The H.264 encoding has tremendous advantages that make it the best suited compression standard for security applications. It offers high image quality on top of low bit rate and low storage requirement.

Euresys is proud to launch a four video inputs capture and H.264 compression board targeting mobile video-surveillance applications. This board also features high-quality audio capabilities.

Each video input simultaneously delivers a compressed and an uncompressed video stream leading to a total of 8 video streams delivered. The compressed video stream may be recorded or transmitted while uncompressed one is typically used for local display or video analytics. Both streams are independently configurable.

Thanks to a high resistance to extreme temperatures, shocks, vibrations and humidity, the Picolo U4 H.264 PCI-104 is particularly well suited for embedded security systems for rail and road transportation, police vehicles equipment or any mobile or outdoor video-surveillance application. The ruggedized characteristics of the board also target the video-surveillance systems installed in extreme industrial environments.

The Picolo U4 H.264 PCI-104 is a PCI-104 board and implements, for system integration, 8 general-purpose I/O lines, an on-board watchdog and a pass-through buffered video output with cascade capability.

To operate the Picolo U4 H.264 PCI-104, a DirectShow filters interfaces for Windows and a Virtual File System driver for Linux either in 32- or 64-bit are provided.