Area served Worldwide Headquarters Tomsk Type of business Private | Website www.elecard.com Founded 22 April 1988 | |
Industry Codecs, IPTV
Computer software
Computer hardware
Consumer electronics
Digital distribution Founder Andrey Posdnyakov
Peter Gubanov
Vladimir Kalchikhin Key people Chairman: Andrey Posdnyakov
CEO: Victor Shirshin Subsidiaries Triaxes Vision
Elecard-Med
Solveig Multimedia | ||
Elecard is a technology company that provides software products for video and audio encoding, decoding, processing, receiving and transmission.
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Its line of products includes commercial and professional encoders and decoders for most video and audio standards, including H.264 video compression.
Elecard, founded in 1988, has its headquarters in Tomsk, Russia, and an office in Foster City, California.
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According to the results of 2010 MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 Video Codec Comparison carried out through Moscow State University Compression Project, Elecard AVC Encoder demonstrated the fastest encoding speed and high picture quality, ranking 5th (and last among the tested H.264 encoders) in the overall codecs comparison results. However, next year, in the same comparison of 2011, Elecard AVC Encoder made it to the third place behind x264 and DivX Plus HD in the overall rating of software video codecs.
Elecard was recognized as the “Russian Innovation Leader” at the "New Electronics in Russia" forum in 2009.