Spin Digital Video Technologies GmbH Specialists on video codecs Spin-off of the Technical University of Berlin In-house developed software IP & products Based in Germany Innovative B2B company with decades of accumulative research experience >80% of employees are video codec engineers
Next Generation Video SDR HDR Full HD 4K 8K Immersive & Interactive Experience More Sharpness & more Contrast clearer darker & brighter areas UHD Dynamic Range Color Gamut 360 Video Next Generation Video Bit Depth Resolution Frame Frequency More Detail & Higher Field of View 30 fps HD 60 fps 8 bit More Colors 10 bit Better Colors 120 fps Smoother Motion & more details in high motion areas
Data Requirements of Media Applications Data Volume Next generation Ultra High Definition video - Huge spike in data volume Next generation codecs needed SD HD FHD 4K 8K 16K
Video Codecs A video encoder reduces the size of raw video into compressed data A video decoder decompresses data for display Raw video Video Encoder Compressed Video Decoder Decompressed video TV TV VoD web HMD, PC, Smartphones Cinema Cinema Production Transmission / storage Consumption
Products High performance HEVC/H.265 decoder Full-featured media player for 4K & 8K and beyond Leading performance and compression efficiency encoder
HEVC Encoder Relative video file size for same objective quality and encoding speed 160% 158% 4Kp60, 4:2:0, 10bit 4Kp60, 4:4:4, 10bit 143% 8Kp60, 4:2:0, 10bit 8Kp60, 4:4:4, 10bit 134% 129% 122% 117% Higher compression & quality than leading open source encoders Support for 4K, 8K & beyond Fast offline compression Ready for HDR and WCG Features 100% 104% 103% 100% 74% Support for 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 & RGB High bit-depth up to 12-bit High precision pre-processing filters VBR & CBR rate control Support for VR & 360 video 40% x264 (H.264) libvpx (VP9) x265 (H.265) 62% 58% 48% (H.265) Encoder Package FFmpeg transcoder plugin Standalone video encoder SDK for custom applications Windows, Linux, x86, x86-64
Frames per second (fps) HEVC Decoder & Renderer SDK 7680x4320 10-bit Ultra high performance decoder 180 140 100 60 20 2x 0 100 200 300 Bit rate (Mbps) Spin Digital - 420 Spin Digital - 444 OpenHEVC - 420 real-time 2x higher frame rate than competition Significant higher bit rates in real-time than competition Next generation video rendering Real-time 8Kp120 playback Features Support for 4:2:0, 4:2:2,4:4:4 & RGB High bit depth up to 12-bit Efficient pixel formats HDR and WCG technologies Smooth rendering of 4K & 8K video Flexible display configurations GPU and SDI video output Clear and efficient API SDK Package HEVC Decoder, DX12 render engine C/C++ and DirectShow SDKs Platforms: Windows, Linux, x86, x86-64
Frames per second (fps) Media Player Performance comparison of Media Players Media player for 4K & 8K HEVC 300 8K 4K 280 Pure software solution ready for 8K & beyond 200 Features 100 0 60 60 20 15 n/a 0 VLC MPC-HC MPC-BE 60 8Kp120 playback on PC platforms Professional formats: 4:2:2, 4:4:4, RGB Support for HDR and WCG High bit-depth up to 12-bit Multi-device video rendering Media file formats: MP4, MPEG2-TS, MKV Multichannel audio: 5.1, 7.1, 22.2 Streaming: HLS, RTMP Smooth Playback x x 10-bit x x x 22.2 Audio x x x Media Player Package Media player based on Media Player Classic Integrated Spin Digital HEVC Decoder Integrated Spin Digital video render engine Platform: Windows 10
Core Innovation Achieve maximum efficiency by combining expertise in all 3 areas, and years of advanced research Very hard to replicate Video Codec Technology - Video codec experts - Scientific contributions: several publications in the most prestigious journals - IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology - IEEE Transactions on Multimedia Spin Digital Advanced Codec Architecture Computer Architecture - Media Computing Experts - Multi-threading optimization - Optimized SIMD library for modern CPU architectures - Memory architecture optimization Software Engineering - Software Design Experts - Very well designed software architecture - Feature rich API - Easy to use - Powerful - Mid-level abstraction
Licensing End User Free Test Single user Floating LAN Integrator SDK Royalty based Cloud/Server Usage based Unit based
Management Team Mauricio Alvarez-Mesa Alexander Papachristos Chi Ching Chi Sergio Sanz-Rodriguez CEO CFO CTO Senior Researcher PhD MBA MSc PhD Postdoc TU Berlin Researcher - Fraunhofer HHI PhD in Computer Engineering - Polytechnic University of Catalonia Visiting Professor Stints in Private Equity and M&A MBA in Finance - Peking University - Guanghua School of Management PhD Candidate Computer Engineering - TU Berlin MSc in Computer Engineering - TU Delft Postdoc TU Berlin Researcher - Fraunhofer HHI PhD in Multimedia & Communication - Charles III University Madrid