Fujitsu improves latency in its H.264 encoders

New versions of Fujitsu's IP-9610, IP-920, and IP-900 encoders significantly reduce audio and video delay in satellite, broadcast, and IP applications.

Fujitsu has just announced that the new firmware of its H.264 encoders/decoders IP-9610, IP-920, and IP-900 will allow you to drastically reduce the end-to-end latency without reducing the image quality at the same time as reducing the bit rate.

Ideal for satellite, broadcast and IP contribution applications, these H.264 encoders now allow operation below 99 milliseconds, ensuring a clean interaction between the studio and the contribution location.

Richard Harvey, product manager at Fujitsu Network Media Solutions, has highlighted that "connection delay often causes live interviews to not flow as they should, making them less natural. To prevent this, Fujitsu encoders were able to achieve about 300 milliseconds of back-to-back latency. With a typical satellite propagation delay of 270 milliseconds, a send would take approximately 570 milliseconds, on the edge of acceptable. "This new technology further improves and minimizes end-to-end latency, which will allow broadcasters and other content providers to cost-effectively deliver professional, superior video quality content to viewers."