Cinegy Resolves H.264 Interlace Encoding Challenge with Latest Cinecoder SDK Update

Cinegy announces the release of a new version of its Cinecoder video codec SDK, solving a fundamental problem for TV and broadcast industries.

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The H.264 interlace video format is globally used for 1080i HDTV transmission via over-the-air, satellite, cable or streaming service providers. The majority of HD broadcasts still use this format even if the adoption of newer codecs and progressive formats is increasing. For years, software developers and solutions vendors have been using NVIDIA GPUs H.264 encoding capabilities, which became a cornerstone of many solutions for the media industry.

With the introduction of the Turing series of GPUs, NVIDIA ended H.264 interlace support. While this initially caused issues, the availability of the previous Pascal generation of NVIDIA cards made it manageable. However, Pascalbased hardware availability has now ended, and these cards no longer receive NVIDIA driver updates, significantly impacting many broadcast workflows.