CRI Middleware, Inc.

CRI Movie2 is CRI's next-generation movie playback engine. With unrivaled movie quality, support for all next-gen platforms and hi-def movie playback via a component-based architecture.

CRI Movie2 is the next-generation of CRI's award winning codec, Sofdec. It contains a compliment of leading-edge technologies that are indispensable to achieving high-def resolutions (especially on multi-core systems). Contrary to conventional encoding methods, CRI Movie2 retains high-frequency visual elements used to reproduce quality and the sense of space inherent with next-gen CG based movies.

Encoding movies with wavelet based codecs results in quality saturation when the bit rate exceeds a threshold level. Therefore, increasing bitrate beyond a certain point doesn't improve picture quality and wastes bandwidth. With the old-school codec's the quality levels don't scale with bitrate. However, with CRI Movie, the quality linearly improves with bitrate. Now there's a easy solution to reducing common high-def video noise : mosquito, mach-band or otherwise, and increase image quality.

CRI Movie2 supports multiple platforms such as the PLAYSTATION®3, Xbox360™, Wii™ and PC. CRI Movie2 is optimized for each platform with hand-tuned assembly and multi-core support to bring out the best of each platform's capabilities. Power to spare - Using its multi-core architecture CRI Movie has the power to simultaneously decode two full HD resolution movies.