What is "CRI Movie "?
CRI Movie 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 Movie 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’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 Movie supports multiple platforms such as the PLAYSTATION®3, Xbox360™, Wii™ and PC.
CRI Movie 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.
CRI Movie’s runtime libraries only perform the decoding process for movies. Utilizing a simple and easy-to-understand API, incorporating them into the file system already in use can be done with ease.
(2) Get rid of “Now-loading”screens
CRI Movie is built with a load balancer to regulate the flow of movie data vs game data. This enables game data to be loaded in the background, while the movie is playing in foreground. The load balancer makes sure the movie doesn't’t skip frames while giving the balance of time to the data loading process.
(3) Multi-lingual functions fully support sub-titles and dynamic center channel
CRI Movie is an ideal movie player for titles that need to support multiple languages.
CRI Movie supports both sub-titles and a dynamic center channel (based on the target language).
This means that it’s no longer necessary to build multiple versions of a movie to target a specific territory.
This saves time, reduces errors and saves disk space.
1. Sub-titles
CRI Movies enables multiple variations of screen caption data to be imbedded in the movie data.
Screen caption displays can be controlled with random IN/OUT specification points. The character code supports UTF-8/UTF-16.
2. Voice Sound
CRI Movies enables multiple variations of dialogue tracks to be imbedded in the movie data.
It is also possible to record 5.1ch BGM tracks in combination with dialogue sound.
(4) User-Friendly Wizard-Driven Encoding Tool
CRI Movie comes equipped with an encoding tool that enables encoding processes to be carried out simply at the professional craftsman level.
Simply specifying the platform, the file size and other conventions with the use of the Wizard interface automatically sets the optimal parameters for these conditions. This eradicates the need for tiresome trial-and-error testing that is usually expected during the encoding process, and enables the highest levels of output to be produced within a minimal amount of time.
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