Video delivery solutions provider Sencore has introduced a new range of features and functionality for its contribution decoding services, the company announced Sept. 9.

   Sencore said it is demonstrating new encoding and decoding technology at the IBC conference to achieve higher levels of video quality with the H.264 codec and to overcome the latency issues that have previously kept H.264 from serving as an encoding choice for contribution. 

   The demonstration also will highlight Sencore’s implementation of H.264’s 10-bit color depth capability, according to Sencore spokesman Thomas Stingley.

   “Because most of the steps in the broadcast chain degrade quality, the ability to leverage 4:2:2 chroma sampling can ensure maximum quality early in the chain. By maintaining deep color through the broadcast path, encoders in the broadcast chain are able to perform more accurate, higher quality encodes. For the first time, our tools can make H.264 a viable codec for contribution through a combination of low latency and bandwidth savings,” Stingley said in a statement.