The powerful Stradis VMD-6444 Multichannel Decoder card is a 4-channel H.264/HD AVC decoder over HDMI with output resolution of up to 1080p30 per channel. It is designed to meet the needs of the digital signage market for advertising, entertainment, museum/exhibit, and hospitality applications.

Stradis VMD-6444 features simultaneous H.264 hardware decoding of video clips up to HP@L4.1 with maximum bit-rate of 62.5Mbit/s. Several decoders may be installed in one PC, simplifying deployment of multi-channel HD video system and resulting in very low costs per channel. HDMI output resolutions ranging from SD to 1080p ensure full compatibility with a wide variety of video monitors, TVs and projectors. Stradis VMD-6444 synchronizes decoding across video channels and supports 32-bit graphic overlay with adjustable transparency and blending effects for a total multi-media display solution.

The SDK API for Stradis VMD-6444 is based on previous generations of Vitec/Focus /Visual Circuits decoder cards to ease upgrades from Gemini and Harmony cards.

• - HD/SD H.264 with support for MP4 and MPEG-2 transport stream containers 
• - 4 x HDMI 1.3 outputs with resolution up to 1080p30 and embedded audio
• - Cross-channel decoding synchronization
• - Seamless frame accurate playback
• - Overlay (OSD) with alpha blending (256 levels), Genlock
• - SDK similar to Harmony 4ES and Gemini decoders for easy upgrade