Matrox MXO2 for Mac Now Available

Release 1.9 version software for Mac OS is now available to download.

This release includes Matrox Vetura Playback, a new application on the Mac for convenient playback of H.264 and .mov files using any of the Matrox MXO2 I/O devices.

Field journalists equipped with a Matrox MXO2 device that includes the Matrox MAX H.264 encoding accelerator can shoot and edit their stories, then quickly encode to a very high quality H.264 file faster than realtime. Via any internet connection, the small H.264 file can be efficiently uploaded to headquarters then ingested to a video server or played directly to air using another MXO2 device and the Matrox Vetura Playback application.

The new Vetura Playback application lets broadcasters leverage the power of Matrox MAX H.264 encoding acceleration to deliver breaking news stories to air in HD faster than ever before. Matrox gives them the tools they need to scoop their competition.

Release 1.9 provides the following new features for Matrox MXO2, MXO2 Rack, MXO2 LE products:

•	New Matrox Vetura Playback application.
•	Now supports up to 16 audio channels on SDI input/output instead of eight audio channels.
•	Closed captioning capture and playback is now achieved using SDI audio track 16 instead of audio track eight with the patent-pending Matrox 4VANC method.
•	Now supports AFD (active format description) data for capture, edit, and playback. AFD data capture and playback is achieved using SDI audio track 15 with the Matrox 4VANC method.
•	Core audio support.
•	Updates to address specific customer issues and to improve overall stability.

Release 1.9 provides the following new features for Matrox MXO2 Mini:

•	New Matrox Vetura Playback application.
•	Core audio support.
•	Updates to address specific customer issues and to improve overall stability.

Release 1.9 provides the following new features for Matrox CompressHD:

•	Updates to address specific customer issues and to improve overall stability.