January 10, 2008

Breeze, Light, Standard and Professional editions, version 5.5

Breeze, Multiple Stream Media Processor, is a software tool operating with streams of video, audio and pictures. It may play, record, convert, replay back and forth video sequences, view and edit images, operates media devices within local computer, via local intra net and the Internet.

Breeze supports 100+ video, audio and image formats including AVI, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, VOB, WMV, ASF, FLV, SWF, MOV, DV, H.264, DivX, XviD, OOV, MP3, WMA, WAV, JPEG, JPEG-2000, PNG, GIF, TIFF, BMP, 50+ YUV / YCbCr formats

This version of Breeze works with Windows 2000 / XP / Vista.

The minimum hardware requirements to the computer are the following:

• CPU: Pentium III or higher
• RAM: 128 Mbytes or more

Current version of Breeze has been tested on x86 platforms with up to:

• CPU: total, 4 processors or / and cores, running at the frequencies up to 3.8 GHz
• RAM: 16 gigabytes.

It is IMPORTANT to remember that CPU and RAM resources required for processing video or graphics depend on a structure and complexity of the processed video data. Usually most important are size of picture frame, level of video compression, frame rate of video sequences and number of simultaneously processed video streams.

For example, size of QCIF picture is 176 x 144 = 25344 pixels. Size of HDTV 1080p video picture is 1920 x 1080 = 2073600 pixels, or about 80 time bigger than size of QCIF picture. Often it means that processing HDTV 1080p picture will require about 80 times more computations than processing of QCIF picture.

Breeze has been tested for processing of pictures with the size up to 6000 x 3000 pixels, or about 10 times bigger than HDTV 1080p (about 1000 times bigger than QCIF).

Usually encoding and /or decoding of highly compressed video or graphics requires a big CPU power. Fast reversible replaying of video sequences (instant playback) is done usually via storing a big number of frames in RAM. It may require a big quantity of RAM, up to 2 gigabytes and more.

Breeze essentially is a multiple stream processor. On the computers equipped with multiple processors (with single or multiple cores), Breeze may process data in multiple threads, utilizing all CPU resources.

As a result, in the case of most demanding tasks, if it is required by the complexity of job, Breeze may utilize all CPU and RAM resources available at the computer.

Multiple processor / core computer configurations are highly recommended when Breeze is used for playing two or more video sequences simultaneously. This is especially important for playing a high definition video, and when big magnification of video images (up to 10x), “Picture In Picture” or “Picture From Picture” are used.

Windows Vista has introduced restrictive user control over the programs requesting a permission to run on the computer. It is done via the UAC (User Account Control). When you start Breeze for the very first time after installation, do it with administrator permissions. Right-click Breeze link, and then click item “Run As Administrator” in the pop up menu.

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