Envivio Encoding French Open in 4K

Envivio (NASDAQ:ENVI) is participating in the live 4K telecast of this year's French Open, continuing through June 7. Envivio is encoding the UltraHD HEVC video; and in a first-time partnership with Dolby, is encoding an audio signal in Dolby AC4. The 4K telecast of the matches will be available for all French households equipped with 4K TV sets.

The 4K video will be encoded at 50 frames per second using Envivio Muse UltraHD encoding software on Envivio G5 appliances. Muse UltraHD is designed to encode up to 4K video resolution in up to 60 frames per second, offers a larger color range with the new BT 2020 standard and can be encoded in eight or 10 bits.