The STi5211 is a low-cost HDTV satellite set-top box decoder that supports Microsoft VC-1, H.264, and MPEG-2 formats. The product features a high-performance ST40-300 CPU for Linux, Windows CE, and OS21 based systems. It integrates DVB-S2 and DVB-S front-end demodulators with a fully-featured SD advanced decoder SoC. The decoder includes a flexible ST231 based advanced video decoder and a 450 MHz ST231 audio decoder supporting WMA9, AC3, DD+, AAC, and AAC+ formats with SPDIF output. The SD display supports 2 video, 3 graphics planes, and background color with high-quality filtering. It also includes HDMI/HDCP output, SD component and composite output. The product has a unified DDR2 16-bit interface operating at up to 333 MHz, a programmable transport interface (PTI), and transport stream (TS) merger with multiple digital external TS inputs, internal inputs from internal demodulators, and a TS input from memory for network client. Other features include USB 2.0 support, external memory interface (EMI) with Nand-Flash, Nor-Flash, PCI, peripherals support, 10/100 Mbit/s Ethernet MAC with MII and RMII, advanced security compliant with SVP and WM DRM, dual smartcard, UART, synchronous serial controllers (SSC), soft modem and DAA interface, IR blaster and receiver, UHF Rx digital input, DiSEqC 2.0, and F
The STi5211 is a standard definition, full back-end processor for satellite set-top boxes compliant with ATSC, SMPTE VC-1, DVB-S2, DIRECTV, DCI, and ARIB BS4 specifications. It provides very high performance for low-cost SD systems and includes both VC-1 and H.264 video decoders for new, low bitrate applications.
The main platform target for the STi5211 is the DVB-S2 zapper. Alternatively, the device can be used in a client box through IP over Ethernet, Multimedia over Coax Alliance (MoCA), or WiFi.
| Video Codecs | Microsoft VC-1, H.264 and MPEG-2 |
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| Package | 27 x 27 mm |
The STi5211 supports Microsoft VC-1, H.264, and MPEG-2 video decoding.