GoMotion

GoMotionLigos’ GoMotion® is an award winning SDK providing real-time MPEG codecs for consumer desktop video application developers. GoMotion is a set of flexible, scalable software codecs for MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 that deliver premium quality video on Windows-based PCs - without the need for expensive compression hardware. Now installed on millions of desktops worldwide, GoMotion has become one of the single most popular solutions for software-based MPEG applications in the Consumer and Desktop Video application markets.

Available through the Ligos Partner Program, the GoMotion SDKs provide desktop video application developers the ability to add MPEG features to Windows-based digital media applications on an as-needed basis. Everything is provided in a comprehensively documented SDK, and a sample application is supplied to demonstrate the usage of the GoMotion API, including source code for an encoder filter.

To evaluate and receive information about licensing GoMotion, please complete To evaluate and and get information about licensing GoMotion, please complete the Partner Program Registration Form. For immediate information about evaluating and licensing GoMotion, please contact OEM Sales by email at sdk@ligos.com, or call Hans-Peter Riecken at 888-464-8765 ext. 110 or 415-249-0100 ext.110 between 9am and 5pm Pacific Time.


GoMotion MPEG Software Development Kit (SDK)

The latest version (6.2) of the GoMotion MPEG SDK includes faster than real-time MPEG-1 (ISO-11172) and MPEG-2 (ISO-13818) codecs for encoding and transcoding. GoMotion.MPG is highly scalable, and provides image quality that surpasses other software solutions. Includes special features that make it perfectly suited for DVD, VideoCD and Super VideoCD applications.

To evaluate and and get information about licensing GoMotion, please complete the Partner Program Registration Form.


GoMotion Technical Specifications

GoMotion Codecs Now Available

  • MPEG-1 (ISO/IEC 11172) system and elementary streams
  • MPEG-2 (ISO/IEC 13818) program and elementary streams
  • MPEG-2 from Main Profile/Low Level to Main Profile/Main Level
  • MPEG Layer II audio streams

High-Quality, High Performance Features

  • Best Solution for DVD authoring applications - GoMotion has been built with all of the must-have features that make it the best MPEG-2 encoder available for DVD authoring applications. In terms of compliance, quality, speed and ease-of-integration, nothing comes close to GoMotion
  • Faster than real-time transcoding - with motion estimation control for balance between image quality and performance
  • Scene Detection - with automated and manual I frame insertion options
  • Flexible bit-rate control - options for variable bit rate (VBR) and constant bit rate (CBR) encoding
  • Adaptive Quantization - ensures highest quality encoding, especially for troublesome areas

Other Full Feature Solutions

  • MPEG-1, MPEG-2 Decoder - Built on the Intel Media Processing Library (MPL), including the full MPL API
  • Special MPEG Formats - Support for compliant MPEG-1 for VideoCD, MPEG-2 for Super VideoCD and DVD-Video applications, and the MPEG-4 MP4 file format
  • Operates on the complete range of modern processors from AMD and Intel. MMX, SSE, and/or SSE-2 instructions are supported (MPEG-4 requires SSE and/or SSE2)

GoMotion SDK Components

  • GoMotion API and DLLs, with versions optimized for MMX, PIII SSE and P4 SSE-2 or compatible architectures
  • Documentation for GoMotion API
  • GoMotion Sample Transcoder Filter Source Code demonstrating API implementation
  • Sample Transcoder Application Source Code implementing the Sample Transcoder Filter
  • GoMotion Decoders (video decoder, audio decoder, and splitter filters to allow MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 playback to be incorporated into applications)
  • Other SDKs provide additional components based on the required functionality

System Requirements

  • Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows 2000, Windows XP
  • Microsoft DirectX 8.0 SDK (or greater) and Run-Time
  • Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 SP4 or greater
  • Minimum Processor requirements:
    1. MPEG-1, MPEG-2 - Intel PII, PIII, P4 processor, or AMD Athlon
    2. MPEG-4 - Intel PIII, P4 processor, or AMD Athlon
  • 64MB RAM (128MB Recommended)
  • 16 Bit Color or higher
  • Video adapter should be AGP w/ minimum of 8MB RAM
  • FAT32 or NTFS partition

To evaluate and receive information about licensing GoMotion, please complete To evaluate and and get information about licensing GoMotion, please complete the Partner Program Registration Form.