Hannover, Germany; CeBIT — (press release excerpt) — Sharp Corp. and PacketVideo Corp. today announced a licensing agreement to integrate PacketVideo's industry-leading wireless multimedia delivery technology into Sharp's recently developed Linux-based wireless devices. Detailed terms were not disclosed under the royalty-bearing licensing agreement, but Sharp will embed PVPlayer, PacketVideo's multimedia decoding software product, into Sharp's new Linux-based wireless personal digital assistants (PDAs), prepared as an attractive option for wireless network operators. PVPlayer enables consumers to view high quality wireless multimedia applications such as news, sports highlights, traffic reports and live video viewing on mobile devices, with full-motion video and audio.

PacketVideo's PVPlayer is a component of PVPlatform, an MPEG-4 compliant, end-to-end system that enables wireless operators, device and silicon manufacturers, and content providers to deliver multimedia over existing and next generation wireless networks.

One of the most significant recent enhancements to PVPlatform is FrameTrack, a dynamic rate control technology developed by PacketVideo. FrameTrack provides uninterrupted video and audio streaming at the best possible quality in error-prone wireless networks with varying bit rates. PVServer, PacketVideo's server software, uses FrameTrack to adjust the frame rate automatically for individual subscribers based on video quality information detected by PVPlayer in real time.

 
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