The Alma Technologies H264-BP-E IP Core is an advanced H.264 hardware only encoder that conforms to the ITU-T H.264 Constrained Baseline Profile. The core is also available in ALL-Intra encoding configuration (H264-BPI-E) and supports the real time encoding of video streams up to Profile Level 5.2.

The encoder accepts the uncompressed video data in planar, interleaved, or macroblock scan format. It outputs standalone, standard compliant, Annex B NAL byte stream. No post processing on the output stream, other than (for example) stroring, muxing or transmitting, is required. The output NAL byte stream can be decoded, as is, by any ITU-T H.264 compliant decoder that satisfies the Level requirements of the stream and conforms to the Constrained Baseline, or higher, ITU-T H.264 Profile.