intoPIX and Lawo jointly announced that several new Lawo products will be natively JPEG XS-compliant thanks to Lawo’s adoption of the intoPIX TicoXS codec. Support for the lossless JPEG XS compression technology in HD, 3G and UHD video-format resolutions will allow users of Lawo’s new HOME-managed Apps, which run on standard servers, to encode, process and decode compressed IP streams.

Lawo says its aim is to provide broadcasters with the ability to encode and decode compressed streams as and when required in order to accelerate high-quality distributed content creation. JPEG XS support is built into the HOME Apps — Multiviewer, UDX conversion with HDR processing and Stream Transcoder.

JPEG XS delivers broadcast-grade compression ratios of up to 10:1. intoPIX says this makes it ideal for WAN-based IP networks where bandwidth is typically limited, while the number of camera feeds and video streams keeps rising. It also says “JPEG XS (ISO/IEC 21122) provides visually lossless quality with sub-millisecond (<1 video frame) delay and is designed for latency-critical applications, such as live remote event productions over wide-area networks.”