Software-based transcoding will operate on any hardware configuration supported by the Zixi Broadcaster, including on-premise hardware and cloud-based hardware and on X86-64 and ARM64 processors, but excluding currently excluding MacOS. Although software-based transcoding offers lower density than NVIDIA GPU based transcoding, it is the most flexible from a hardware compatibility perspective.

Software-based transcoding offers the following features:

	*Format*	Chroma Subsampling	*Color Depth*
*Video Decode*	MPEG-2	4:2:0	8-bit
	H.264/AVC	4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4	8-bit, 10-bit
	H.265/HEVC	4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4	8-bit, 10-bit
*Video Encode*	MPEG-2	4:2:0	8-bit
*Video Encode*	H.264/AVC	4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4	8-bit, 10-bit*

* Input stream must be 10-bit

Video Decoding:
- Frame Size: SD, HD (720p), Full HD (1080p), 4K (2160p)
- Frame Rate: 24fps, 25fps, 29.97fps, 30fps, 59.94fps, 60fps
Video Encoding:
- Frame Size: SD, HD (720p), Full HD (1080p)
- Frame Rate: 24fps, 25fps, 29.97fps, 30fps, 59.94fps, 60fps

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