FastVDO Inc, formally doing business as FastVideo LLC and FastVDO LLC, is developing advanced audio/video capture & encoding technology for image processing and video compression to support rich communications at a variety of bandwidths. The cornerstone of FastVDO is their compression technology supporting ITU/H.264 and ISO/MPEG-4 Advanced Video Coding standard. H.264/AVC compression standard for video and AAC for audio compression is gaining popularity due to their high quality and low data rates. The firm has developed SmartCapture Pro, a USB based capture and H.264/AAC encoder hardware that allows live streaming. SmartCapture Pro captures NTSC or PAL video and analog stereo audio (L/R), digitizes and compresses the video/audio data using H.264/AAC encoding to deliver high quality multimedia with low bit rates.