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- From: ag129@cl.cam.ac.uk (Alasdair Grant)
- Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
- Subject: What is DVI, exactly?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug26.084327.25048@cl.cam.ac.uk>
- Date: 26 Aug 92 08:43:27 GMT
- Sender: news@cl.cam.ac.uk (The news facility)
- Reply-To: ag129@cl.cam.ac.uk (Alasdair Grant)
- Organization: U of Cambridge Comp Lab, UK
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- I always assumed DVI was a particular compression technology developed
- by RCA (being the first technology that could play FMV from input at
- CD-ROM speeds) then bought by Intel, who put a couple of chips on a
- board to implement this algorithm. Then I read
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- > From: teoallan@hpsgm2.sgp.hp.com (Allan TEO)
- >This chip was supposed to be the successor to the PB/DB silicon on the current
- >AM-II boards, and would have made DVI processing fast and powerful enough to
- >do real time MPEG decompression, Px64, PLV X.X,,RTV X.X, as well as a whole
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- "DVI processing" "doing real time MPEG decompression"??? What exactly does
- this mean? Is DVI now just another name for the ActionMedia II boards, or
- is it some code name for "IBM/Intel's strategic multimedia hardware"?
- Please help...
-