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plip.gif (846 bytes) Performance in top tier of 2D graphics cards
plip.gif (846 bytes) Full DOS and Windows 95 GUI acceleration through Microsoft GDI and DirectDraw™ APIs
plip.gif (846 bytes) VGA register level compatibility
plip.gif (846 bytes) Full Bit BLT acceleration engine including transparent BLTs, device bitmaps, full 256 ternary ROPs and pattern buffering
plip.gif (846 bytes) Full GUI acceleration of 2-point line draws and polygon fills
plip.gif (846 bytes) Fully accelerated YUV conversion, scaling, filtering and clipping
plip.gif (846 bytes) X and Y interpolation of YUV surfaces
plip.gif (846 bytes) Full text acceleration engine
plip.gif (846 bytes) VESA BIOS Extensions (VBE) 2.0, UniVBE,VESA
plip.gif (846 bytes) Display Power Management Signaling (DPMS)
plip.gif (846 bytes) Support for all standard display modes and refresh rates

1600 x 1200 x 18-bit color @60-85 Hz
1280 x 1024 x 24-bit color @60-85 Hz
1024 x 768 x 24-bit color @60-120 Hz
800 x 600 x 24-bit color @60-160 Hz
640 x 480 x 24-bit color @60-200 Hz

plip.gif (846 bytes) Performance in top tier of 3D graphics cards
plip.gif (846 bytes) Full support of Microsoft Direct3D™ API
plip.gif (846 bytes) 500 MFLOP engine supports up to 1M triangles/sec
plip.gif (846 bytes) Dedicated texture cache
plip.gif (846 bytes) Complete 3D primitive support
plip.gif (846 bytes) Perspective-corrected texture mapping
plip.gif (846 bytes) Chroma-key transparency
plip.gif (846 bytes) Bi-linear, tri-linear mipmapped texture filtering
plip.gif (846 bytes) Diffuse and specular lighting
plip.gif (846 bytes) Full transparency, including alpha maps for textures
plip.gif (846 bytes) 18-bit Z-buffering
plip.gif (846 bytes) Full screen & window double buffering
plip.gif (846 bytes) Edge anti-aliasing
plip.gif (846 bytes) Flat and Gouraud shading & Dithering
plip.gif (846 bytes) Depth cueing with atmospheric effects (e.g. fog )
plip.gif (846 bytes) Full alpha blending support
plip.gif (846 bytes) Sub-pixel accurate rendering
plip.gif (846 bytes) 3D Display Modes

640 x 480 x 16-bit color @60-200 Hz
800 x 600 x 16-bit color @60-160 Hz
1024 x 768 x 16-bit color @60-120 Hz

DVD Video DVD Special Features
plip.gif (846 bytes) Fully compliant MPEG-2 video playback, Main Profile at Main Level at 30 frames per second @ maximum DVD bit-rate
plip.gif (846 bytes) 720 x 480/576 full-screen native resolution playback for artifact-and distortion-free playback
plip.gif (846 bytes) Dynamic, high-quality scaling screen size, allowing image to be arbitrarily scaled
plip.gif (846 bytes) Advanced de-interlacing prior to PC display to eliminate jagged lines and motion artifacts
plip.gif (846 bytes) VBR (variable bit rate) and CBR (constant bit rate)
plip.gif (846 bytes) IEEE 1180-compliant Inverse Discrete Cosine Transform (IDCT) to ensure crisp picture quality with minimal noiseExact motion compensation for artifact-free playback
plip.gif (846 bytes) Fully accelerated colorspace conversion, bilinear interpolation and filtering
plip.gif (846 bytes) Component and S-Video output
plip.gif (846 bytes) 16:9 wide screen and standard 4:3 display
plip.gif (846 bytes) Pan & Scan display
plip.gif (846 bytes) Still-picture MPEG-2 I-frame display
plip.gif (846 bytes) MPEG-1 video playback
plip.gif (846 bytes) Video CD 2.0 playback and navigation
plip.gif (846 bytes) CSS (Content Scrambling System) license for playback of encrypted content
plip.gif (846 bytes) Regional lockout support
plip.gif (846 bytes) Up to 32 sub-picture streams for subtitles, menus, and animation
plip.gif (846 bytes) Full-screen, run-length-encoded bitmaps up to 4 contrast values and 4 colors per pixel
plip.gif (846 bytes) Multi-language support for video scenes, audio tracks, subtitle tracks, and menus
plip.gif (846 bytes) Multi-story, multi-rating support (auto-matic "seamless" branching of video)
plip.gif (846 bytes) Multi-camera-angle support
plip.gif (846 bytes) Parental lock
plip.gif (846 bytes) Fast forward, rewind, and search to title, chapter or track
plip.gif (846 bytes) Frame by frame advance
plip.gif (846 bytes) Macrovision™ analog copy protection support
plip.gif (846 bytes) DirectShow support
plip.gif (846 bytes) MicroUDF format support™
Audio Features DVD Audio
plip.gif (846 bytes) AudioStorm3D™ positional audio supporting DirectSound3D
plip.gif (846 bytes) Mpact Fort�™ advanced wavetable synthesizer
- 64 simultaneous hardware-accelerated voices
- 8MB 16-bit sample set developed by Synclavier
- 324 instruments and 11drum kits
- General MIDI and Roland GS compatible
- System exclusive messages
- Very low-noise, high accuracy digital interpolation
- 16-part fully multi-timbral
- Four layers of any voice type for each instrument, with separate control of level, pan, transposition, delay, and fine tuning
- Key and velocity zoning of PCM samples within a single voice
- Individual control of tuning, loop tuning, level, transpose (e.g. time scaling), and loop mode
- Instruments assignable to MIDI channels or specific keys, with programmable parameters including key and velocity ranges
- MPU-401 emulation (wavetable synthesis in an MS-DOS session under Windows 98)
plip.gif (846 bytes) Full digital mixing (wavein, waveout, FM synthesis, wavetable synthesis, modem, and MPEG audio)
plip.gif (846 bytes) Analog mixing of line in, CD in, and microphone in
plip.gif (846 bytes) Up to 8 simultaneous play and record channels with support for multiple streams of PCM input/output
- 4.4 kHz to 48 kHz
- 8 or 16 bits per sample
- Mono or stereo
- High-quality ACM sample-rate converter
plip.gif (846 bytes) Support for full duplex of multiple streams of PCM input and output
plip.gif (846 bytes) SRS� 3D Sound audio spatialization and SRS TruSurround integration
plip.gif (846 bytes) MPEG-1 (Layer 2) and MPEG-2 (Layer 2) audio decode/encode exposed through ACM and wave devices
plip.gif (846 bytes) Hardware dithered rounding of quantization noise (hardware dither)
plip.gif (846 bytes) Industry standard joystick with MIDI (analog, digital and force feedback joystick)
plip.gif (846 bytes) Industry standard MIDI port
plip.gif (846 bytes) AVsync™ technology: real-time synch. between audio and video
plip.gif (846 bytes) Dolby� Digital (AC-3) 6-channel decode
plip.gif (846 bytes) SRS TruSurround 2-channel analog output with spatial effects
plip.gif (846 bytes) Dolby ProLogic™ Surround Sound-encoded 2-ch. analog output
plip.gif (846 bytes) MPEG-1 layer-II audio decode
plip.gif (846 bytes) Digital audio output (S/PDIF)
plip.gif (846 bytes) 64 kbps to 448 kbps data rate
plip.gif (846 bytes) Audio CD playback
Summary
plip.gif (846 bytes) The Mpact 2 Media Processor solution provides the fast 3D and 2D graphics performance normally found on higher-end gaming machines.

plip.gif (846 bytes) Its hardware-accelerated DVD is ready for the next generation of DVD-ROM based interactive content, and TV-output enables watching a DVD movie on a television.

plip.gif (846 bytes) Dolby Digital surround sound and the Mpact Forte wavetable synthesizer bring games, movies and other interactive titles to life.