Trident Introduces TMVP9550, Industry's First TrueVideo Hardware MPEG-1 Video Coprocessor For PCs; Low Cost Integrated MPEG-1 Video Decoder/Scaler Provides Full-Screen Display Using Trident's Proprietary Edge-Smoothing Hardware Algorithm.MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 5, 1995--Trident Microsystems today introduced the first fully-integrated video coprocessor that provides MPEG-1 decoding, full-screen video scaling and direct PC bus interfaces in a single integrated circuit. Trident's new TMVP TMVP Tamileela Makkal Viduthalai Pulikal (Sri Lanka) 9550 video coprocessor includes TrueVideo, Trident's image recovery hardware that delivers video image quality nearly equivalent to that of broadcast television. MPEG (Moving Pictures Experts Group) An ISO/ITU standard for compressing digital video. Pronounced "em-peg," it is the universal standard for digital terrestrial, cable and satellite TV, DVDs and digital video recorders (DVRs). playback PC boards or daughter-card subsystems that incorporate Trident's TrueVideo TMVP9550 device can have direct PCI/ISA interfaces and can also be connected directly to either the VESA advanced feature connector A VESA standard point-to-point channel used to transfer video signals between two video controllers, typically between the display adapter and a video capture or TV board. The Advanced Feature Connector (VAFC) increases the original feature connector from 8 to 32 bits and from 40 to 150 (VAFC See VESA Advanced Feature Connector. ) or the IBM standard feature connector (FC). For a complete PCI (1) (Payment Card Industry) See PCI DSS. (2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). solution, designers need to add only 512KB of DRAM and a software MPEG audio decoder MPEG Audio Decoder (MAD) is a GPL library to decode files that have been encoded with an MPEG audio codec, produced by Underbit Technologies. It consists of libmad, a software library, and madplay, a command-line program for MP3 playback. , which can be purchased from Trident. Trident developed TrueVideo to fully restore the picture quality of MPEG-1 images. Its proprietary edge recovery/interpolation logic virtually eliminates jagged edges, blockiness, and other video artifacts that often result during playback of scaled MPEG-1 video images. As a result, the TMVP9550 device delivers superior video quality in resolutions as high as 1024x768 and up to 75 Hz refresh rates. Mike Raghavan, multimedia and desktop graphics marketing manager at Trident, said, "TrueVideo will set the industry standard by which video quality for all PC MPEG-1 and video solutions will be judged." The TMVP9550 video coprocessor has an industry-standard MPEG-1 compliant hardware core that decodes MPEG-1 video bit streams in real time. It uses the CL450 MPEG-1 decoder core under license from C-Cube Microsystems (announced in a Trident press release on October 10, 1994). The decoder also provides hardware support for audio synchronization of external audio decoders. Trident's TMVP9550 video coprocessor supports a wide range of industry-standard formats, including Video CD 1.1/2.0, Karaoke CD 1.0, Windows`95 Direct Draw, Plug `n Play and CDI. The TMVP9550 device also has drivers that support Windows MCI (1) (Media Control Interface) A high-level programming interface from Microsoft and IBM for controlling multimedia devices. It provides commands and functions to open, play and close the device. (2) (Microwave Communications Inc. , DOS, RealMagic and Open MPEG (OM1) specifications. The TMVP9550 video coprocessor costs $39 in quantities of 10,000 or more and is available in sample quantities in September 1995. The TMVP9550 device comes with evaluation and reference design kits for PCI and ISA MPEG and MPEG/TV board designs. Trident Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :TRID TRID Training Requirement Identification Display TRID Transaction Identifier TRID Trident Display ), headquartered in Mountain View, Calif., designs, develops and markets integrated circuit graphics controllers and multimedia video processing chipsets for IBM- compatible PCs. Trident products are sold through a network of original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), original design manufacturers (ODMs) and system integrators worldwide. -0- Note to Editors: Trident and TMVP9550 are trademarks of Trident Microsystems, Inc. TrueVideo is a registered trademark of Trident Microsystems, Inc. Other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. CONTACT: Trident Microsystems Inc. Mike Raghavan, 415/691-9211 or Tsantes & Associates Nancy Sheffield, 408/452-8700 |
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