Gamasutra - News - "ATI to Support Microsoft's New DirectX VA API" [11.08.00]

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ATI to Support Microsoft's New DirectX VA API

ATI announced it will be supporting Microsoft's new DirectX Video Acceleration Application Programming Interface (DirectX VA) across ATI's entire current product line of graphics chips, mobile components and graphics, video and multimedia accelerator boards.

Microsoft expects the DirectX VA will open up the video-on-the-PC market significantly, as software developers can now write programs for DirectX VA instead of having to write for the specific API of each graphics/video card vendor. DirectX VA, the equivalent of the Microsoft Direct3D API for games, provides DVD and MPEG software decoder vendors with an open programming interface for the MPEG hardware acceleration that is integrated into ASICs, such as ATI's RADEON chip.

ATI integrates iDCT, Motion Compensation, and subpicture into its ASICs. As such, ATI's implementation of DirectX VA will open up its iDCT, Motion Compensation, and subpicture technology to software MPEG decoder developers.

ATI, straddling both OEM and retail markets, will support DirectX VA on RAGE MOBILITY, MOBILITY 128 and the next generation of MOBILITY chips, as well as RAGE 128, RAGE 128 PRO and RADEON desktop graphics chips.

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