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34-460: The GPU wars between ATI and NVIDIA have resulted in GPUs with ever-increasing processing power since early 2000s. To parallel this increase in speed and power, both GPU makers needed to increase video quality as well, in 3D graphics applications the focus in increasing quality has mainly fallen on anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering . However it has dawned upon both companies that video quality on

68-544: A "mercenary for hire", was created by ATI to promote some of its products. Computer-animated videos produced by RhinoFX about Ruby on a mission (being a sniper, saboteur, hacker and so on) appeared at large technology shows such as CeBIT and CES . Although AMD strongly considered making the functional part of the ATI drivers "open source", before the merger with AMD, ATI had no plans to release their graphics drivers as free software: Proprietary, patented optimizations are part of

102-449: A series of technologies for developers, for various service-providers and for end users: The MPEG-4 format can perform various functions, among which might be the following: MPEG-4 provides a large and rich set of tools for encoding. Subsets of the MPEG-4 tool sets have been provided for use in specific applications. These subsets, called 'Profiles', limit the size of the tool set a decoder

136-669: A single chip, which would become a popular option on computers in the following years, especially lower cost models. In 2010, AMD ceased using the ATI brand name, renaming its flagship Radeon graphics processor products with its branding instead. Lee Ka Lau, Francis Lau, Benny Lau, and Kwok Yuen Ho founded ATI in 1985 as Array Technology Inc. Working primarily in the OEM field, ATI produced integrated graphics cards for PC manufacturers such as IBM and Commodore . By 1987, ATI had grown into an independent graphics-card retailer, introducing EGA Wonder and VGA Wonder card product lines that year. In

170-429: A specific set of capabilities to be defined in a manner appropriate for a subset of applications. Initially, MPEG-4 was aimed primarily at low- bit-rate video communications; however, its scope as a multimedia coding standard was later expanded. MPEG-4 is efficient across a variety of bit rates ranging from a few kilobits per second to tens of megabits per second. MPEG-4 provides the following functions: MPEG-4 provides

204-559: Is now also available for use with HD 4800 and HD 4600 series graphics cards and is included with the Catalyst 8.12 drivers. Support for Vista x64 is available via a separate download starting with Catalyst 9.6 (9-6_vista32-64_xcode). The new software is faster than Badaboom, an encoder that uses NVIDIA's CUDA to accelerate encoding, but has a higher CPU utilization than Badaboom. One review reported visual problems with iPod and WMV playback using Catalyst version 8.12, and although concluding there

238-571: Is required to implement. In order to restrict computational complexity, one or more 'Levels' are set for each Profile. A Profile and Level combination allows: MPEG-4 consists of several standards—termed "parts"—including the following (each part covers a certain aspect of the whole specification): Profiles are also defined within the individual "parts", so an implementation of a part is ordinarily not an implementation of an entire part. MPEG-1 , MPEG-2 , MPEG-7 and MPEG-21 are other suites of MPEG standards. MPEG-4 contains patented technologies,

272-562: Is the ATI Avivo HD, which consists of several parts: integrated 5.1 surround sound HDMI audio controller, dual integrated HDCP encryption key for each DVI port (to reduce license costs), the Theater 200 chip for VIVO capabilities, the Xilleon chip for TV overscan and underscan correction, the Theater 200 chip as well as the originally-presented ATI Avivo Video Converter . However, most of

306-712: The Flipper graphics chip used in the GameCube video game console. They also created a modified version of the chip (codenamed Hollywood ) for the successor of the GameCube, the Wii . Microsoft contracted ATI to design the graphics core (codenamed Xenos ) for the Xbox 360 . Later in 2005, ATI acquired Terayon's cable modem silicon intellectual property , strengthening their lead in the consumer digital television market. K. Y. Ho remained as Chairman of

340-630: The Intel Core and Intel Core 2 processors, the D101GGC and D101GGC2 chipset (codenamed " Grand County " ) based on the Radeon Xpress 200 chipset. However, high-end boards with integrated graphics processor (IGP) still used Intel GMA integrated graphics processors . The deal with Intel ended with the purchase of ATI by AMD in 2006, with Intel announcing SiS IGP chipset (D201GLY chipset, codenamed " Little Valley ") for entry-level desktop platform, replacing

374-487: The manufacturing and assembly of its products. With the decline and eventual bankruptcy of 3dfx in 2000, ATI and its chief rival Nvidia emerged as the two dominant players in the graphics processors industry, eventually forcing other manufacturers into niche roles. The acquisition of ATI in 2006 was important to AMD's strategic development of its Fusion series of computer processors , which integrated general processing abilities with graphics processing functions within

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408-428: The x264 encoder, Nero Digital AVC, QuickTime 7, Flash Video , and high-definition video media like Blu-ray Disc ). Most of the features included in MPEG-4 are left to individual developers to decide whether or not to implement. This means that there are probably no complete implementations of the entire MPEG-4 set of standards. To deal with this, the standard includes the concept of "profiles" and "levels", allowing

442-569: The " Grand County " series chipsets. Besides full products, ATI also supplied 3D and 2D graphics components to other vendors, specifically the Qualcomm MSM7000 series SoC chips of handheld and upcoming Freescale i. MX processors ATI claimed in May 2006, that it had sold over 100 million 'cell phone media co-processors', significantly more than ATI's rival NVIDIA, and announced in February 2007, that

476-699: The AMD Graphics Product Group (GPG), and ATI's CEO Dave Orton became the Executive Vice President of Visual and Media Businesses at AMD until his resignation in 2007. The top-level management was reorganized with the Senior Vice President and General Manager, and the Senior Vice President and General Manager of Consumer Electronics Group, both of whom would report to the CEO of AMD. On 30 August 2010, John Trikola announced that AMD would retire

510-446: The ATI brand for its graphics chipsets in favour of the AMD name. In addition to developing high-end GPUs (originally called a VPU, visual processing unit, by ATI) for PCs and Apple Macs, ATI also designed embedded versions for laptops (Mobility Radeon), PDAs and mobile phones ( Imageon ), integrated motherboards (Radeon IGP), and others. "Ruby", a fictional female character described as

544-561: The Board until he retired in November 2005. Dave Orton replaced him as the President and CEO of the organization. On July 24, 2006, a joint announcement revealed that AMD would acquire ATI in a deal valued at $ 5.6 billion. The acquisition consideration closed on October 25, 2006, and included over $ 2 billion financed from a loan and 56 million shares of AMD stock. ATI's operations became part of

578-519: The CPU for transcoding, but have been locked for exclusive use with the ATI X1000 series of GPUs. Software modifications have made it possible to use version 1.12 of converter on a wider range of graphics adapters. The ATI Avivo Video Converter for Windows Vista was available with the release of Catalyst 7.9 (September 2007 release, version 8.411). The ATI Avivo Video Converter with GPU transcoding acceleration

612-668: The GPU core capable of surround sound output eliminates the need for S/PDIF connection from motherboard or sound card to the video card, for synchronous video and audio output via HDMI cable. The Radeon HD 2900 series lacked the UVD feature, but still was given the ATI Avivo HD label. ATI has also released a transcoder software dubbed "ATI Avivo Video Converter", which supports transcoding between H.264, VC-1, WMV 9, WMV9 PMC , MPEG-2, MPEG-4 , DivX video formats, as well as formats used in iPod and PSP . Earlier versions of this software uses only

646-449: The PC would need improvement as well and the current APIs provided by both companies have not seen many improvements over a few generations of GPUs. Therefore, ATI decided to revamp its GPU's video processing capability with ATI Avivo, in order to compete with NVIDIA PureVideo API. In the time of release of the latest generation Radeon HD series, the successor, the ATI Avivo HD was announced, and

680-947: The early nineties, they released products able to process graphics without the CPU: in May 1991, the Mach8, in 1992 the Mach32, which offered improved memory bandwidth and GUI acceleration. ATI Technologies Inc. went public in 1993, with shares listed on NASDAQ and on the Toronto Stock Exchange . In 1994, the Mach64 accelerator debuted, powering the Graphics Xpression and Graphics Pro Turbo, offering hardware support for YUV -to- RGB colour space conversion in addition to hardware zoom; early techniques of hardware-based video acceleration. ATI introduced its first combination of 2D and 3D accelerator under

714-523: The firm had shipped a total of 200 million of Imageon products since 2003. After the AMD acquisition, the Imageon and Xilleon were sold off to Qualcomm and Broadcom , respectively. 43°50′20″N 79°22′48″W  /  43.83889°N 79.38000°W  / 43.83889; -79.38000 MPEG-4 MPEG-4 is a group of international standards for the compression of digital audio and visual data, multimedia systems, and file storage formats. It

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748-552: The important hardware decoding functions of ATI Avivo HD are provided by the accompanied Unified Video Decoder ( UVD ) and the Advanced Video Processor (AVP) which supports hardware decoding of H.264 /AVC and VC-1 videos (and included bitstream processing/entropy decoding which was absent in last generation ATI Avivo). For MPEG-1 , MPEG-2 , and MPEG-4 / DivX videos, motion compensation and iDCT (inverse discrete cosine transform) will be done instead. The AVP retrieves

782-655: The name 3D Rage . This chip was based on the Mach 64, but it featured elemental 3D acceleration. The ATI Rage line powered almost the entire range of ATI graphics products. In particular, the Rage Pro was one of the first viable 2D-plus-3D alternatives to 3dfx 's 3D-only Voodoo chipset. 3D acceleration in the Rage line advanced from the basic functionality within the initial 3D Rage to a more advanced DirectX 6.0 accelerator in 1999 Rage 128 . The All-in-Wonder product line, introduced in 1996,

816-775: The source, automatically adjust its brightness and contrast. ATI Avivo implements 12-bit transform to reduce data loss during conversion; it also utilizes motion adaptive 3D comb filter, automatic color control, automatic gain control, hardware noise reduction and edge enhancement technologies for better video playback quality. In decoding, the GPU core supports hardware decoding of H.264, VC-1, WMV9, and MPEG-2 videos to lower CPU utilization (the bitstream processing/entropy decoding still requires CPU processing). ATI Avivo supports vector adaptive de-interlacing and video scaling to reduce jaggies , and spatial/temporal dithering, which attempts to simulate 10-bit color quality on 8-bit and 6-bit displays during process stage. The successor of ATI Avivo

850-513: The use of which requires licensing in countries that acknowledge software algorithm patents . Over two dozen companies claim to have patents covering MPEG-4. MPEG LA licenses patents required for MPEG-4 Part 2 Visual from a wide range of companies (audio is licensed separately) and lists all of its licensors and licensees on the site. New licenses for MPEG-4 System patents are under development and no new licenses are being offered while holders of its old MPEG-4 Systems license are still covered under

884-511: The value we provide to our customers and we have no plans to release these drivers to open source. In addition, multimedia elements such as content protection must not, by their very nature, be allowed to go open source. In addition to the above chipset, ATI struck a deal in 2005, with CPU and motherboard manufacturers, particularly Asus and Intel , to create onboard 3D Graphics solutions for Intel 's range of motherboards released with their range of Intel Pentium M -based desktop processors,

918-474: The video from memory; handles scaling, de-interlacing and colour correction ; and writes it back to memory. The AVP also uses 12-bit transform to reduce data loss during conversion, same as previous generation ATI Avivo. HDMI supports the transfer of video together with 8-channel 96 kHz 24-bit digital audio (and optionally Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio streams for external decoding by AV receivers, since HDMI 1.3). Integration of an audio controller in

952-511: Was developed by a group led by Touradj Ebrahimi (later the JPEG president) and Fernando Pereira. MPEG-4 absorbs many of the features of MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 and other related standards, adding new features such as (extended) VRML support for 3D rendering, object-oriented composite files (including audio, video and VRML objects), support for externally specified digital rights management and various types of interactivity. AAC (Advanced Audio Coding)

986-593: Was no clear winners, if forced to choose would go with the Avivo converter. ATI Technologies ATI Technologies Inc. was a Canadian semiconductor technology corporation based in Markham, Ontario , that specialized in the development of graphics processing units and chipsets . Founded in 1985, the company listed publicly in 1993 and was acquired by AMD in 2006. As a major fabless semiconductor company , ATI conducted research and development in-house and outsourced

1020-557: Was originally introduced in late 1998 as a group of audio and video coding formats and related technology agreed upon by the ISO/IEC Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) ( ISO/IEC JTC 1 /SC29/WG11) under the formal standard ISO/IEC 14496 – Coding of audio-visual objects . Uses of MPEG-4 include compression of audiovisual data for Internet video and CD distribution, voice ( telephone , videophone ) and broadcast television applications. The MPEG-4 standard

1054-518: Was presented on every Radeon HD 2600 and 2400 video cards to be available July, 2007 after NVIDIA announced similar hardware acceleration solution, PureVideo HD . In 2011 Avivo is renamed to AMD Media Codec Package , an optional component of the AMD Catalyst software. The last version is released in August 2012. As of 2013, the package is no longer offered by AMD. During capturing, ATI Avivo amplifies

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1088-547: Was standardized as an adjunct to MPEG-2 (as Part 1) before MPEG-4 was issued. MPEG-4 is still an evolving standard and is divided into a number of parts. Companies promoting MPEG-4 compatibility do not always clearly state which "part" level compatibility they are referring to. The key parts to be aware of are MPEG-4 Part 2 (including Advanced Simple Profile, used by codecs such as DivX , Xvid , Nero Digital , RealMedia , 3ivx , H.263 and by QuickTime 6) and MPEG-4 part 10 (MPEG-4 AVC/ H.264 or Advanced Video Coding, used by

1122-808: Was the first combination of integrated graphics chip with TV tuner card and the first chip that enabled display of computer graphics on a TV set. The cards featured 3D acceleration powered by ATI's 3D Rage II , 64-bit 2D performance, TV-quality video acceleration, analogue video capture, TV tuner functionality, flicker-free TV-out and stereo TV audio reception. ATI entered the mobile computing sector by introducing 3D-graphics acceleration to laptops in 1996. The Mobility product line had to meet requirements different from those of desktop PCs, such as minimized power usage, reduced heat output, TMDS output capabilities for laptop screens, and maximized integration. In 1997, ATI acquired Tseng Labs 's graphics assets, which included 40 engineers. The Radeon line of graphics products

1156-441: Was unveiled in 2000. The initial Radeon graphics processing unit offered an all-new design with DirectX 7.0 3D acceleration, video acceleration, and 2D acceleration. Technology developed for a specific Radeon generation could be built in varying levels of features and performance in order to provide products suited for the entire market range, from high-end to budget to mobile versions. In 2000, ATI acquired ArtX , which engineered

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