| 2D Graphics | 3D Graphics |
 Performance in top tier of 2D graphics cards Full DOS and Windows 95 GUI acceleration through Microsoft GDI and
DirectDraw™ APIs VGA register level compatibility Full Bit BLT acceleration engine including transparent BLTs, device
bitmaps, full 256 ternary ROPs and pattern buffering Full GUI acceleration of 2-point line draws and polygon fills Fully accelerated YUV conversion, scaling, filtering and clipping X and Y interpolation of YUV surfaces Full text acceleration engine VESA BIOS Extensions (VBE) 2.0, UniVBE,VESA Display Power Management Signaling (DPMS) Support for all standard display modes and refresh rates
1600 x 1200 x 18-bit color @60-85 Hz |
Performance in top tier of 3D
graphics cards Full support of Microsoft Direct3D™ API 500 MFLOP engine supports up to 1M triangles/sec Dedicated texture cache Complete 3D primitive support Perspective-corrected texture mapping Chroma-key transparency Bi-linear, tri-linear mipmapped texture filtering Diffuse and specular lighting Full transparency, including alpha maps for textures 18-bit Z-buffering Full screen & window double buffering Edge anti-aliasing Flat and Gouraud shading & Dithering Depth cueing with atmospheric effects (e.g. fog ) Full alpha blending support Sub-pixel accurate rendering 3D Display Modes 640
x 480 x 16-bit color @60-200 Hz |
| DVD Video | DVD Special Features |
| Fully compliant MPEG-2 video
playback, Main Profile at Main Level at 30 frames per second @ maximum DVD bit-rate 720 x 480/576 full-screen native resolution playback for
artifact-and distortion-free playback Dynamic, high-quality scaling screen size, allowing image to be
arbitrarily scaled Advanced de-interlacing prior to PC display to eliminate jagged
lines and motion artifacts VBR (variable bit rate) and CBR (constant bit rate) IEEE 1180-compliant Inverse Discrete Cosine Transform (IDCT) to
ensure crisp picture quality with minimal noiseExact motion compensation for artifact-free
playback Fully accelerated colorspace conversion, bilinear interpolation and
filtering Component and S-Video output 16:9 wide screen and standard 4:3 display Pan & Scan display Still-picture MPEG-2 I-frame display MPEG-1 video playback Video CD 2.0 playback and navigation |
CSS (Content Scrambling System)
license for playback of encrypted content Regional lockout support Up to 32 sub-picture streams for subtitles, menus, and animation Full-screen, run-length-encoded bitmaps up to 4 contrast values and
4 colors per pixel Multi-language support for video scenes, audio tracks, subtitle
tracks, and menus Multi-story, multi-rating support (auto-matic "seamless"
branching of video) Multi-camera-angle support Parental lock Fast forward, rewind, and search to title, chapter or track Frame by frame advance Macrovision™ analog copy protection support DirectShow support MicroUDF format support™ |
| Audio Features | DVD Audio |
| AudioStorm3D™
positional audio supporting DirectSound3D Mpact Forté™ 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) Full digital mixing (wavein, waveout, FM synthesis, wavetable synthesis, modem,
and MPEG audio) Analog mixing of line in, CD in, and microphone in 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 Support for full duplex of multiple streams of PCM input and output SRS® 3D Sound audio spatialization and SRS TruSurround integration MPEG-1 (Layer 2) and MPEG-2 (Layer 2) audio decode/encode exposed through ACM and
wave devices Hardware dithered rounding of quantization noise (hardware dither) Industry standard joystick with MIDI (analog, digital and force feedback
joystick) Industry standard MIDI port |
AVsync™ technology: real-time
synch. between audio and video Dolby® Digital (AC-3) 6-channel decode SRS TruSurround 2-channel analog output with spatial effects Dolby ProLogic™ Surround Sound-encoded 2-ch. analog output MPEG-1 layer-II audio decode Digital audio output (S/PDIF) 64 kbps to 448 kbps data rate Audio CD playback |
| Summary | |
| The Mpact 2 Media Processor solution provides the fast 3D and 2D
graphics performance normally found on higher-end gaming machines.
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