ATI Avivo
Developer(s) | ATI |
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Initial release | 2005 |
Website | ati |
ATI Avivo is a set of hardware and low level software features present on the
Background
The GPU wars between
In the time of release of the latest generation
In 2011 Avivo is renamed to AMD Media Codec Package,
Features
ATI Avivo
During capturing, ATI Avivo amplifies 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
ATI Avivo HD
The successor of ATI Avivo is the ATI Avivo HD, which consists of several parts: integrated 5.1 surround sound HDMI audio controller, dual integrated
However, most of the important hardware decoding functions of ATI Avivo HD are provided by the accompanied
The AVP retrieves the video from memory; handles scaling, de-interlacing and
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 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
ATI Avivo Video Converter
ATI has also released a transcoder software dubbed "ATI Avivo Video Converter", which supports transcoding between H.264, VC-1,
The ATI Avivo Video Converter with GPU transcoding acceleration 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 was no clear winners, if forced to choose would go with the Avivo converter.[4]
Software support
- ArcSoft TotalMedia Theatre
- Corel WinDVD
- Media Player Classic Home Cinema
- MediaPortal
- Cyberlink PowerDVD
- Microsoft Windows Vista internal MPEG-2 decoder
- Nero
- All AMD Catalyst9.1 or newer)
See also
- Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
- Video Coding Engine (VCE)
References
- ^ "AMD Technology Glossary". AMD. Retrieved 2013-11-01.
- ^ "Previous AMD Display Drivers". AMD. Retrieved 2013-11-01.
- ^ "Rage3D thread". Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2007-04-13.
- ^ "PC Perspective - Battle of GPU Transcoders: ATI Avivo Converter and NVIDIA Elemental Badaboom". Archived from the original on 2008-12-16. Retrieved 2009-01-20.