C-Cube to co-develop advanced PC video applications with Microsoft
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another article, and more to the point than CUBE's release...
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Story posted 10:30 a.m. EST/7:30 a.m., PST, 4/5/99
MILPITAS, Calif. -- C-Cube Microsystems Inc. here today
announced that it is co-developing advanced digital video MPEG
encoding software with Microsoft Corp.
Microsoft Windows hardware engineers will be able to use the
software in conjunction with C-Cube's DVxplore MPEG-2 encoder to
design low-cost MPEG-2 encoding products for consumer PCs.
Applications include digital video editing, digital VCR, and
time-shifting capabilities.
The new applications will be showcased at Microsoft's WinHEC '99
this week in Los Angeles.
"C-Cube's low-cost MPEG-2 encoding technology is helping enable a
new era of video applications," said Carl Stork, general manager of
PC hardware strategy at Microsoft, Redmond, Wash. "We can give
consumers an opportunity to interact with and create high-quality
video on the PC."
For C-Cube's part, "our goal is to make it easier and faster to bring
DVxplore-based products to market,"said Fermi Wang, general
manager of C-Cube's PC/Codec division.
DVxplore is a single-chip MPEG-2 solution that provides digital
recording of TV programs to DVD disc, CD-ROM or a PC hard disk
drive. PC OEMs can also offer simultaneous record and playback,
allowing consumers to pause, rewind and fast-forward live television
broadcasts. |
