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To: Humblefrank who wrote (42508)	6/30/1999 8:25:00 PM
From: DiViT	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50808

"C-Cube Microsystems has a lot to gain by folks wanting to decode then re-encode-since they make the chips that do the encoding and decoding. Their new DVxpress-MX chip may be the world's first all-digital, mixed format compression chip for MPEG-2 (4:2:2 and 4:2:0) and DV25 (as well as another model that adds DV50) (4:2:2, 4:2:0 and 4:1:1), but in order to do the conversion, the single chip converts the compressed video to digital baseband-with a transcoding latency of seven to eight frames. Dr. Feng-Ming Wang, C-Cube's general manager for the PC/Codec division believes that "the MPEG domain is always limited" and that baseband provides the "least possible problems." Dr. Wang says that the biggest problem is maintaining a compliant MPEG bitstream after the signal is modified without being decoded. "Baseband," he says, "is easy." " From this part of the book: digitaltelevision.com The complete 311 page book online digitaltelevision.com