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To: DiViT who wrote (29167)	2/6/1998 3:26:00 PM
From: John Rieman	Respond to of 50808

Video/MPEG....................................... onlineinc.com Ephyx Technologies, Inc. made available a second version of V-Active for RealVideo. The latest video authoring tool brings full interactivity to streaming video for all-in-one content creation. (888/463-7499; ephyx.com) Interra, Inc. began shipping DProbe, a DVD analysis and compliance tool that builds on its MProbe tool for comprehensive DVD quality control. DProbe analyzes DVD data streams-including MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 audio and video and AC-3 audio-and checks them for compliance with the DVD 1.0 standard. (408/573-1400; interrainc.com) Minerva Systems, Inc. announced the availability of Minerva Publisher 300, a video and audio encoder for DVD-Video and DVD-ROM applications. The latest addition to the company's Publisher line includes multipass VBR software, configures to a range of MPEG compression requirements, and ships with Minerva Studio 4.3, which captures and plays linear pulse code modulation (PCM) audio files. (408/487-2001; minervasys.com) Sony Semiconductor Co. of America introduced the CXD1922Q, a real-time MPEG-2 video encoder chip for DVD authoring, multimedia presentation, and high-quality editing projects. The chip is based on a 0.4-micron CMOS process and loaded with 4.5 million transistors to offer a horizontal search range of -288 to +297.5 pixels and a vertical search range of -96 to +95.5 pixels. (800/228-7669; sony.com VITEC MULTIMEDIA, Inc. debuted VIDEO Clip MPEG-2, a software solution for cut-and-paste editing of MPEG-2 program files within Windows 95 and NT platforms. The product replaces the old method of re-encoding from the original analog video. (408/752-8483; vitecmm.com)

To: DiViT who wrote (29167)	2/6/1998 3:34:00 PM
From: John Rieman	Respond to of 50808

Toshiba and Windows 98................................ onlineinc.com NEWS BRIEFS Toshiba DVD Reference Design Is Supported in Windows 98 Beta Release As part of an effort to bring the superior attributes of DVD to the Microsoft Windows 98 operating system, Toshiba Corporation has helped Microsoft build support for DVD navigation, and is providing Microsoft with a DVD decoder minidriver, player application, and DirectShow-based sample code. Toshiba hardware is being used to provide DVD support that will appear in the Beta 3.0 release of Windows 98. The new Windows release provides an end-to-end architecture for DVD that includes a DVD-ROM device driver, UDF file system, DVD navigation and playback applications, a WDM-based streaming architecture, and support in the DirectX set of APIs. In addition to providing support for DVD-Video titles, Windows 98 supports a new breed of highly interactive titles based on the DirectX Media and the DirectShow DVD APIs. Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. calls its contribution the industry's first DVD reference design to feature native support in Windows 98. Toshiba's reference design is based on its Timpani I single-chip DVD system processor for DVD playback on the PC. Timpani I integrates functions such as MPEG-2 video decoding and video mixing, hardware-based copy protection processing, DVD program stream parsing, sub-picture decoding, and a digital video port, as well as audio/video interfaces and a PCI interface. Toshiba's Timpani I is supported through Microsoft's Windows 98 WDM streaming class driver. VPE support, a software interface for video ports, is integrated to enable decoded DVD video streams to run directly to the video card to eliminate the need to go through the PCI bus. The complete software stack for the Timpani I chip is embedded within the Windows 98 Beta 3.0 infrastructure. This enables Toshiba's PC OEM customers to plug the Timpani I-based boards onto a Windows 98 PC platform and expect it to work immediately. Sample pricing for Toshiba's Timpani I is less than $40 in quantities of 1,000 units. The reference board is available now and is priced at $250. (Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc., 1060 Rincon Circle, San Jose, CA 95131; 800/879-4963; toshiba.com)