Re: Looking for AVI animations..

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From: Michael Simmons - mgmt_staff
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 03:13

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bryanw@rahul.net (Bryan Woodworth) writes:

> Still, they show the technology off fairly well.  I am wondering how other
> people have been able to view the AVIs.  I am on a 386/25 machine, and the
> anims are only shown in a 160x120 window, fairly small.  Is this normal?  I
> have an ATI Graphics Ultra Plus, which supposedly has RLE decompression
> onboard and is supposed to spiff up animation.
> 
> I have noticed the fluidity of motion, and cannot say if it would be less
> impressive without the ATI installed (I would rather not take it out..).

I emailed ATI about the speed of the Graphics Ultra Plus when playing
AVI files and got the following response:

>ATI will be relasing special video drivers to support VIdeo for Windows in
>the next few weeks. Your present configuration of drivers does not
>provide any advantage to video, but you will notice a great difference
>once these new drivers are installed and use the hardware assisted image
>scaling and direct color modes.

>Regards,

>Allan Nelson,
>ATI Customer Support

Note: I had mentioned that I had the Build 53 drivers

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Date: 26 Jan 1993 03:13:31 GMT
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