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- From: msimmons@ec.uwa.oz.au (Michael Simmons - mgmt_staff)
- Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
- Subject: Re: Looking for AVI animations..
- Date: 26 Jan 1993 03:13:31 GMT
- Organization: The University of Western Australia
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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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