Nvidia's High-Definition Digital Processing (HDVP) is an
HDTV
High-definition television (HD or HDTV) describes a television system which provides a substantially higher image resolution than the previous generation of technologies. The term has been used since 1936; in more recent times, it refers to the g ...
accelerator on the Geforce 2 GTS. It has a downscalar that supports 1080i and 720p to
SDTV
Standard-definition television (SDTV, SD, often shortened to standard definition) is a television system which uses a resolution that is not considered to be either high or enhanced definition. "Standard" refers to it being the prevailing sp ...
resolution. In combination with a tuner chip it creates an accelerated HDTV viewing system that supports time-shifted recording. The Geforce 2 GTS also includes second generation motion compensation, improved from the motion compensation on the
Geforce 256
The GeForce 256 is the original release in Nvidia's "GeForce" product-line. Announced on August 31, 1999 and released on October 11, 1999, the GeForce 256 improves on its predecessor (RIVA TNT2) by increasing the number of fixed pixel pipelines ...
. It does not seem to include
IDCT acceleration. The HDVP also includes de-interlace acceleration including bob, weave, temporal filter, and advanced de-interlacing. Finally, HDVP supports subpicture compositing, and color enhancements including brightness, hue, contrast, and saturation. nVidia's HDVP would endure through the
GeForce 4 Series in the Geforce 4 Ti NV25.
[http://www.activewin.com/reviews/hardware/graphics/nvidia/gf4ti4600/gf3.shtml]
See also
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GeForce 256's Motion Compensation
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Video Processing Engine nVidia introduced the Video Processing Engine or VPE with the GeForce 4 MX. It is a feature of nVidia's GeForce graphics processor line that offers dedicated hardware to offload parts of the MPEG2 decoding and encoding. The GeForce Go FX 5700 roll ...
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PureVideo
PureVideo is Nvidia's hardware SIP core that performs video decoding. PureVideo is integrated into some of the Nvidia GPUs, and it supports hardware decoding of multiple video codec standards: MPEG-2, VC-1, H.264, HEVC, and AV1. PureVideo occupie ...
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DirectX Video Acceleration (DxVA) API for
Microsoft Windows
Windows is a group of several proprietary graphical operating system families developed and marketed by Microsoft. Each family caters to a certain sector of the computing industry. For example, Windows NT for consumers, Windows Server for serv ...
operating-system.
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VDPAU (Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix) from Nvidia
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X-Video Motion Compensation (XvMC) API for Linux/UNIX operating-system.
References
External links
* http://www.digital-digest.com/dvd/software/players/powerdvd/pdvd255_new.txt
* http://www.orpheuscomputing.com/downloads2/GeForce_HDVP_brief.pdf
* http://www.angelfire.com/ultra/slambammin/Video_Card_Investigations.pdf
* ftp://ftp.uni-duisburg.de/Hardware/Nvidia/.../geforce2_mx_overvw.pdf
* http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/full-review-nvidia,204.html
* http://www.necdriver.com/nec-driver/NVIDIA-GeForce2-Go-Video-Driver-For-Versa-P440_478.html
* http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=116466&p=irol-newsArticle_print&ID=89139&highlight=
* http://cnnfn.cnn.com/2000/04/25/technology/nvidia/
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