Video Programming

The ATI Radeon™ allows you to add high quality Full Motion Video (FMV) sequences into your games and applications through standard interfaces such as DirectShow® (formerly ActiveMovie). DirectShow® seamlessly integrates video into your application and allows you to use a wide variety of different FMV file formats (such as AVI, MPEG or Quicktime) without having to write special code for each file type.

The Microsoft DirectX® SDK contains additional information on using DirectX® to add FMV to your application.

2D Programming

The ATI Radeon™ supports a full host of 2D functions, including all 256 ROP3 functions (as detailed in the Windows® 3.1 DDK), and extensive DirectDraw® support in both Windows® 9x and Windows NT®.

Here are the DirectDraw® CAPS supported by the Radeon™ DirectDraw® Caps Bits:

• 3D (not available in NT 4.0)
• BLT
• BLTQUEUE
• BLTSTRETCH
• GDI (not available in NT 4.0)
• OVERLAY
• OVERLAYFOURCC
• OVERLAYSTRETCH
• COLORKEY
• BLTCOLORFILL
• BLTDEPTHFILL

DirectDraw® Surface Caps Bits:

• FLIP
• MIPMAP (not available in NT 4.0)
• OFFSCREENPLAIN
• OVERLAY
• PRIMARYSURFACE
• TEXTURE (not available in NT 4.0)
• ZBUFFER (not available in NT 4.0)

DirectDraw® Color Key Caps Bits:

• DESTBLT
• DESTOVERLAY
• SRCBLT
• SRCOVERLAY

DirectDraw® FX Caps Bits:

• BLTSTRETCHX
• BLTSTRETCHY
• OVERLAYSHRINKX
• OVERLAYSHRINKY
• OVERLAYSTRETCHX
• OVERLAYSTRETCHY

DirectDraw® FourCC Formats:

• YUY2
• UYVY
• YV12
• YVU9
• IF09
• VBID

DirectDraw® Video Port Caps:

• DDCAPS2_VIDEOPORT (not available in NT 4.0)
• DDCAPS_VIDEOPORT (not available in NT 4.0)
• AUTOFLIPOVERLAY (not available in NT 4.0)
• MaxVideoPorts (not available in NT 4.0)