ViVo: ATI vs. Video Formats

[Kitros]

It seems there is a difference in terminology between industry standards.

To the streamers and producers, ViVo is a compressed format that is easily streamed even from a 28.8k modem. The quality is crud, but it werks...

To ATI, ViVo mean Videoin/Videoout... basically describing their I/O's.

So, is there no correlation between the 2? Why did they confuse us like that?

 

[Adul]

Because most of us aren't away that ViVo is an is a compressed format that is easily streamed even from a 28.8k modem. And marketing had something to do with it.

 

[Kitros]

I'm sorry adul, that just confused the hell outta me, could you rephrase?

 

[nam ng]

It is no more than the same of people who had terminology for FSAA all mixed-up, no longger knowing the simple differerence of Supersampling and Multisampling.

 

[Kitros]

It's never a simple yes or no with you darned geeks, is it? j/k


Thanks all.

 

[CQuinn]

AFAIR ATI is not the only company that uses Vivo as an abbreviation for Video-In/Video-Out.
They have been using the term since the Rage Fury days, so it has been in use with that
meaning for years now.

The term was either in use before Vivo Active created the ViVo file format,
or the company did not make thier term widespread enough to cover common usage.

I don't even think vivo is around anymore, if you try to go to www.vivo.com, you get
re-routed to http://www.real.com/vivo/index.html. Apparently the vivo technology was
incorporated into Real Player now. The site also says that development on vivo
stopped back in 1997.

Most people who are familiar with both terms tell them apart by the context they are
used in. Also, IIRC, vivo files are saved with a .VIV extension, and are often
referred to as viv files or "dot viv" files.

There are a few other common terms used differently between industry segments:
IDE means one thing to Hard Drive makers, and something else to programmers.
RAD is short for Radical, and also for Rapid Application Development.

If a company does not get and exclusive trademark on a term, or if the term was in
common enough use, or an abbreviation that can have more than one common meaning -
then you can expect that there will be more than one use for the term.

 

[Kitros]

Why thank you for the descriptive description...

This was all spawned from a guy telling me that his ViVo Radeon was hardware enhanced and could decode vivo(.viv) a lot faster than a gf2/3 without it...

I told him that it was just referring to the I/O's, but in the back of my mind, something didin't seem right.

Glad I got it cleared up!