Complete Software

DVD Decoder

No Compromise DVD
For Your PC

M ediamatics’ DVDExpress is the industry’s first fully DirectShow® compliant software DVD
player for today’s Entertainment PC. The combination of true consumer-quality audio and video
performance and DirectShow® compatibility makes DVDExpress the ideal solution for low-cost,
no-compromise DVD playback on the PC. DVDExpress offers complete flexibility in system design
by working with a variety of MMX®, SSE®, or 3DNOW!TM enabled CPUs, accelerated graphics
controllers, DVD drives and operating systems. The DVDExpress software easily integrates with the
available hardware components to provide the highest quality and performance in every solution.

System Features • Designed for Microsoft® Windows® 95,

Windows 98, NT 4.0, and Windows 2000
High performance, full software DVD player • Provides flexibility to system designers
for the PC without system restrictions
• Supports DVD, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, VideoCD • Enables DVD playback across the entire
and Super VCD formats price range of PCs
• DirectShow compatible
• CSS enabled for Hollywood movie Supports multiple graphics controller
playback architectures
• Decodes: • Current video accelerated graphics
- MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 video streams controllers
- Sub-picture streams • MPEG-2 accelerated graphics controllers:
- AC-3 (Dolby Digital®), MPEG-1, MPEG-2, - Motion compensation
and MP3 audio streams - MVCCA (patented Mediamatics’ motion
TM

• Dolby® Certified compensation architecture)

• Microsoft® Certified
• True consumer-quality audio and video
playback
• Significantly reduces cost of enabling PCs
with DVD capability
• Backwards compatible to MCI
command set
• Optimized for MMX, SSE, and 3DNOW!
instruction sets
Flexible design provides wider range of
DVD-enabled PCs
• Works with multiple CPUs, graphics
controllers, and DVD drives
- IDCT
• DirectX interface to graphics controllers
• Outputs data in field and frame modes
• Proprietary de-interlacing algorithms
for reduction of motion effect on
VGA monitors
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48430 Lakeview Blvd., Fremont, CA 94538
Tel: 510-668-4850 Fax: 510-668-4860
E-mail: sales@mediamatics.com
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 DVDExpress System Architecture
Win95/98/2K and NT4.0
Video Decode Filters
• Decodes MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 video streams
• Full compliance with ISO 11172 (MPEG-1), Mediamatics GUI Full Software MS Video

CSS
Video
Mediamatics/MS
ISO 13818 (MPEG-2), MP@ML (DVD) Decoder Overlay Mixer Renderer

• Supports:
- NTSC and PAL formats DVD
- Interlaced and progressive frames Mediamatics Full Software

CSS
- Closed caption data Navigator
Subpicture
Decoder
- Multiple language audio streams MS Closed
Caption
Decoder
Sub-picture Decode Filters Full Software

CSS
Audio 3-D Audio MS Audio
• Full sub-picture decoding Decoder Renderer
- Text and graphics overlay DVDExpress

Audio Decode Filters

• Decodes AC-3, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, and MP3
audio streams
• Full compliance with ISO 11172, ISO 13818
MPEG audio standards
• Decodes all 5.1 AC-3 audio channels
• Dolby certified
• Sampling rates from 11KHz to 48KHz
• Playback rates up to 48KHz Splitter
• Multiple audio streams support (up to 8) • Available for non-DVD file playback
• 2 channel output for: • Separates program streams into audio, video
- Stereo speakers and sub-picture streams
- Pro-Logic (Dolby Surround Sound)
• 5.1 channel output for: Content Scrambling System (CSS)
- 6 channel audio cards
• CSS software support for playback of
- 4 channel audio cards
Hollywood movies or other encrypted
• Support for 3-D Audio (from 3rd party)
content
• Tamper resistant
Mediamatics Navigator • Supports six regional codes
• Mediamatics Navigator: • Licensed from IBM Microelectronics
- Enables the DVD 1.0 standard interactive
features such as multiple language Internationalization
control and camera angles
• Currently translated into 24 languages:
- Validates DVD content through a key
Arabic, Chinese “Simplified”, Chinese
authentication and exchange system
“Traditional”, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English,
- Provides region coding support
Finnish, French, French-Canadian, German,
• Plug-and-Play installation
Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean,
• Perfect audio/video synchronization
Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese “Brazilian”,
• MCI backward compatibility
Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Thai,
• Enhanced audio support – DTS
and Turkish
• Superior title compatibility
• Full navigational test disc compliance
• VCD/SVCD/CVD support

GUI
• User interface for playback of DVDs,
VideoCD, SuperVCD and audio CDs
A National Semiconductor Corporation
• Friendly look and feel
48430 Lakeview Blvd., Fremont, CA 94538
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