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Indeo Video (commonly known now simply as "Indeo") is a video codec developed by Intel in 1992. A video Codec is a device or Software that enables Video compression and/or decompression for digital video It was sold to Ligos Corporation in 2000. While its original version was related to Intel's DVI video stream format, a hardware-only codec for the compression of television-quality video onto compact disks, Indeo was distinguished by being one of the first codecs allowing full-speed video playback without using hardware acceleration. See Digital Visual Interface for the current video hardware connector

During the development of what became the Pentium microprocessor, Intel's Architecture Lab implemented one of the first, and at the time highest-quality, software-only video codecs, which was marketed as "Indeo Video". The Pentium brand refers to Intel 's single-core x86 Microprocessor based on the P5 fifth-generation Microarchitecture. Intel Architecture Labs, also known as IAL, was the Personal Computer system research and development arm of Intel Corporation during the 1990s At its public introduction, it was the only video codec supported in both the Microsoft (Video for Windows) and Apple Computer's QuickTime software environments, as well as by IBM's software systems of the day. Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational Computer technology Corporation, which rose to dominate the Home computer Video for Windows (VfW also referred to as Video Compression Manager (VCM was a Multimedia framework developed by Microsoft that allowed Microsoft Windows Apple Inc, ( formerly Apple Computer Inc, is an American Multinational corporation with a focus on designing and manufacturing Consumer electronics QuickTime is a Multimedia framework developed by Apple Inc, capable of handling various formats of Digital video, Media clips sound text

The original Indeo codec was highly asymmetrical, meaning that it took much more computation to encode a video stream than to decode it. Intel's ProShare video conferencing system took advantage of this, using hardware acceleration to encode the stream (and thus requiring an add-in card), but allowing the stream to be displayed on any personal computer.

Intel produced several different versions of the codec between 1993 and 2000, when it was sold to Ligos, based on very different underlying mathematics and having different features. Indeo Video Interactive, a wavelet-based codec[1] that included novel features such as chroma-keyed transparency and hot spot support, was aimed at video game developers. Chroma Key is the name under which ex- Dream Theater Keyboardist Kevin Moore records

Though Indeo saw significant usage in the mid-1990s, it remained proprietary. The word proprietary indicates that a party or proprietor exercises private Ownership, control or use over an item of Property. Intel slowed development and stopped active marketing, and it was quickly surpassed in popularity by the rise of MPEG codecs and others, as processors became more powerful and its optimization for Intel's chips less important. The Moving Picture Experts Group, commonly referred to as simply MPEG, is a Working group of ISO / IEC charged with the development of video and Indeo still sees some use in video game cutscene videos. A video game is a Game that involves interaction with a User interface to generate visual feedback on a video device. A cut scene is a sequence in a Video game over which the player has little or no control often breaking up the gameplay and used to advance the plot present

Official Indeo 5 decoders exist for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS Classic, BeOS R5 and the XAnim player on Unix. Microsoft Windows is a series of Software Operating systems and Graphical user interfaces produced by Microsoft. Mac OS is the trademarked name for a series of Graphical user interface -based Operating systems developed by Apple Inc BeOS R5 is the final version of BeOS from Be Inc. It was released in March 2000, and came in two varieties Professional XAnim is a proprietary media player for Unix originally developed by Mark Podlipec Unix (officially trademarked as UNIX, sometimes also written as Unix with Small caps) is a computer The Ligos Indeo Codecs package is available to buy from the official website. This includes support for Indeo versions 4. 5 and 5, as well as the Intel Audio 2. 5 codecs. Versions 2 and 3 have decoders in FFmpeg. FFmpeg is a computer program that can record convert and stream digital audio and Video in numerous formats Indeo version 4 and 5 are not supported by any open source decoders. Open source is a development methodology which offers practical accessibility to a product's source (goods and knowledge

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