The Palo Alto, California-based Miro Computer Products Inc arm of the German company has introduced the miroVideo 12PD, a full-screen, full-motion Windows and video-acceleration personal computer graphics board with software MPEG playback capability. It is based on the new Alliance ProMotion-3210 multimedia graphics accelerator chip and supports full-screen scaling and full-motion video playback for AVI files at 30 frames per second and also includes MPEG playback software. Compatible with all major codec and file formats, the 12PD includes software drivers for Windows 3.1, Windows95 and OS/2. The product is available with 1Mb or 2Mb frame buffer memory, and supports resolutions as high as 1,280 by 1,024 with 256 colours, 1,024 by 768 with 65,000 colours, or 800 by 600 with 16m colours, at 75Hz refresh rate. The miroVideo 12PD is $180 and will be out this month in both VESA and Peripheral Component Interconnect local bus versions.
