Video1
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Microsoft Video 1 or MS-CRAM is an early video compression and decompression algorithm (codec
) that was released with version 1.0 of Microsoft's Video for Windows
in November 1992. It is based on MotiVE, a vector quantization
codec which Microsoft licensed from Media Vision.
In 1993, Media Vision marketed the Pro Movie Spectrum, an ISA board that captured video in both raw and MSV1 formats (the MSV1 processing was done in hardware on the board).
Codec
A codec is a device or computer program capable of encoding or decoding a digital data stream or signal. The word codec is a portmanteau of "compressor-decompressor" or, more commonly, "coder-decoder"...
) that was released with version 1.0 of Microsoft's Video for Windows
Video for Windows
Video for Windows was a multimedia framework developed by Microsoft that allowed Microsoft Windows to play digital video.-Overview:...
in November 1992. It is based on MotiVE, a vector quantization
Vector quantization
Vector quantization is a classical quantization technique from signal processing which allows the modeling of probability density functions by the distribution of prototype vectors. It was originally used for data compression. It works by dividing a large set of points into groups having...
codec which Microsoft licensed from Media Vision.
In 1993, Media Vision marketed the Pro Movie Spectrum, an ISA board that captured video in both raw and MSV1 formats (the MSV1 processing was done in hardware on the board).