Indeo

Indeo
Filename extension
ivf
Internet media type
video/x-ivf, video/x-indeo
Developed byIntel Architecture Labs
Initial releaseNovember 1992; 32 years ago (1992-11)
Latest release
5.11
Type of formatcompressed video
Contained byAVI
Extended fromDVI

Indeo Video (commonly known now simply as "Indeo") is a family of audio and video formats and codecs first released in 1992, and designed for real-time video playback on desktop CPUs. 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 discs, Indeo was distinguished by being one of the first codecs allowing full-speed video playback without using hardware acceleration. Also unlike Cinepak and TrueMotion S, the compression used the same Y'CbCr 4:2:0 colorspace as the ITU's H.261 and ISO's MPEG-1. Indeo use was free of charge[1] to allow for broadest usage.

  1. ^ "Indeo® Video 5 Technical Overview(Archived)". Archived from the original on 2014-05-30.