

If you're into dive watches, you probably know the reason you need to decompress if you go below a certain depth for more than a certain time. The decompression timer is used to tell you how long a decompression stop you'll need if you exceed the no-decompression limit of staying at 59 feet for 50 minutes. The signature feature of the Ocean Star Decompression Timer (and of course, its ancestor from the 1960s) is the brightly colored decompression table on the dial. I don't follow this particular segment of the vintage collectible watch market tremendously closely, but it looks as if these somewhat rare and very colorful vintage divers retail for close to the $10,000 mark these days – a considerable premium over most other contemporary Mido watches, it would seem. As a result, the Powerwind 1000, whose name refers to its 1,000-feet/300-meter water resistance (this without a screw-down crown, apparently), has become a very popular collectible for dive watch enthusiasts. The watch was not in production for all that long, going out of production in 1965. 5907, from 1961 – it was part of the Ocean Star line, which launched in 1959, right about the time that recreational scuba diving was really taking off around the world. The original version of this watch was the Powerwind 1000, ref. The news that Mido has been planning on bringing it back has been out for several days, as of this writing, and so far, the consensus seems to be that Mido has hit a home run, and I see no reason to offer a counterargument (which would be difficult to sustain anyway). These codecs are very helpful for those using older machines and older versions of codecs and media players.This is probably one of the more hotly anticipated summer releases.
#MOVIE DECOMPRESSOR 64 BIT#
Other 64 Bit Codecs for I420/IYUV/YV12 are no longer replaced by the Helix Codecs and can co- exist now with the Helix Codecs.
#MOVIE DECOMPRESSOR 32 BIT#
The new INF- File restores the native 32 Bit Windows Codecs if the Helix Codecs are uninstalled and removed from the System. (Conforms now to the Microsoft White Paper for YUV Formats in Windows) Solved Problems with DirectX, Direct Draw, Active Movie, Direct2D, Direct3D and OpenGL FourCC Mapping from I420 to IYUV.
#MOVIE DECOMPRESSOR INSTALL#
Solved Problems with the FourCC Codec install Order in the Registry. Solved minor Problems with HonesTech HDV Encoder, MainConcept, Craaft Cinema, Cinegy, Microsoft and Pegasus encoders. Fixed Problems with Osprey/ATI/Matrox/Intel/Aurora/DVS and other popular Videoboards. Fixed Problems with Empia/Afa/SynTek and other Capture Drivers. Fixed decoding Arksoft IYUV and ATI YV12 Videos (32/64 Bit) with the Helix Codecs for encoding and decoding. Fixed decoding Drastic YCbCr I420/IYUV/YV12 Videos (32 Bit) with the Helix Codecs and works both ways now for encoding and decoding. Fixed decoding Intel I420/IYUV Videos (32/64 Bit) with the Helix Codecs and works both ways now for encoding and decoding.

The IYUV Codec now reports itself as "Helix IYUV 420 Codec" instead of "Helix IYUV YUV Codec". The IYUV Codec stays now in 12 Bit and does not upscale to YUY2 anymore to other 12 Bit Codecs. Modified I420 Codec for IYUV Colorspace (same as I420) and added the "iyuvvfw.dll" Codec for both Versions. The codec responsible for handling each format is selected automatically. Unlike XviD and MS H.263, the Helix YUV Codecs can convert both to and from I420 and YV12.

On the other hand, the Helix YUV Codecs can handle multiples of 4. The aim of the Helix YUV Codecs was to provide a better alternative to MS H.263, which couldn’t handle dimension multiple of 15 or exceeding 352 x 288. VfW codecs are necessary for playing and editing in VirtualDub and other similar applications. With the Helix YUV Codecs you can obtain fast color conversions to the most popular RGB formats, YUV2 and I420 and YV12 when requested.Ī limitation for these tools is that width has to be a multiple of 4, and height needs to be a multiple of 2. The difference is that i420vfw.dll encodes to I420, while yv12vfw.dll encodes to YV12. They are almost identical, as they accept common input formats and provide lossless compression. I420 is YV12 with the chroma planes swapped.īoth tools decode I420 and YV12. The components of the Helix YUV Codecs pack are an I420 VFW Compressor/Decompressor and an YV12 VFW Compressor/Decompressor. Other actions performed by this codec are handling the output of AviSynth scripts and compressing video files to these formats.
