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<strong>DVD</strong> on Computers<br />

Figure 11.1<br />

Microsoft Windows<br />

DirectShow <strong>DVD</strong><br />

architecture<br />

457<br />

of these decoders were not compatible with DirectShow, but all now support<br />

DirectShow. Support for hardware decoders in DirectShow is provided with<br />

WDM device drivers (see Figure 11.1).<br />

<strong>DVD</strong>-Video playback and navigation is supported by DirectShow versions<br />

5.2 and later. The DirectDraw API also supports video display.<br />

Because full frame-rate decoded video has too high a bandwidth to be<br />

passed back and forth on most current implementations of the PCI bus, it<br />

often must travel on a separate path to the display adapter. Intel has<br />

designed the AGP architecture to support this. Microsoft’s DirectDraw

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