The Radeon 9700 will be clocked at 315MHz for the high-end, retail version of the GPU and we expect to see OEM versions that will have a lower clock speed, the chip will have eight pipelines and will use as many as 107 million transistors. It will be built using 0.15 micron technology and the card will have external power connector since it will need more power than AGP 2.0 can provide
The Radeon 9700 will have four vertex shader units and it will support Pixel and vertex shader 2.0 - the one that Microsoft will introduce with DirectX 9. The Radeon 9700 will have new feature called VideoShader. This will use the pixel shader unit to accelerate MPEG video, but it won't have support for MPEG-4 decoding or encoding in hardware.
The card will have support for 16X anisotropic filtering and will be able to deliver 400 million polygons/s. Performance-wise, you will be able to see 15,000 3DMarks on a P4 platform, where Geforce 4 would not give more than 12,000
News source: The Inquirer
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The Radeon 9700 will have four vertex shader units and it will support Pixel and vertex shader 2.0 - the one that Microsoft will introduce with DirectX 9. The Radeon 9700 will have new feature called VideoShader. This will use the pixel shader unit to accelerate MPEG video, but it won't have support for MPEG-4 decoding or encoding in hardware.
The card will have support for 16X anisotropic filtering and will be able to deliver 400 million polygons/s. Performance-wise, you will be able to see 15,000 3DMarks on a P4 platform, where Geforce 4 would not give more than 12,000
News source: The Inquirer View: The Full Story
 | Property Page details The property page is an additional page in the properties of a MP3-file. It is not limited to only one MP3-file, but you can select multiple MP3-files, or even scan whole directories. If you select a playlist-file (with the extension .pls or .m3u) then the information about the files in the playlist is displayed. The upper part of the propertypage displays some general information about the MP3-File. In fact it is the information about the MP3-bitstream. The lower part is for viewing/editing the ID3-tag: You can edit all the data shown here. Additionally you can copy a field to all the other files you have selected, so you don't have to enter the same data multiple times. (the '<>'-buttons). Another feature is the searching for MP3-files, when you shift-click on items in the drop-down lists of the specific field. They hold all the different information about all the MP3-files selected. The Clipalbum-button is more than a simply button: it displays the last action executed. You get a list of actions, when you right-click on this button. Actions are simple scripts, which generate text-output into a file or the clipboard. If you generate the output in a file, then the file is executed as if you did a double-click on it. I.e. if you make a ".bat" file, you can for example make a rename of the files. Or you can generate data-files with the information seperated by a TAB. You can easily import this kind of file in a spreadsheet-application. The scan-button analyzes the filename, and adds the values to the ID3-Tag, if the corresponding fields are empty. Useful for updating some empty info-fields. It depends on regular expressions, so you can generate your own template for scanning the data. |
Icon Handler Detail
The Icon-Handler makes new icons for MP3-files. Based on their bitrate, you can see different icons. This is very useful, as you can see directly in the explorer-view, which MP3s have good quality, and which not. Below you can see two screenshots, with the default icon-set. You can design your own icons, and even make themes, so you can easily switch between different icons.
Screenshot (big icons): | Screenshot (small icons - detail view): |
 | ToolTips Detail The Tooltips-Handler adds a nice feature to the explorer: when you keep your mouse over a MP3-file, then a ToolTip with information about the file is displayed. The advantage is, there is a complete list of used tags shown! Please Note: For this feature, you need the Active Desktop of Internet Explorer 4 installed. |
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