Vivo - What does it do?

[spyro415]

I was lookin at video cards recently, and noticed some of them had a feature, VIVO. Could someone please explain to me what this does? I tried searching the forums, but came up with nothing.

[pk1209]

try searching google.. probably better than searching these forums... it means video in video out i think, beyond that google will know.

[PBAsydney]

http://www.directron.com/vivo.html

[spyro415]

That site doesn't exactly explain what it is.

Tried searching google...I entered several different terms, but all that came up were products.

[ptegan]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivo

Vivo is an acronym for "Video In Video Out".

Featured on some AGP/PCI Express video cards, such as the Nvidia GeForce range and the ATI Radeon series. It enables the card to have bidirectional video transfer (input and output) through one connector, by using a specialised splitter cable. VIVO can receive input from RCA or S-Video sources, and typically moves output over RCA, less commonly over S-Video however right now S-Video is more widely used for VIVO by both Nvidia and ATI.


Meaning that you can for example transfer video to your harddrive, edit it and then send it back out to the video recorder and/or tv.

[spyro415]

Thanks alot! I now know that is one of the features i don't need.