Dell XPS 420 owner manual Understanding the Media Xcelerator Optional

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Understanding the Media Xcelerator™ (Optional)

The Dell Media Xcelerator™ is an internal USB 2.0 bus-powered device that increases the speed and performance of MPEG transcoding and transrating for various 3rd party applications supporting the Sonic DVD engine.

The Xcelerator™ device enables faster format conversion and facilitates resolution changes to MPEG-2 and DVD video streams. The device will allow MPEG2 or DVD based format conversions and fit to disk operations to be completed in significantly less time. A built-in, dedicated processor ensures significantly improved system availability and speed. The Xcelerator also supports MPEG-2 and DVD format stream conversion to low bit-rate MPEG-4 formats for portable video devices.

Features supported include:

•Improved system availability through CPU offloading to Xcelerator.

•Quicker DVD creation with improved fit to disk capability.

•Transcode High Definition MPEG-2 video clips to MPEG-2 or MPEG-4 standard definition

•Faster conversions of movies into PC or PMP formats

•Transrate MPEG-2 video clips to a lower bit rate to fit onto a DVD, CD, or other media

•Higher transcoded video quality at similar bit rates

For more information on the Xcelerator, see the Dell Media Xcelerator™ User’s Guide available on the Help and Support Center on your system, or the Dell Support website at support.dell.com.

To access Help and Support Center, click Start→Help and Support.

NOTE: The Dell Media Xcelerator is an optional feature and will not be present on your system if you did not order it.

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