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First post, by dionb

Posted on 2018-05-06, 01:33

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Generally Im'm pretty adept at identifying components, but this time a card has me stumped.

It's a 16b ISA card with Xilinx XC7354-15 and IIT3204AKAB chips, 128kB of SRAM attached to the IIT chip and a VGA (Dsub15), RCA and audio connector. No FCC ID, no vendor or model name. Just "Made in Singapore" and a 9536 date code.

Anyone able to nudge me in the right direction with this card?

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Reply 1 of 5, by dr.ido

Posted on 2018-05-06, 11:24

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It looks like an MPEG1 decoder card for playing VCD movies.

Reply 2 of 5, by dionb

Posted on 2018-05-06, 11:48

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Ugh yes, that was a possibility I hadn't even considered. Would make it less than useless to me even if I could find the info needed to get it to work. I suppose I could always transcode a certain famous Rick Astley song and give someone on some old hardware a bit of a surprise...

Reply 3 of 5, by Malvineous

Posted on 2018-05-06, 13:04

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Is that a VESA feature connector on the top? I wonder if that's how it gets the video signal to output on the VGA connector? If so it might be worth keeping for that alone - cards using the feature connector are very rare.

I have a 16-bit ISA video capture card of similar age and it's a much larger card, so on size alone this could well be "just" an MPEG decoder card.

Reply 4 of 5, by dionb

Posted on 2018-05-06, 13:20

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The thing on the top is almost certainly a VESA feature connector - no way could the ISA bus handle the amount of data needed for raw video to or from the decoder card. It's labeled 'CON 1'.

Reply 5 of 5, by RetroFletch

Posted on 2023-10-11, 14:29

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Know it's a late response but this card was sold as the Commodore mpeg pro 😀

Can find fcc Id if you search for that, seems it was manufactured by aztech

drivers seem impossible to find.

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