

Indeo video 3.2 support was dropped and "Indeo XP for Windows" wasn't available anymore.Īs of the beginning of 2020, the website of Ligos Corporation went offline and the package "Ligos Indeo Codecs" isn't available anymore. It includes Indeo video codec 5.2, Indeo video codec 4.5 and Indeo audio decoder 2.5. In January 2007 Ligos released a new package called "Ligos Indeo Codecs", which is also payware. For all Windows OS from Windows 95 to Windows XP.Indeo XP also includes the legacy codecs Indeo Video 3.2, Indeo Video 4.5, and Indeo Audio 2.5.Playback performance enhancements including smoother, interpolated "zoom by 2" playback.Better compression at all levels of video quality than previous generation codecs.A wavelet compression algorithm that improves visual quality over previous versions of Indeo.Optimization of the Indeo Video 5 scalability feature.

Ligos later provided Indeo video version 5.2 called "Indeo XP for Windows" as payware with the following new features: As of June 27, 2000, Ligos Technology acquired the rights to Intel Indeo media software. The version history goes from Intel Indeo version 2 (IR21), 3 (IV31 and IV32), 4 (IV4 and IV41) to 5 (IV50 and IV51). It was one of the first codecs without a need of hardware acceleration. Originally the Indeo codecs were developed by the Intel Architecture Labs since 1992. Indeo seems to be a blend, more precisely a portmanteau, of "Intel Video". Through the 1990s the Intel Indeo codec was very popular, many computer video games and other software utilized it to encode their videos and audio.
