ATI's Avivo Platform - H.264 Decode and Transcode Acceleration on R5xx

Much like Intel's Centrino and Viiv, Avivo is a reference to a platform, and as such it doesn't refer to just one product, but in this case two. A complete Avivo platform features an Avivo capture card, and an Avivo graphics card. As of today, the only Avivo capture card available is the ATI Theater 550, and presently there are no Avivo graphics cards available. The next-generation of GPUs from ATI (R520, RV530 and RV515) will all support Avivo, and thus they make up the second half of the platform.