FOURCCs supported by various graphics controllers

This table attempts to list the FOURCCs that are supported by various graphics controllers and some of the retail adapters that use those controllers. The list is, of course, incomplete, since I have access to only a limited set of hardware in our test lab. If you have a controller that is not listed, I'd be very pleased to add information for it if you send me a note.

This list was compiled by installing the various adapters in Window 95 system along with the drivers that were supplied with them (or the Microsoft driver, whichever was newer) then running DXVIEW (part of the DirectX SDK) to find out whether the controller supports overlay surfaces and, if so, which FOURCCs it offers. It is possible that a given controller supports more formats in hardware and that these are just not enabled in software or that formats offered by the driver involve some software conversion. Where possible, I have indicated these cases.

Note that Windows NT drivers for a given controller often support a smaller subset of FOURCCs than on Windows 95/98.

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Graphics Controller	FOURCCs Supported	Example adapters using this controller and notes
3D Labs Permedia II	YUY2, Y411	Diamond  Multimedia GL1000 Pro
3Dfx Voodoo 3	YUY2, UYVY, YV12, I420
ATI 3D Rage II	YUY2, YV12, UYVY	ATI 3D Pro Turbo PC2TV
ATI Rage Pro	YUY2, YV12, IF09, YVU9, UYVY, VBID (AGP version of controller includes MC12, motion compensation surfaces. As yet, I have no information on this format)	(Data for Win98 driver)
Brooktree 2115	UYVY, YUY2, Y41P, Y42T, Y41T, RGBT, RGB16 (555), RGB16 (565), RGB32. With driver conversion - IF09, YVU9, YV12, Y211, YVYU.	STB VideoRage (installed in original Gateway 2000 Destination living room PC systems).
Brooktree 2164	UYVY, YUY2, Y41P, RGB16 (555), RGB16 (565), Y41T, Y42T, RGBT. With driver conversion - IF09, YVU9, YVYU, YV12, Y211, RGB32. All converted formats apart from IF09 are disabled by default. IF09 conversion is significantly faster and better quality than having Indeo decompress to RGB.	STB VideoRage II (installed in later Gateway 2000 Destination living room PC systems).
Chips & Technology 65550	YUY2
Cirrus Logic 5434	No overlay supported	Diamond Speedstar series (Diamond GT)
Cyrix MediaGX	UYVY
Intel i740 AGP	YUY2
Matrox G400	IF09, YUY2, MTX1, MTX4, UYVY, MTX5, MTX3, YV12 (YUY2,UYVY are also supported as Direct3D textures)	Matrox Millenium G400
Matrox MGA Power Graphics	IF09, YUY2 (These formats are offered via normal offscreen surfaces and colour space conversion BitBlt functions. No overlay is supported)	Matrox Millennium
Matrox MGA Power Graphics 64 bit	IF09, YUY2 (These formats are offered via normal offscreen surfaces and colour space conversion BitBlt functions. No overlay is supported)	Matrox Mystique
NeoMagic MagicGraph 128ZV	IF09, YUY2	Dell Latitude LM133 laptop
NVidia GeForce2	UYVY, UYNV, YUNV, YUY2, YV12, YVU9, IF09, IV32, IV31
NVidia TNT	UYVY, UYNV, YUY2, YV12, YVU9, IF09, IV32, IV31, RAW8	Yes, it really does support Indeo compressed format surfaces (according to the NVidia engineer who sent the information)
Rendition V2x00	UYVY, HMCR	Hercules Thriller 3D / Thriller Conspiracy Diamond Stealth II Jazz Outlaw 3D / Bonnie & Clyde Genoa V-Raptor 3D
S3 ProSavage KM133	RGB15, RGB16, YUY2, YV12/I420, Y211
S3 Trio 64V+	YUY2, Y211	Diamond Stealth 64 Video 2001 Number 9 Motion 331
S3 Virge	YUY2, Y211	STB powerGraph 64 Diamond Stealth 3D 2000 (Turbo)
S3 Virge/VX	YUY2, Y211	Diamond Stealth 3D 3000 (Turbo)
S3 Vision 968	YUY2	Number 9 Fx Motion 771
Trident 3D-975	YUY2, YV12, YVU9, IF09	(2 simultaneous overlays supported)
Trident 3D-985AGP	YUY2, YV12, YVU9, IF09	(2 simultaneous overlays supported)
Trident TGUI 968x	YUY2, IF09

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