Indeo
E724352
Indeo is a family of video codecs developed by Intel that was widely used in the 1990s for compressed digital video playback on personal computers.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Indeo canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8289618 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Indeo Context triple: [AVI, commonlyAssociatedCodec, Indeo]
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A.
Cinepak
Cinepak is an early video compression codec widely used in the 1990s for CD-ROM and multimedia applications due to its ability to play smoothly on low-powered hardware.
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B.
Vorbis
Vorbis is a fanatical and manipulative high priest and inquisitor who serves as the primary antagonist in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld novel "Small Gods."
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C.
WavPack
WavPack is a free, open-source audio compression format known for offering both lossless and hybrid (lossy+correction) encoding modes.
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D.
Monkey's Audio
Monkey's Audio is a lossless audio compression format and codec known for its high compression ratios and Windows-focused software tools.
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E.
On2 VP6
On2 VP6 is a proprietary video compression codec developed by On2 Technologies that was widely used for streaming media, most notably as the primary video format in Adobe Flash Video before the rise of H.264.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Indeo Target entity description: Indeo is a family of video codecs developed by Intel that was widely used in the 1990s for compressed digital video playback on personal computers.
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A.
Cinepak
Cinepak is an early video compression codec widely used in the 1990s for CD-ROM and multimedia applications due to its ability to play smoothly on low-powered hardware.
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B.
Vorbis
Vorbis is a fanatical and manipulative high priest and inquisitor who serves as the primary antagonist in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld novel "Small Gods."
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C.
WavPack
WavPack is a free, open-source audio compression format known for offering both lossless and hybrid (lossy+correction) encoding modes.
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D.
Monkey's Audio
Monkey's Audio is a lossless audio compression format and codec known for its high compression ratios and Windows-focused software tools.
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E.
On2 VP6
On2 VP6 is a proprietary video compression codec developed by On2 Technologies that was widely used for streaming media, most notably as the primary video format in Adobe Flash Video before the rise of H.264.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
proprietary codec
ⓘ
video codec ⓘ video codec family ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Indeo 4
NERFINISHED
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Indeo 5 NERFINISHED ⓘ Indeo Raw NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| commonlyBundledWith |
Intel Smart Video Recorder hardware
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Microsoft Video for Windows NERFINISHED ⓘ early Windows multimedia CD-ROMs ⓘ |
| compressionType |
lossy compression
ⓘ
vector quantization codec ⓘ wavelet-based codec ⓘ wavelet-based codec ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| developer |
Intel
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Intel NERFINISHED ⓘ Intel NERFINISHED ⓘ Intel NERFINISHED ⓘ Intel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fileContainer |
AVI
ⓘ
MOV ⓘ QuickTime NERFINISHED ⓘ RM ⓘ |
| hasVersion |
Indeo 2
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Indeo 3 NERFINISHED ⓘ Indeo 4 NERFINISHED ⓘ Indeo 5 NERFINISHED ⓘ Indeo Video Interactive NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influenced | later PC-oriented video codecs ⓘ |
| introducedInDecade | 1990s ⓘ |
| licensingModel | proprietary license ⓘ |
| notableFor |
software-only video decompression on consumer PCs
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use in early Windows games and educational software ⓘ widespread use in CD-ROM multimedia titles ⓘ |
| securityStatus | known security vulnerabilities in Windows implementations ⓘ |
| successorTo | DVI video codec ⓘ |
| supports |
RGB color formats
ⓘ
YUV color formats ⓘ interframe compression ⓘ intraframe compression ⓘ |
| supportStatus | no longer installed by default on modern Windows versions ⓘ |
| usedFor | compressed digital video playback ⓘ |
| usedInPeriod |
1990s
ⓘ
early 1990s ⓘ |
| usedOnPlatform |
AmigaOS
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
BeOS NERFINISHED ⓘ Mac OS (classic) NERFINISHED ⓘ Microsoft Windows NERFINISHED ⓘ OS/2 NERFINISHED ⓘ personal computer ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Indeo Description of subject: Indeo is a family of video codecs developed by Intel that was widely used in the 1990s for compressed digital video playback on personal computers.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.