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Re: Thumbs up for Nvidia's new DVD decoder
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Originally Posted by davefred99
Actually all FX and up Nvidia cards have hardware exceleration (DXVA). I am not as sure about the ATi Cards but I think anything 9xxx an above does too. It takes usually takes the faster fx-5700 or Ati9600 and above cards to do overlay properly though. I just put an FX-5500 in my system, which is sort of a hotrod 5200 with a 128 bit 256k memory bus. It will do overlay with the older Nvidia 2.55 codec. I may just have to try out the newer one in the future.
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Isn't Hardware Accerlation and and mpeg de-coding two different things?
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Rich A
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Last edited by Rich A; 12-10-2004 at 06:44 PM.
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