[Rich A]

Originally Posted by emg178

If you can't find the file and you are using windows 2000, try looking in the folder:
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users.WinNT\Application Data\SnapStream\Beyond TV\
That is where it was on my box. Note the All Users.WinNT folder.

Anyway, I tried it out with BTV, and the playback was worse than the intervideo decoders. I'm using a celeron 1.7, Gigabit mobo, ATI all in Wonder 8500dv for display and Hauppauge pvr 250 for encoding. The nvidia decoder 'worked' I guess, but playback was choppy and the brightness was fluctuating. It really looked a lot worse than the intervideo decoder.

I still don't understand why guys with Non-Nvidia video boards are even trying this? This decoder was (AFAIK) designed to make use of on-video card firmware to enhance decoding. Perhaps it may work as a "generic" software codec with other manufacturer's cards, but trying to use it with them certainly can't work well. Not as well as the video it was designed for.

Using the logic that seems to previal here, everyone with an ATI video card should chuck the ATI drivers and use other video card drivers. That ain't gonna work. This "codec" was written, designed and produced to utilize the specific hardware architecture of THEIR products .. NVidia video cards. Or am I just mis-informed ?? (I've been wrong before .. )