Does my 9800 pro h/w decode/encode?

[dug777]

I know that i can't enable h/w acceleration in Powerdvd of i get a funky screen of artifacts...is this because my kard doesn't support that (plain powercolor 128mb 9800 pro)?

Cheers folks

 

[HappyNic]

well, my ATi 9800 supports powerdvd's hardware acceleration,, along with all the other radeons, all the way down to the 7000s.

So you might want to try a different set of videocard drivers or check your copy of powerdvd.

 

[dug777]

how could i test if it works with ne thing else (wmp10 ideally, or vlc media player)? Been playing with

Using the 4.12 cats with CCC

 

[aidanjm]

ATI has had hardware MPEG decode (for DVDs) forever. Even with a 9200 you get hardware assisted MPEG decode. With the 9550 9600 and above there is hardware assisted de-interlacing as well (the big "feature" that NVIDIA is making people pay for with PureVideo). You could download Zoom player, that gives you more options to fiddle around with/ turn on VM9 and DXVA (using directX 9 video aceleration for watching DVDs). Do you have any other MPEG-2 codecs installed (other than what PowerDVD installed onto your system)? Maybe there is some kind of conflict happening.

 

[dug777]

got a shiat load of codec pax cos i had loads of probs after a reformat n reinstall bout three months back...

U got a link 4 zoom player? (lazy i know- but dialup google is hell )

cheers folks