Does the ATI 9550/9600 have HW acceleration?

[davexnet]

Hello,
I've acquired a used PC from 2004 and I'm trying to see how to make it work
the best I can using the existing motherboard for basic web browsing, etc.

I picked up an ATI 9550 AGP from Ebay. To my understanding, it's an underclocked 9600.
According to specifications I've seen, it should support mpeg-4 (presumably H264)
acceleration, but I can't get it to work at all.

Neither mpc-hc using it's built in filters enable DXVA,
nor does directshow using Windows media player and FFDshow dxva filters.
I'm using Catalyst 10.2, recommended by the AMD site.

I'm using XP SP3, Sempron 2600+, 512MB RAM
If anybody can remember that far back, appreciate any
enlightenment.
Dave

 

[ShintaiDK]

ATI first supported h.264 in late 2005 (Aka. X1000 GPUs.). So no, it doesnt support it.

 

[davexnet]

ATI first supported h.264 in late 2005 (Aka. X1000 GPUs.). So no, it doesnt support it.

Thanks very much for this info. The thing that confused me into thinking there
may be some suppport, was this paragraph,

VideoShader™
Seamless integration of pixel shaders with video in real time
FullStream™ video de-blocking technology for Real, DivX, and WMV9 formats
VideoSoap™ noise removal filtering for captured video
MPEG1/2/4 decode and encode acceleration
DXVA Support
Hardware Motion Compensation, iDCT, DCT and color space conversion
All-format DTV/HDTV decoding
YPrPb component output for direct drive of HDTV displays2
Adaptive Per-Pixel De-Interlacing and Frame Rate Conversion (temporal filtering)

Found here
http://www.amd.com/us/products/desktop/graphics/other/Pages/9550-specifications.aspx

They mention mpeg 1/2/4, but perhaps they mean mpeg-4 xvid/ divx, etc?

 

[ShintaiDK]

AVC/H.264 is Mpeg4, part 10.

 

[ViRGE]

AVC/H.264 is Mpeg4, part 10.

Indeed. When they mention MPEG-4 they mean MPEG-4 part 2, which is XviD/DivX*. H.264 did not exist at the time and since then has always been referred to by that name and not its MPEG name.

* It can't actually do hardware decode of that codec, either. Their "support" is for hardware deblocking, and no current applications actually support that functionality

 

[davexnet]

ViRGE, ShintaiDK,
Thanks for your help. I'm able to play 720p in Windows media player using the
CPU, and that's more than I expected from this old box.