New nVIDIA H.264 PureVideo Decoder

[amdnVuser]

So I noticed that nVIDIA lists Nero Showtime as a compatible partner decoder for their newly announced H.264 enabled driver, and I was thinking of buying Nero 7 Ultra Edition because I love their optical media burning software, not to mention I'm anxious to play with their H.264 encoder. Anyway, on Nero's Showtime requirements page for ShowTime 2, it says that a "DVD-Video plug-in for DVD-Video playback" is required. Does this mean their software DOESN'T already include a DVD decoder or am I missing something? Otherwise, I guess I'd go with the Cyberlink.

 

[amdnVuser]

So does anyone use Nero 7 Ultra Edition?

 

[Gstanfor]

Showtime does have a generic decoder builtin - it doesn't require 3rd party decoders to work, but if you want fully hardware accelerated decoding you'll need purevideo / avivo etc.