PureVideo

[ascarytiger]

Is nvidias PureVideo decoder worth buying? And what exactly is it going to do for me?

 

[Steelski]

whatever anyone says. It should be free. and i have a huntch it will be soon.

 

[otispunkmeyer]

Originally posted by: Steelski
whatever anyone says. It should be free. and i have a huntch it will be soon.

we would like it to be free....but it costs $$ for a reason. because it can decode Mpeg2 ( a certain type perhaps) Nvidia must pay royalties to the people who own the rights to the Mpeg2 thingy

nvidia have to pay, if they made it free for us.....they would be out of pocket

 

[ascarytiger]

okay, but is it worth buying?

 

[Wreckage]

The NVDVD player is considered one of the best there is. (Works on most video cards including ATI)
http://www.avsforum.com/

The Purevideo codec for it makes it even better. (Only works on NVIDIA 6xxx & 7xxx series video cards).
http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2551&p=1

If you are happy with your current DVD player software there would be no reason to upgrade, but if you want better image quality and some more features it would be worth looking at. You can download a free trial and see for yourself.
http://www.nvidia.com/object/dvd_decoder.html

You can also use the Purevideo codec in other DVD player software packages like Windows Media Player.

 

[Goi]

ATI cards seems to do MPEG-2 for free though.

 

[Matthias99]

Originally posted by: Goi
ATI cards seems to do MPEG-2 for free though.

You don't have to pay for MPEG2 (unless you are licensing the decoder from someone else). You *do* have to pay to release something that can play DVDs.

I'm not sure NVIDIA sells their MPEG2 decoder (which is one of the best available) without the DVD player part as well. They charge extra for the PureVideo functionality because they're greedy bastards.

 

[0roo0roo]

i'd wait, ati's doing better and for free now. nvidia has to follow.. well unless they are arrogant iguess

http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware/ati_catalyst_5.13_video_quality/

 

[tuteja1986]

ATI are fixing AIVO .. it was release early but now its getting better

Catalyst 5.13 is the best thing that could have happened to ATI this year. It makes the ATI X1800XL or X1800XT worth buying read this article

http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware/ati_catalyst_5.13_video_quality/default.asp>> "Our tests show that Catalyst 5.13 is the greatest leap in video quality technology for ATI since the original Mach64-VT."