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Video offloading + Win XP

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smitbret

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My PC is pretty dated (first gen/socket 939 dual core AMD with an nVidia 7900GS video card). I don't need/want to upgrade the entire PC, but I wish it were a little more HD playback friendly. It stutters a bit when playing back 720p and is unable to playback 1080p sources.

I was thinking of dropping $100 and getting a new video card that offloads the playback from the CPU but a quick glance at nVidia's PureVideo description gives me the impression that video off-loading is only available with Vista and Win 7. Didn't know if this was the case with all cards now or if that was an out dated write-up.

Also, are their any cards that offload the transcoding process from the CPU while using Handbrake in just a basic home user set up? I'm not brand loyal to any cards or GPUs, just want to know what's the best card for less than $100 that would/could accomplish this task, or if it is even worth my time.
 
From what I understand, handbrake doesn't support any form of gpu offloading. You would need to have an 8000 nvidia gpu or higher and a program that supports the hardware, like the nvidia supported badaboom. However, video quality is poor and on the fly transcoding is still only handled by the cpu. Here is a review of badaboom from Anand. http://www.anandtech.com/show/2554

http://www.anandtech.com/show/2586

In short, you'll have to upgrade your cpu for better HD playback and transcoding performance.
 
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Zaitsev said:
From what I understand, handbrake doesn't support any form of gpu offloading. You would need to have an 8000 nvidia gpu or higher and a program that supports the hardware, like the nvidia supported badaboom. However, video quality is poor and on the fly transcoding is still only handled by the cpu. Here is a review of badaboom from Anand. http://www.anandtech.com/show/2554

http://www.anandtech.com/show/2586

In short, you'll have to upgrade your cpu for better HD playback and transcoding performance.
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That's what I thought. GT 210 it is. Thanks for the help, everyone.
 
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