NVIDIA DVD Decoder

NVIDIA PureVideo Decoder (NVIDIA DVD Decoder) delivers unmatched color fidelity and smooth DVD, video, and TV viewing NVIDIA PureVideo Decoder is a combination of a hardware video processor and video decode software for playback of DVD and MPEG-2 videos using Microsoft Windows Media Player and Windows Media Center Edition.

Featuring Dolby Digital surround sound audio and hardware-accelerated video on all Microsoft DirectX compatible graphics processors, the NVIDIA PureVideo Decoder will deliver unmatched color fidelity and smooth video, DVD and TV viewing.

Here are some key features of "NVIDIA DVD Decoder":
Enables DVD viewing with Microsoft Windows Media Player or Microsoft Windows Media Center Edition
Enables TV playback for Microsoft Windows Media Center Edition. (A TV tuner is required to capture and tune the TV channels.)
High quality MPEG-2 decoder supports any third party software application
based upon Microsoft DirectShow
Dolby Digital surround sound decoding
Minimizes CPU utilization by offloading the MPEG-2 decoding onto the graphics processor
Enables playback of ATSC and DVB transport streams in Windows Media Ceter and Windows Media Player.
Supports Windows Mobile-based Portable Media Centers allowing end users to transcode MPEG-2 content into Windows Media Video 9
S/PDIF pass-through for external decoding of Dolby Digital and DTS (compatible hardware required)


Technical Specifications
Fully compliant ISO MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 video and audio decoder
MPEG-2 acceleration for inverse quantization (IQ), inverse discrete cosine
transform (IDCT), and motion compensation (mo comp)
Microsoft DirectShow support
Microsoft DirectX Video Acceleration support
Microsoft Video Mixing Renderer 7 and 9
Overlay support
Sub-picture support
Transport stream file reader for Windows Media Player and Windows Media
Center


NVIDIA PureVideo Decoder supports all Microsoft DirectX 8.x compatible chips, including:
NVIDIA GeForce 7 Series
NVIDIA GeForce 6 Series
NVIDIA GeForce4 family
NVIDIA GeForce FX family
NVIDIA Quadro family
NVIDIA Quadro2 family
NVIDIA Quadro DCC family
NVIDIA Quadro4 family
NVIDIA Quadro FX family
NVIDIA nForce family
NVIDIA nForce2 family
ATI Radeon family
Intel i915
Intel i865
Intel i845G
Intel i815G/i815EG


Audio Chips Supported:
NVIDIA nForce Audio
Creative Labs Ensoniq Audio PCI
Creative Labs Sound Blaster 16 PCI
Creative Labs Sound Blaster 16 +Wa
Creative Labs Sound Blaster 512 3D
Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audig
Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audig
Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audig
Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audig
Creative Labs Sound Blaster Live! 5
Creative Labs Sound Blaster Live! 5
Creative Labs Sound Blaster Live! 5
Creative Labs Sound Blaster Live! 5
Philips Rhythmic Edge PCI
Turtle Beach Santa Cruz
SIIG Soundwave Pro PCI 32-bit


Limitations:
NVIDIA PureVideo Decoder Platinum 30 day Trial