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 Live! 5

Philips Rhythmic Edge PCI

Turtle Beach Santa Cruz

SIIG Soundwave Pro PCI 32-bit

Limitations:

NVIDIA PureVideo Decoder Platinum 30 day Trial

Enables playback of ATSC and DVB transport streams in Windows Media Ceter and Windows Media Player. ...

NVIDIA DVD Decoder