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Jason Dunn
10-25-2004, 09:00 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.nvidia.com/object/dvd_decoder.html' target='_blank'>http://www.nvidia.com/object/dvd_decoder.html</a><br /><br /></div><i>"NVIDIA DVD Decoder enables the industry's highest quality DVD and MPEG-2 playback and rich surround sound audio for Windows Media Player and Windows Media Center Edition. Featuring Dolby® Digital surround sound audio and hardware acceleration for compatible graphics processors, the NVIDIA DVD Decoder delivers unmatched color fidelity and smooth DVD, video, and TV viewing. When paired with a GeForce GPU, NVIDIA DVD Decoder enables adaptive de-interlacing and high quality filtering for the ultimate home theater experience."</i><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dvd.nvidiaproducts.com/product_img/dvddec%2egif" /><br /><br />If you have an nVidia-based GPU on your computer, and you use that computer to watch DVDs or MPEG2 files, this is a superb solution (I bought it myself yesterday).

Zack Mahdavi
10-25-2004, 09:32 PM
Jason, have you tried this with Snapstream BeyondTV yet? I've been trying to fix my audio sync problems, so I'm trying to find a better MPEG2 decoder.

Jason Dunn
10-25-2004, 09:42 PM
Jason, have you tried this with Snapstream BeyondTV yet? I've been trying to fix my audio sync problems, so I'm trying to find a better MPEG2 decoder.

No, I haven't. I don't have nVidia hardware in the machine I'm running Beyond TV3 on (it's the Shuttle ST62K with an integrated ATI GPU), so I wasn't planning on installing it there. What MPEG decoder are you using for Beyond TV3 now? I think I'm using the Intervideo encoder.

David Horn
10-26-2004, 12:05 AM
You don't actually need an nVidia graphics card to use it, as it relies on DirectX to access the card's features. According to the website, any modern GPU should be up to the job.

I don't really care though - I'm at Uni at the moment (no Sky Digital connection) so I'm missing all the new Enterprise and Stargate episodes. So I just download the HDTV rips and watch them. Last one was 700MB for 40 minutes, and that was incredibly highly compressed. Very pretty too.

I used to think Sky Digital was the height of television viewing, then you Americans (and Canadians) went and got HDTV.