Product Info
Featuring Dolby® Digital surround sound audio and hardware-accelerated video on all Microsoft DirectX® compatible graphics processors, the NVIDIA PureVideo Decoder, a plug-in for Microsoft Windows Media Player and Media Center Edition, delivers unmatched color fidelity and smooth DVD, video, and TV viewing. The NVIDIA PureVideo Decoder is also the best way to experience NVIDIA PureVideo on your NVIDIA® GeForce™ 6 and 7 Series GPUs, enabling smooth, vibrant, and vivid videos.
The NVIDIA PureVideo Decoder is the first software decoder to receive the Designed for Media Center Edition certification, ensuring that it will deliver premium video quality and unmatched performance for Media Center PCs. In addition, the NVIDIA PureVideo Decoder supports the transcoding function for Windows Mobile Portable Media Centers found within Windows Media Player.
Features
- Enables DVD viewing with Microsoft® Windows Media® Player or Microsoft Windows® Media Center Edition
- High quality MPEG-2 decoder supports any third party software application based upon Microsoft DirectShow®
- Enables PureVideo technology on GeForce 6 and 7 series GPUs, for features such as spatial temporal de-interlacing, inverse telecine, and bad edit correction
- Dolby® Digital surround sound decoding
- Minimizes CPU utilization by offloading the MPEG-2 decoding onto the graphics processor
- Enables advanced de-interlacing
- Decodes high-definition MPEG-2 streams for ATSC tuners
- 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)
System Requirements
- Windows XP Media Center Edition, Windows XP Professional, or Windows XP Home Edition
- DirectX 9.0 or higher
- Windows Media Center or Windows Media® Player 9.0 or higher for DVD Playback
- DirectShow compatible software for MPEG-2 file playback
- DirectX Video Acceleration (DXVA) compatible graphics processor supports, such as NVIDIA GeForce4™ series, GeForce FX series, GeForce 6 series, or GeForce 7 series
- DVD-ROM drive required for DVD viewing
Graphics Chips Supported
All Microsoft DirectX® 8.x compatible chips, including:
- NVIDIA GeForce 7 series
- NVIDIA GeForce 6 series
- NVIDIA GeForce FX series
- NVIDIA GeForce4 series
- NVIDIA GeForce 3 series
- NVIDIA Quadro FX series
- NVIDIA Quadro4 series
- NVIDIA Quadro DCC series
Audio Chips Supported
- NVIDIA nForce Audio
- Creative Labs® Ensoniq Audio PCI
- Creative Labs Sound Blaster 16 PCI
- Creative Labs Sound Blaster 16 +WavEffects
- Creative Labs Sound Blaster 512 3D Audio PCI
- Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audigy MP3+
- Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audigy Platinum
- Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audigy X-Gamer
- Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audigy 2
- Creative Labs Sound Blaster Live! 5.1
- Creative Labs Sound Blaster Live! 5.1 MP3+
- Creative Labs Sound Blaster Live! 5.1 Platinum
- Creative Labs Sound Blaster Live! 5.1 X-Gamer
- Philips® Rhythmic Edge PCI
- Turtle Beach Santa Cruz
- SIIG® Soundwave Pro PCI 32-bit
Specifications
General:
Supports Windows Media Center and Windows Media Player: Yes
Works with all DXVA Compatible CPU: Yes
Audio:
Dolby Digital 2 Channel: Yes
Dolby Digital 5.1: Yes
Dolby Pro Logic II: Yes
Dolby Headphone: Yes
DTS: Yes
S/PDIF Pass through: Yes
Video:
DVD/MPEG-2 Decoder: Yes
Transport stream support in Windows Media Player
Enables advanced post processing features on NVIDIA GPUs