NVIDIA Enables PureVideo on GeForce 6 GPUs

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• Anand Lal Shimpi - Monday, December 20, 2004 - link

  gordon151
  
  I should have made this more clear, I used the NVIDIA codec for NVIDIA's tests and I used ATI's codec for ATI's tests. I used Zoom Player for both of them.
  
  ViRGE
  
  They never briefed me on anything like that but I can always ask :)
  
  Take care,
  Anand

• ViRGE - Monday, December 20, 2004 - link

  Thanks Crimson, but I'm talking about the video features, not the elusive cards themselves. ;-)

• crimson117 - Monday, December 20, 2004 - link

  #29: http://anandtech.com/news/shownews.aspx?i=23531

• ViRGE - Monday, December 20, 2004 - link

  I know this is an Nvidia article Anand, but could you get on ATI's butt about their lack of features too, and find out what's going on? When the X800 was launched, ATI was talking about decode acceleration for MPEG4 along along with some sort of encode acceleration(i.e. all the features NV promissed but never delivered on). I'm curious to know what happened to that, and if we're going to get something new out of ATI besides WMV acceleration.

• gordon151 - Monday, December 20, 2004 - link

  I was wondering why AT's results were different than PCPers and just noticed they used MMC & 4.12 while AT used the nVidia codec and player for both cards tests.

• Anand Lal Shimpi - Monday, December 20, 2004 - link

  Ytterbium
  
  I've asked numerous times, never gotten a response. I'll try again :)
  
  For those of you who are wondering, I have asked NVIDIA what their official statement is to early 6800 adopters, but that has also been met with no response.
  
  Take care,
  Anand

• Ytterbium - Monday, December 20, 2004 - link

  I'm dissapointed that the encode function never made it, that was a killer feature. Any idea if it will come?

• Spike - Monday, December 20, 2004 - link

  Thanks for that! I have the BFG 6800 GT and on the BFG cd there is the nvDVD software. It's nice to know I can actually use the VP that I paid for!
  
  -spike

• Gatak - Monday, December 20, 2004 - link

  Here are some examples of interlacing artifacts when redering on a progressive screen:
  
  1) http://moment22.mine.nu/interlace_1.jpg
  
  Most software DVDs either blend or remove one of the fields by some partial de-interlacing algorithm. nvidia's DVD decoder does it ok. The image is sharp but still leaves only half framerate.
  
  2) http://moment22.mine.nu/interlace_2.jpg
  
  But in reality, half temporal resolution is lost. What should have been done is to render each field as a separate frame.
  
  3) http://moment22.mine.nu/interlace_3.jpg
  

• Anand Lal Shimpi - Monday, December 20, 2004 - link

  Spike
  
  I wasn't aware that the 6800s are coming with NVDVD, in that case you are good to go. Just download the updated version (1.00.67 is the official version) from the website.
  
  Rand
  
  The full system was configured as follows:
  
  Intel Pentium 4 570J
  Intel D915GUX Motherboard
  2 x 512MB DDR2-533 DIMMs
  Intel HD Audio Enabled
  
  Windows XP SP2 w/ DX9c
  
  Take care,
  Anand