re: H264 support

[sub]

Yeah, I'll be interested to hear how you get on.

[sbiddle]

The NVidia is way better. The EVR issue with picture breakup that was occuring with the ATI has gone and 1080i content is way smoother.

[Deusxmachina]

I've just picked up an 8500GT so it will be interesting to test that.

True that. My 8500GT should be arriving tomorrow. Hmm, it's 4:30am. I guess it will be arriving today.

For those who may not know, the current (new?) PowerDVD decoder, PDVD7, should do everything that Nvidia PureVideo decoder can do, including accelerate h.264 with a card that has UVD. The current Media Player Classic should have h.264 UVD hardware acceleration, too, but I'm too dumb right now to remember what decoder it's using.

Of course, after the new PVRx2 install, I started getting black screens on Live TV with PDVD7 (and Dscaler), and then switched to MPV and everything was fine. Why I keep looking for greener grass than Gabest MPV, I don't know. With the 8500GT, I'll feel obligated to test PDVD7 with acceleration, however.