decoders compared

[wannabepvr]

Found this article comparing decoders from Nvidia and ATI. It speaks specifically about DVD, but I expect it is relevant to all MPEG2 (?)

Purevideo comes up heavy on CPU and light on quality...

http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/12/18/a...dissected/

[sub]

Thanks, but you're late to the party. This is the third time I've seen this posted on the forums today.

[wannabepvr]

oops!

[mmatheny]

Link removed - wonder why???

[K.S.]

lawyer's action? who cares, here's a still functioning link

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/2006/12/18...sected-uk/

[nitrogen_widget]

Jeez that's a long article.

Can you use AVIVO on an nvidia card?

Because you can use purevideo on an ATI card.

[K.S.]

good stuff indeed. why would you want to use purevideo with an ati card and vice versa? doen't really make sense, the most you get out of it is in the hardware, or have i misunderstood everything?

[nitrogen_widget]

good stuff indeed. why would you want to use purevideo with an ati card and vice versa? doen't really make sense, the most you get out of it is in the hardware, or have i misunderstood everything?

That's what I was thinking.
It's more of a hardware paired with software instead of just a software comparison.

[Ted the Penguin]

actually, I think you can use the purevideo decoder on a ATI card and have hardware acceleration enabled (I think it does DXVA), and it will use AVIVO.

[pBS]

hmmm,link says "story has been removed"
probably a flamer or flawed testing...
man, can't trust anyone on the net anymore...lol
iirc, that data is about a year old...from when avivo first came out...
but not sure cuz it's gone...