Obivously everyone would love these ATI/Nvidia cards to do 95% of the decoding. But everyone should know that these companies have bad track records with offloading the cpu.
Some notes.. please correct me if I am wrong:
Purevideo nvidia drivers require Vista at the moment and will not accelerate under XP.
I hear getting x.264 to decode properly with mkv files are an issue right now. I think its the splitter??
Quality is generally subpar to software decoding. The current best is FFDshow which is single-core only. Cyberlinke H/W decoder is buggy and CoreAVC S/W based will introduce artifacts.
I am anxiously awating the ATI cards. But all of my files are generally mkv and I refuse to upgrade to Vista when XP is better for Mediaportal.
If anyone has questions or comments let me know... this is a warning for those buying the new Nvidia cards. Check avsforum under HTPC.
JPK |