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<blockquote data-quote="coopers" data-source="post: 133948" data-attributes="member: 16116">Hi folks,I am wondering if someone can set me straight on a few basics.I notice that for things like Purevideo and Avivo, most players (PowerDVD, WMplayer etc) have a check box that you use to turn on &quot;hardware acceleration&quot; and then you also muck around in the actual Purevideo/Avivo software to set up what you want to accelerate.So where is this button in mediaportal?Now also, as far as I know, the graphics cards can only offload mpeg2 (and the later ones are doing other stuff, mpeg4, etc), so what if I want to play a divx or xvid file - is that NOT going to be able to be HW assisted?If I want to postprocess divx or xvid, can I use something like ffdshow? Can you set ffdshow up so that it is &quot;disabled&quot; when playing something mpeg2 that the graphics card can accelerate? I would only want ffdshow to intervene when playing something the HW can't accelerate for example.Lastly, if I am watching broadcast TV - this is mpeg2 here in Australia. Is the mpeg2 passed directly to the player so that it can be Hardware accelerated in it's decode by my graphics card? Or, is the DVB-T doing that?thanks in advance!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="coopers, post: 133948, member: 16116"] Hi folks, I am wondering if someone can set me straight on a few basics. I notice that for things like Purevideo and Avivo, most players (PowerDVD, WMplayer etc) have a check box that you use to turn on "hardware acceleration" and then you also muck around in the actual Purevideo/Avivo software to set up what you want to accelerate. So where is this button in mediaportal? Now also, as far as I know, the graphics cards can only offload mpeg2 (and the later ones are doing other stuff, mpeg4, etc), so what if I want to play a divx or xvid file - is that NOT going to be able to be HW assisted? If I want to postprocess divx or xvid, can I use something like ffdshow? Can you set ffdshow up so that it is "disabled" when playing something mpeg2 that the graphics card can accelerate? I would only want ffdshow to intervene when playing something the HW can't accelerate for example. Lastly, if I am watching broadcast TV - this is mpeg2 here in Australia. Is the mpeg2 passed directly to the player so that it can be Hardware accelerated in it's decode by my graphics card? Or, is the DVB-T doing that? thanks in advance! [/QUOTE]

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