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<blockquote data-quote="gxtracker" data-source="post: 40440" data-attributes="member: 14004">The forum link to that thread you provided was actually an interesting read! :lol: Unfortunatly there was a lot of misinformation being spread around.Post number 13 in that thread has the poster listing a bunch of links that don't say the FX5200 supports VPE - which basically means hes concluding that it doesnt support VPE simply because it doesnt say it does support it - thats a pretty weak argument.Even so, VPE is not DXVA. VPE is Nvidia's Video Processing Engine, which later evolved into what they call PureVideo. DxVA is simple a small portion of what the VPE in the FX line can do.Here's a glossary of terms; you'll find DXVA in the middle of the first post. <a href="http://htpcnews.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=2117" target="_blank">http://htpcnews.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=2117</a>And here's Wikipedia for the FX series card. Right in the overview it states the support of DXVA through Nvidia's VPE: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeForce_FX" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeForce_FX</a>As for your question about codecs, im sorry I can't answer that for you as im just not knowledgable enough on that subject. What I can answer is how you test if DXVA is being used - play a HD H.264 video file. On my lowly XP 1900+ with a FX5200 I can play 1080 content with CPU usage never hitting 50%. If DXVA wasn't used... The video would probably look like a slide show. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big Grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="gxtracker, post: 40440, member: 14004"] The forum link to that thread you provided was actually an interesting read! :lol: Unfortunatly there was a lot of misinformation being spread around. Post number 13 in that thread has the poster listing a bunch of links that don't say the FX5200 supports VPE - which basically means hes concluding that it doesnt support VPE simply because it doesnt say it does support it - thats a pretty weak argument. Even so, VPE is not DXVA. VPE is Nvidia's Video Processing Engine, which later evolved into what they call PureVideo. DxVA is simple a small portion of what the VPE in the FX line can do. Here's a glossary of terms; you'll find DXVA in the middle of the first post. [url]http://htpcnews.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=2117[/url] And here's Wikipedia for the FX series card. Right in the overview it states the support of DXVA through Nvidia's VPE: [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeForce_FX[/url] As for your question about codecs, im sorry I can't answer that for you as im just not knowledgable enough on that subject. What I can answer is how you test if DXVA is being used - play a HD H.264 video file. On my lowly XP 1900+ with a FX5200 I can play 1080 content with CPU usage never hitting 50%. If DXVA wasn't used... The video would probably look like a slide show. :D [/QUOTE]

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