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<blockquote data-quote="Spif" data-source="post: 312439" data-attributes="member: 17833">With a motherboard based on the AMD 780G chipset there is an integrated Radeon HD3200 graphics card. That Radeon series has the UVD+ (video decoding) engine. See Wikipedia more info on UVD. Anyway, it has great support for decoding HD-encoded content. The only problem is that , as far as I know, only Cyberlink has a codec that supports this chipset. You need to have Cyberlink PowerDVD 8 Ultra installed to get the necessary codec to do HW-accelerated decoding. Once that is installed you need to enable Radeon support somewhere in the settings for PowerDVD.Using that codec I was able to watch a 1080p .ts-file using only 10% cpu when the CPU was running at 1GHz! Picture quality was about the same as with CoreAVC but it was totally smooth all the time.Now, it seems a bit odd to me that it is necessary to buy a $100 piece of software to utilize the full potential of an $80 motherboard. In my opinion AMD should sell the necessary codecs themselves.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Spif, post: 312439, member: 17833"] With a motherboard based on the AMD 780G chipset there is an integrated Radeon HD3200 graphics card. That Radeon series has the UVD+ (video decoding) engine. See Wikipedia more info on UVD. Anyway, it has great support for decoding HD-encoded content. The only problem is that , as far as I know, only Cyberlink has a codec that supports this chipset. You need to have Cyberlink PowerDVD 8 Ultra installed to get the necessary codec to do HW-accelerated decoding. Once that is installed you need to enable Radeon support somewhere in the settings for PowerDVD. Using that codec I was able to watch a 1080p .ts-file using only 10% cpu when the CPU was running at 1GHz! Picture quality was about the same as with CoreAVC but it was totally smooth all the time. Now, it seems a bit odd to me that it is necessary to buy a $100 piece of software to utilize the full potential of an $80 motherboard. In my opinion AMD should sell the necessary codecs themselves. [/QUOTE]

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