New Nvidia driver - H.264? (1 Viewer)

[SweMart]

Hi,

Just a stupid question regarding the new H.264 support supplied with the new Nvidia driver. I found this statement:

NVIDIA PureVideo™ HD driver with support for the following features: 
Hardware acceleration of H.264, VC-1 and MPEG-2 HD movie formats.

What does this actually mean?

1. Will I be able to view H.264 content using the PureVideo codec(which I thought was MPEG2 only)?

2. Or will this make the PowerDVD 7 H.264 support work better? I.e. require less CPU power

3. Will this assist the CoreAVC plugin by offloading the CPU?

Cheers,
Martin

 

[sebrock]

Hi,

Just a stupid question regarding the new H.264 support supplied with the new Nvidia driver. I found this statement:

NVIDIA PureVideo™ HD driver with support for the following features: 
Hardware acceleration of H.264, VC-1 and MPEG-2 HD movie formats.

What does this actually mean?

1. Will I be able to view H.264 content using the PureVideo codec(which I thought was MPEG2 only)?

2. Or will this make the PowerDVD 7 H.264 support work better? I.e. require less CPU power

3. Will this assist the CoreAVC plugin by offloading the CPU?

Cheers,
Martin

I have the same questions. Also I cant get a 1080p movie from Apple (h.264) to run at all. PowerDVD just hangs by it.

 

[SweMart]

I have the same questions. Also I cant get a 1080p movie from Apple (h.264) to run at all. PowerDVD just hangs by it.

Which player do you use? QuickTime or PowerDVD?

I've only tried the following content:
- .mk4 H.264 DivX files
- .ts capture streams recorded during the World Cup this summer

I can get both to play in MP(and WMP) but it suffers from a bit of stuttering, with both PowerDVD7 or CoreAVC as codec.

Still haven't dared to update the driver since the 9X.X series doesn't seem to allow me to trick my graphics adapter to send 50Hz to my Samsung LCD.

 

[sebrock]

I have the same questions. Also I cant get a 1080p movie from Apple (h.264) to run at all. PowerDVD just hangs by it.

Which player do you use? QuickTime or PowerDVD?

I've only tried the following content:
- .mk4 H.264 DivX files
- .ts capture streams recorded during the World Cup this summer

I can get both to play in MP(and WMP) but it suffers from a bit of stuttering, with both PowerDVD7 or CoreAVC as codec.

Still haven't dared to update the driver since the 9X.X series doesn't seem to allow me to trick my graphics adapter to send 50Hz to my Samsung LCD.

Ok, just for the record, I'm swedish aswell. If you want to discuss this matter in swedish please PM me.

I have only tried Apple Trailers 1080p which are h.264. As I would guess these should be "straight forward" 1080p movies with no hussle. Still cant play them. The 720p movies playes just fine. Do you know if there is any other difference except the quality 720/1080p?

I have also only tried to play them in PowerDVD7. And it does not work at all. PD7 hangs. Otherwise I'm not sure if these last drivers actually improved anything. I would dare to say that it has even worsened my WMV-HD playback.

Do you know of a .mk4 H.264 DivX file that I can download just tho check? I think the .ts would work fine.

 

[reagan+carter]

1. Will I be able to view H.264 content using the PureVideo codec(which I thought was MPEG2 only)?

2. Or will this make the PowerDVD 7 H.264 support work better? I.e. require less CPU power

3. Will this assist the CoreAVC plugin by offloading the CPU?

1. no

2. maybe (?)

3. no

 

[mPod]

All "No", but this one...

2. Or will this make the PowerDVD 7 H.264 support work better? I.e. require less CPU power

That's a "Yes". That's true for all H.264 codecs that support PureVideo HD acceleration. (CoreAVC is pure software, no HD HW acceleration.)

 

[sebrock]

yes except my copy of PowerDVD 7 just hangs when HW-acceleration is enabled with h.264

 

[SweMart]

Have you tried this patch:
http://www.cyberlink.com/multi/download/dl_patch_354_1_ENU.html

(Found something about it at minhembio.com)

 

[Paranoid Delusion]

Remember guy's, you will need a 6600GT or above (or ATI equivalent) graphics card for 1080 viewing.

A standard 6600 will give stuttering video.

 

[Roberdin]

I've had no problems with my trusty old 6200 :/

But to be fair, I am only watching it on a 19" (1280x1024) monitor.