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Message: <blockquote data-quote="VicBond007" data-source="post: 238827" data-attributes="member: 68139"><p>For h.264, NVidia decided not to write a decoder, but rather license out the code needed to reference the necessary hardware functions to 3rd party developers.  To add confusion, they call this technology "PureVideo HD" which is easily confused with the (very different) mpeg2 CODEC called "PureVideo".  PDVD 7.3 is one of the few that can use all of the h.264 decoding features and the player installs it's own Directshow codecs, but your 7-series card only does h.264 deblocking anyways IIRC (There's a chart buried somewhere on nvidia.com).  CoreAVC has an option for "enable hardware deblocking" but I have no way to test if it's actually working since deblocking a) isn't done every frame anyways and b) is way less CPU intensive than the actual act of rendering 1920x1080 pixels 24+ times a second :-/</p></blockquote><p></p>