Purevideo - Is it even being used outside of DVD? (1 Viewer)

[Taipan]

Does the nVidia codec work well with ATI GPU?

Yes, it does, except that you cannot use the post-processing that is designed for the nVIDIA cards.

but is there a quality increase over DScaler without the post processing?

Quality is similar to DScaler with the nVIDIA de-interlacing being a little better, but the big bonus is that since the nVIDIA uses DxVA (which DScaler doesn't) then the CPU % is much lower.

 

[Tau C Seti]

Does the nVidia codec work well with ATI GPU?
I understand the hardware post processing won't work, but is there a quality increase over DScaler without the post processing?

There are small differences. ATI blames nvidia, nvidia blames ATI... :roll:

The PureVideo decoder is theoretically independent of whether you have an ATI or nVidia GPU (in theory) as it uses standard DxVA in DirectX 9 for hardware acceleration, but....Two annoying things may occur....

1- a small percentage of DVD titles playback badly (i.e. Baby Einstein series, Space Travesty 2001 ..... They resulted in bad pixelisation.
2- you dont get access to the MCE embedded control panel from nvidia.

Use Overlay as the Video Renderer as it forces hardware acceleration

 

[Taipan]

Use Overlay as the Video Renderer as it forces hardware acceleration

Sorry to disagree, but don't use overlay as the video renderer - VMR9 is much better.

You can set DxVA hardware acceleration from within the nVIDIA properties page - accessed by clicking on the nVIDIA icon in your System Tray when playing a DVD or TV.