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<blockquote data-quote="Anonymous" data-source="post: 6185"><p>Its not a video card actually, its a dedicated MPEG decoder. It has hardware support for a bunch of MPEG formats including MPEG1, MPEG2, and a number of MPEG4-based codecs like Divx 3, Divx 4/5, and Xvid. I can attest that it does do a fantastic job of displaying them on a TV. Decoding other formats is a little tricky, unfortunately. <a href="http://www.8dim.com" target="_blank">8 Dimension's</a> player TVEdia (formerly JovePlayer) gets aroud this by re-encoding unsupported formats into MPEG on the fly and sending them to the card. I'm not sure if the Media Portal devs are willing to use such a kludge of a trick to support the card. Furthermore, I don't think SigmaDesigns has been forthcoming with an SDK or details about their API, and I doubt 8 Dimensions will help, considering they've pretty much got the Xcard market cornered (Sigma's own player is pretty sad). It'd still be great if you did, though. I love my Xcard, and would really like to use an open/alternative product with it, especially since TVEdia's been getting slower with every release.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Anonymous, post: 6185"] Its not a video card actually, its a dedicated MPEG decoder. It has hardware support for a bunch of MPEG formats including MPEG1, MPEG2, and a number of MPEG4-based codecs like Divx 3, Divx 4/5, and Xvid. I can attest that it does do a fantastic job of displaying them on a TV. Decoding other formats is a little tricky, unfortunately. [url=http://www.8dim.com]8 Dimension's[/url] player TVEdia (formerly JovePlayer) gets aroud this by re-encoding unsupported formats into MPEG on the fly and sending them to the card. I'm not sure if the Media Portal devs are willing to use such a kludge of a trick to support the card. Furthermore, I don't think SigmaDesigns has been forthcoming with an SDK or details about their API, and I doubt 8 Dimensions will help, considering they've pretty much got the Xcard market cornered (Sigma's own player is pretty sad). It'd still be great if you did, though. I love my Xcard, and would really like to use an open/alternative product with it, especially since TVEdia's been getting slower with every release. [/QUOTE]
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