Purevideo - What do I really need?

You need an Nvidia Graphics Card that supports PureVideo.

You can see if your video card is supported by going here:

http://www.nvidia.com/page/purevideo_support.html

Then if your card is listed... make sure you look at Desktop vs Mobile and AGP vs PCI-Express to correctly identify your card.

After that... if all is well... then the PureVideo decoder will start offloading your video processing needs to your GPU instead of your CPU - which the GPU is better suited to handle and frees your CPU to worry about the other 50 processes running in the background and foreground.

The video quality will improve also over the PowerDVD 5/6 dvd decoders.

It's just a video CODEC for media. You will notice (shold notice) a difference when watching movies and so forth. Not games and such.

-Doc

PureVideo is a "pay for" piece of software isn't it?

fck me Doc,

"Far Cry, I like the game so much I moved there?"


very green monster here, have fun

you could definitely tell a difference from previous drivers, when watching crappy movies downloaded from the torrent sites.

you can download PureVideo from Limewire

thanks, just found a copy floating on the pirate bay dot org

does it only work in media player?
how about powerdvd, nero, media player classic?

I'm reading their FAQ now

http://nvidia.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/n...i=&p_topview=1

you can get media player 10 free for starters from msn

That's a good way to put it! Unfortunately I don't get to sneak around in the jungle with a suppressed MP5. On the plus side, nobody shoots at our dive boats.

-Doc

Theatertek

The best way to "see" purevideo in all of it's Glory is to use the media player Theatertek. They've inteagrated Nvidia's codec's into the player, and optimized it's output for Nvidia GPU'S.

Very nice on the 1920x1200 panel

theatertak looks interesting but $79

Purevideo IQ in media player 10 is great, better than nero showtime, powerdvd 5, or media player classic

...still grumbling about the MP10 inteface though, I really like MP classic on my desktop (unsuppored purevideo card there)

does anyone know if the PV codec can be used in MP classic or nero showtime? I cant find anything to suggest that myself

thanks

I have a few questions about MP10.

Can someone explain the following section of the Pure Video FAQ? I have no idea what any of the four options really mean or which I should be using for best video quality when watching video files or DVDs on my computer.

Thanks,

-Doc

I installed the free-30day trial you find here: http://www.nvidia.com/object/dvd_decoder.html

But I don't get how it works???

What you really need is WInDVD, TheaterTek or Zoom Player.
Purevideo failed to impress me even on my 9300.

The FAQ quotes postet by Doc Caliban above: I do not understand a word of it.

Anyhow, I can report that I installed the Purevideo thing. Mainly because I wanted a cooler CPU when playing DVD's, with less fan noise. I got a new taskbar icon with lots of new settings, so obviously the installation went well. I used WMP10 for this to work. In the Purevideo settings "Hardware acceleration" was on as default, and it made me feel very optimistic at first. However, I could detect no difference at all, with the different settings. Same amount of CPU usage. Same fan noise. Same picture quality, as far as I could see. Uninstalled.

(Something is essentially wrong with DVD playback on the 9300, in my opinion. One thing is the Purecrap thing and the appearent need for specialized knowledge to be able to read the different FAQ's and stuff. But for me it is the noise, mainly. Then the fan noise is only the smaller part. The noise and vibration from the drive itself is worse. It sometimes makes makes the whole table shake and tremble! My first laptop with DVD was a Toshiba Tecra 266Mhz with hw decoder, bought in 1998: It still runs exemplary: Completely quiet, cool, smooth etc. Same thing with even the cheapest stand-alone players I have seen, costing less than the ram chip of the Dell).

if the drive does the same thing with different dvds then its kaput, RMA it to dell

I just got the nec6750 and I can reccommend it (but my dell TSS cdrw was silent, so I think its just bad luck)

I think you need the newer nvidia drivers to get the best of PV

I'm running tony's 84.12s and the PV definately gives the best picture of my software bunch

(still playing around and experimenting)

Remove the drive and reseat (reinstall) it. This has solved the problem for many.

Cool, I just downloaded their trial version. It installs nvidia's decoder, and makes it the preferred decoder for all players.

The theatertek trial lasts one week. I wonder if the decoder they install also has a timebomb....