MillG400Max has MPEG-1 decoder?

[yjanni]

I am somewhat of an newbie with these issues, but I have read a lot on DVDs lately and found an interesting claim on one page:

You see, all these cards have what is called 'Hyped DVD Acceleration'...[snip]..These cards hype the very old MPEG-1 acceleration as DVD acceleration which in fact, is
something that most cards already implemented back in 1995.
(http://www.inmatrix.com/pcfaq.html)

Is this true?
And could someone clarify the issue -
Does this affect the picture(quality)?
Is it possible to use MPEG-1 for MPEG-2
decoding?
Basically - WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN?!?!?!?!??

J

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[Echo|Fox]

You'll notice that a lot of video card companies hype their DVD acceleration, which is usually followed my a mention of it being software based, or SoftDVD, and such.
There is _no_ acceleration being done here. Someone told me it had sometthing to do with DirectX Overlays, yadda yadda. =)
So no, the G400, the GeForce, the TNT2Ultra et all, do not have hardware DVD decoding.
As for an MPEG-1 decoder, I doubt it. And it wouldn't work for MPEG-2, if it did exist. Very similar, but very different beasts.


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[Gurm]

What happens in hardware is video ASSISTANCE. The video card does things like overlays, and hardware upscaling, and hardware interpolation, and YUV conversion and whatnot, leaving the CPU free to spend more time doing what it SHOULD be doing, which is decode a binary stream of data into a video frame.

- Ash

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