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Hello all,

Looking for a PCI-E graphics cards, as cheap as possible, just for playing HD movies... avi's/mp4s etc..

I've read about the S3 cards, but can't find a UK supplier?
 
Ideal, thanks bud - will the card do the HD decoding? It's going in a AMD 3400+, which stutters with the HD as it stands..
 
No, it doesn't feature UVD. Even if it had UVD it would not accelerate AVI and MP4.

Edit: it is also a low profile card and is out of stock.
 
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If you want the card for playing back HD .avi and .mkv files, you'll be out of luck. Video cards only accelerate a small number of video formats, e.g. blu rays.
 
elpedro said:
don't see how it being low profile makes any difference tho :confused:
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It'll only fit low profile cases. Unless it comes with a full size PCI bracket, which isn't stated in the description.

elpedro said:
£3 more and in stock - http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-164-AS
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That still doesn't do video decoding.


To the OP: I'd suggest an nVidia 8600, can be had for about £40 brand new and supports DXVA. You will be able to decode compatible HD MKV files with the 8600 using MPC-HC.
 
user1453 said:
It is possible to get mkvs decoded on a gfx card with kmplaery, I had a 4850 deecoding 1080P mkvs before I upgraded to i7
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Depends on how they are encoded to be honest, some 1080p h264 will be accelerated, some wont. At least that is my experience using MPC home cinema edition and an ATI 3400 card (and tons of other apps before deciding that was the best one for ATI cards).

My advice is get an Nvidia card as CoreAVC now supports CUDA
 
The 3450 accelerates MKVs and MP4's fine with the right codec, I get about 3% cpu when watching them within Media Center. MPC codec or Windows 7's own built in h.264.
 
As long as you use the MPC - Homecinema codecs any of those cards will offload h.264 to the card.
One cavet of that however is that the file MUST be profile 4.1, but pretty much all encodes done now are.
 
As others have mentioned....

I have a old athlon XP paired with a HD2400pro AGP (yes you heard right).

Once you know how to get DXVA working with MPCHC you're in heaven. (I had problems due to the ATI drivers not supporting AGP)

I now enjoy silky smooth playback of 720p/1080p material with literally 5-10% cpu usage :)
 
Hopefully once DX11 and Compute Shaders [and more to the point for free players, Open CL, the open source variant] are out, hopefully this problem will go away entirely. :)
 
As already mentioned, CoreAVC supports CUDA and works really well. Not to mention its also the best looking codec package i've used!
 
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