Nvidia Acceleration h.264

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Hi,

I have a h.264 clip but it makes my AMD X2 4400+ goto 100% so obviously the hardware acceleration isn't working, I'm using Purevideo 1.02-223 (Platinum) and drivers 92.91 isn't this supposed to support h.264 acceleration?

In fact when I try and open the clip Nero Showtime seems to be used instead of Purevideo even though this is my preferred decoder?

Any clues

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PCI Express 7800GTX

 

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If I play it through WMP then it seems to use the Nero Codec.

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I would rather just get it working with what I have really.

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So if you click on File>Properties in WMP what does it say is decoding the clip?

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Yep I have DECCHECK installed and it show Purevideo is the preferred but it seems that anything h.264 is always decoded by some other codec, it used to be Nero but since installing PowerDvD it uses that!

Weird thing is that Playback through PowerDVD is pretty good with low CPU (19/25%) usage but if I play back through WMP even though it is using the Cyberlink h.264/AVC Deconder (PDVD7) codec then CPU usage is much higer (75/85%).

It seems that the hardware acceleration is not being applied in WMP10 even though it codec is capable of it

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I use Power DVD 7 with purevideo selected & it works a treat with HD stuff

Yeah it's fine if I use the PowerDVD player but if I use WMP then CPU usage is much higher.

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i say it again, media player 10 is shafted.

OK OK I'm not saying it's not

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As I want acceleration in MCE2005 which uses WMP.

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Er, use a mac

Er, no thanks

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I know what you're saying but all just slightly annoys me with all this blurb from Nvidia about h.264 this/and/that that it just doesn't seem to work!

Problem is my build is pretty old now and I've had some many codec's installed etc. that I think it all gone a bit smelly

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