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:	post by menstrual_sweatpants_disco at 2005-07-26 14:08:30

the_reverend said:

http://www.overclockers.com/tips00681/
and they talk about the WMV hardware excelleration being missing from the 6800 (although they claim it does) and the 6600 doing it.

When those cards were coming out nVidia made a big deal about the video decoder on it. It was like 8 months later that they finally released the drivers for it though.

AnandTech said:

Eight months.

We'll let you think about that once more.

Eight months.

Eight months have passed since NVIDIA introduced the GeForce 6800 and its Video Processor and today, after eight long months of waiting with no explanation, we can finally take advantage of it. The wait is over, NVIDIA's PureVideo DVD decoder and drivers are publicly available for download. GeForce 6 owners can finally take advantage of the ~20 million transistors set aside for NVIDIA's "Video Processor" through the driver and codec that are being released today.

AnandTech said:

There are two parts to the software side of PureVideo - the GPU driver and the PureVideo DVD decoder. The driver is simply a version of the ForceWare 67.01 driver, the PureVideo DVD decoder is the latest update to NVIDIA's NVDVD decoder - version 1.00.65. The GPU driver is obviously available free to the public, while the PureVideo DVD decoder sells for $19.99 due to associated royalties. The PureVideo DVD decoder is available as a 30-day free trial from NVIDIA's website.

Here's that article: http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2305