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Originally Posted by PAH  It would help if the PureVideo player was available for trial download so we could see if it's worth using or offers nothing substantial over the forceware stuff. Anybody got the PureVideo player and got any thoughts on it over Vista MCE, Theatretek, PowerDVD, etc? |
Don't understand what you mean by Purevideo player, I've never come across something like that....It is really simple...
nVidia Force - Graphics drivers for nVidia cards only
nVidia Purevideo Software - Codec necessary to play MPEG material; i.e. DVD's. Later (current) versions can also handle HD-DVD and Blue-Ray, it was already able to do Transport Streams (.ts) which is mainly MPEG2 and some H.264 encoding. You don't need an nVidia graphics card to use this software, however if you have an nVidia Graphics card and a current Forceware version for the drivers and the Purevideo chip (simplified way of describing it) as not all nVidia graphics cards have the same capabilities. Then the software can use hardware accelleration and thus reducing the load on your CPU. If you have an ATI card for example you can still use the Purevideo software codec which is still good quality but don't get the hardware accellaration capabilities that you do get with some nVidia cards.
Now in order to actually watch anything, you require player software and this is where Windows Media Player comes in (which is what I use) or some people prefer others....
Hope this clarifies it a little...