Here are some key features of "NVIDIA DVD Decoder":

· Enables DVD viewing with Microsoft® Windows Media® Player or Microsoft Windows® Media Center Edition
·Enables TV playback for Microsoft Windows Media Center Edition. (A TV tuner is required to capture and tune the TV channels.)
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High quality MPEG-2 decoder supports any third party software application
· based upon Microsoft DirectShow
· Dolby Digital surround sound decoding
· Minimizes CPU utilization by offloading the MPEG-2 decoding onto the graphics processor
· Enables playback of ATSC and DVB transport streams in Windows Media Ceter and Windows Media Player.
· Supports Windows Mobile-based Portable Media Centers allowing end users to transcode MPEG-2 content into Windows Media Video 9
· S/PDIF pass-through for external decoding of Dolby Digital and DTS (compatible hardware required)


Technical Specifications
· Fully compliant ISO MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 video and audio decoder
· MPEG-2 acceleration for inverse quantization (IQ), inverse discrete cosine
· transform (IDCT), and motion compensation (mo comp)
· Microsoft DirectShow support
· Microsoft DirectX Video Acceleration support
· Microsoft Video Mixing Renderer 7 and 9
· Overlay support
· Sub-picture support
· Transport stream file reader for Windows Media Player and Windows Media
· Center


NVIDIA PureVideo Decoder supports all Microsoft DirectX 8.x compatible chips, including:
· NVIDIA GeForce 7 Series
· NVIDIA GeForce 6 Series
· NVIDIA GeForce4 family
· NVIDIA GeForce FX family
· NVIDIA Quadro® family
· NVIDIA Quadro2 family
· NVIDIA Quadro DCC family
· NVIDIA Quadro4 family
· NVIDIA Quadro FX family
· NVIDIA nForce family
· NVIDIA nForce2 family
· ATI® Radeon family
· Intel® i915
· Intel® i865
· Intel® i845G
· Intel i815G/i815EG

Audio Chips Supported:
· NVIDIA nForce Audio
· Creative Labs® Ensoniq Audio PCI
· Creative Labs Sound Blaster 16 PCI
· Creative Labs Sound Blaster 16 +Wa
· Creative Labs Sound Blaster 512 3D
· Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audig
· Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audig
· Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audig
· Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audig
· Creative Labs Sound Blaster Live! 5
· Creative Labs Sound Blaster Live! 5
· Creative Labs Sound Blaster Live! 5
· Creative Labs Sound Blaster Live! 5
· Philips® Rhythmic Edge PCI
· Turtle Beach Santa Cruz
· SIIG® Soundwave Pro PCI 32-bit