Good/Fast 1080i MPEG2 decoder?

[oddball]

I've been playing with the various MPEG2 decoders around (Intervideo 7, Cyberlink 7, Elecard latest, GPL etc) and I cannot seem to find a happy medium. Either the decoder is too slow (Especially in VMR or deinterlacing with my favorite deinterlace mode BOB), lacks certain features (I like to tweak the brightness/contrast/gamma etc) or has problems with shimmering fringes using the Nvidia drivers (Overlay bug with quartz.dll and Nvidia drivers). Purevideo seems the best and fastest. But even that bugs out and crahses sometimes. Plus I still get shimmering edges when playing back some interlaced material.

Any other suggestions? I think my AMD XP 3200 is up for most things excepting non-hardware assisted deinterlacing (Especially in VMR mode).

[Eeknay]

You pretty much nailed it. nVidia Purevideo seems to be the fastest based on personal expierence.

Try DScaler 5 with the IVTC mod. It might be too slow for you, but gives the best PQ out of all the MPEG2 decoders. More info here (http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=596942&page=1&pp=30)

[oddball]

Wow! This runs nice! I can even run VMR (Just). Big thanks for the pointer.

[carlo_0000]

i use the old codec fom nvidia (then from nvdvd 2.55) it olso play hdtv very good (mpeg2 only)

[bob0r]

My limited experience with some mpeg2 1080i .ts files is that Nero's mpeg2 decoder really plays these files the best.
Corrupt streams work fine.
Deinterlacing works fine, unlike nvidia's the interlace lines won't go away here (software or hardware mode, ASUS EN7600GT).