MPEG2 hardware acceleration with PowerDVD

[aye29]

I'm using PowerDVD 7.3 Ultra Delux to play HDTV TS files but if I go into video settings, the Video Acceleration checkbox is grayed out. I have an nVidia 7800Gt video card with the latest drivers and video acceleration is available if I am playing an HD DVD movie. Is there any to get use that option for regular TS files? I am running Vista.

[Carpo]

i think you need to install nvidia puervideo (if you havent already) for it to do hardware/video acceleration

[arfster]

Nah, PDVD can do hardware acceleration on MPEG2 - Nvidia licenced purevideo to them, so it's basically the same as the NVidia decoder now.

[KoD]

PowerDVD did hardware mpeg2 acceleration since before nvidia started to make their own mpeg2 decoder and sell it under the name "Purevideo".