WM9 acceleration on Nvidia cards

[ivan_alias]

Microsoft has patched Windows XP to allow the operating system to decode Windows Media Video HD movies using an Nvidia GeForce 6 series GPU.

On The register here: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/06/08/ms_dxva_patch/

and info from MS here:

http://www.support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;888656

Wonder if this will really give the promised 40% reduction in CPU load!?

[Sharktooth]

The patch is available since some days... if you had searched before posting you would have found those 2 threads:
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=95066
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=95158
And btw, yes... it works.

[Sirber]

Same for ATI, if you use .NET drivers.