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    Will the 8400 in the XPS 1330 do hardware h264 decoding?

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by WilliamG, Jul 8, 2007.

  1. WilliamG

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    This is not something I've seen addressed, so I was wondering if the 8400 is capable of doing h264 like the desktop 8500 and 8600 cards.
     
    WilliamG, Jul 8, 2007
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    PhoenixFx, Jul 8, 2007
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  3. RyanHurtt

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    I second what Phoenix said. I was just looking at it last night because I bought an HDTV and was hoping my 1330 would upconvert and everything on the nVidia site led me to yes. :)
     
    RyanHurtt, Jul 8, 2007
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    will the quadro 140M too?
    i know it's basically an 8400, but i was wondering if the driver disables that
     
    syxbit, Jul 8, 2007
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    Well looking here seems to suggest yes: http://www.nvidia.com/object/quadro_nvs_notebook_fbs.html

    then again I have a geforce go 6800 which apparently has h.264 decoding according to the nvidia site, but ive never been able to get it to work.
     
    speedy21589, Jul 8, 2007
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    You also have to be using one of the media players that can take advantage of the hardware decoding offered by PureVideo HD. No only is CPU usage reduced, but offloading to the GPU also lowers power consumption (at least based on tests on the desktop).
     
    chuck232, Jul 8, 2007
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