Nvidia GeForce 2 MX 400 video card question

Hi All, I'm just wondering if any of you know if this video card has built in DVD decoding capabilities or not. I heard a rumor that it does, but I don't know. I also checked and they didn't have any info about this issue.

Windows Hardware 9627 This topic was started by shassouneh, 2001-11-13 07:22

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shassouneh

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#68882

2001-11-13 08:22

Hi All,
I'm just wondering if any of you know if this video card has built in DVD decoding capabilities or not. I heard a rumor that it does, but I don't know. I also checked www.nvidia.com and they didn't have any info about this issue. Again this video card is:

Nvidia GeForce 2 Mx 400 AGP 4x (64MB).

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Palos

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#68883

2001-11-13 11:23

Its the chip not the card. There are a lot of manufacturers out there that build cards based on this GF2 MX400 chip. And yes, it has some hardware DVD decoding capabilities, but not as good as with ATI cards. I think it cannot do iDCT, im not sure tho.

shassouneh

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#68884

2001-11-13 11:45

Well the CHIP is probably a GeForce2 MX 400. The CARD is an eVGA card. Please, if someone knows more about this card / chip let me know; I really need to know if it can decode DVDs!

RandyC

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#68885

2001-11-14 12:56

I know the Geforce2MX chipset does do hardware MPEG decoding. So the answer to your question is Yes.

shassouneh

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#68886

2001-11-14 16:40

Thanx! Do i need to hook up my DVD drive in any special way to the video card? it does not seem to have any funky connections or anything!

RandyC

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#68887

2001-11-14 19:52

Nope all you need to do is to play dvd's through a player that supports it like powerdvd. I personally dont have a dvd drive but I have used one on a PC with the same graphics card and dvd's play fine with no slowdown unlike playing them on my old rivaTNT card with software decoding.

RandyC