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Posted: December 14th, 2004
It has been overly common over the past several years for graphics cards to natively support hardware accelerated video playback however encoding and decoding video streams has been left to the processor. Starting from the Geforce 6 series GPU's Nvidia has integrated what is a fully capable video hardware encoder and decoder, in essence a chip within the graphics chip itself. With this its possible to utilize it and therefore relieve the system processor from such tasks, taking advantage of its acceleration decoding features lacks any need for changes to existing files or programs. In order to use it for encoding software support is necessary nevertheless the industry has already spoken of plans to include it in future releases, as for example in After Effects suite by Adobe. Below is a complete rundown of the features offered by Nvidia's NV4x (Geforce 6 series) video processor:
- High Quality Video
- Complete HDTV Solution
- Complete PVR Solution - HDCP Support
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