Nvidia GeForce 2 MX 400 video card question

[shassouneh 0]

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).

 

Thanx for reading this post!

[Palos 0]

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 0]

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 0]

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

[shassouneh 0]

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 0]

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

[Palos 0]

The DVD player software (PowerDVD) will give you the option to "use hardware acceleration" for decoding in the "video options" tab.

[shassouneh 0]

Cool. Thanx sooo much everyone. I really appreciate it! :-)