CoreAVC w/ CUDA Support

[King of Heroes]

I've been using CoreAVC for h.264 support for the longest time. Its work beautifully even on single core machines with slightly less than 1GB of RAM (like my parents' machine). It helps that its much, MUCH cheaper than PowerDVD and probably about as fast despite being a software decoder.

Well now, apparently, CoreAVC is now hardware accelerated (starting with 1.9.0.0) via Nvidia's CUDA:

http://www.coreavc.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=27&Itemid=1

I really can't see the reason in paying $90+ for PowerDVD for hardware accelerated h.264 decoding when CoreAVC can now do the same for $15, provided you have an Nvidia graphics card anyway.

 

[dajaga]

well for one the power dvd it has bluray disc support, and can out put the dolby hd and dts hd audio.
coreavc cant play bluray disc but can out put 1080p movie files, h264, mkv 1080p ect.

so if you have no bluray disc but play 1080p movies get the core avc if you have bluray disc and want to play it through your comoputer get power dvd

 

[Toytown]

It helps that its much, MUCH cheaper than PowerDVD and probably about as fast despite being a software decoder.

Its still not as cheap as MPC-HC and Divx/FFDshow decoders, which are free and also decode AVC. MPC-HC also supports hardware acceleration.

It helps that its much, MUCH cheaper than PowerDVD

But CoreAVC is a decoder for H264/AVC only and nothing else, so you still require something to playback your Blurays with.

 

[King of Heroes]

well for one the power dvd it has bluray disc support, and can out put the dolby hd and dts hd audio.
coreavc cant play bluray disc but can out put 1080p movie files, h264, mkv 1080p ect.

But CoreAVC is a decoder for H264/AVC only and nothing else, so you still require something to playback your Blurays with.

Isn't Vista SP2 (and Windows 7) supposed to come with native Blu-ray support? That would solve that problem wouldn't it?

 

[SC385]

Isn't Vista SP2 (and Windows 7) supposed to come with native Blu-ray support? That would solve that problem wouldn't it?

No, i think MS decided that the licensing would be too expensive and the price would have been passed on to the consumer which would result in less sales.

 

[Snowknight26]

Windows 7 includes decoders for the formats that Blu-ray uses, so you could essentially call it Blu-ray support.