Is there any player with support for dvd hardware decoders ?

[LordVader]

I'm looking for a player, with support for hardware decoders.

I have a LuxSonor DVD decoder card (ct7160), but i can't find any player that let me use the card.

Thanks in advance.

[LordVader]

Anyone ?

[Wile_E]

First, It's a Creative product. Most people around here don't think highly of Creative. All DVD players have hardware decoder built-in. Why would you want to use this PCI card? This is for PC only, not made to connect to DVD players.

[LordVader]

mmm.... the Creative Player does not work with this card.

PowerDVD does not allow me to use the card and WinDVD either.

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Most people would say i'm crazy, but I need it because it's all what i have, for monitoring my MPEG-2 encodings in the TV, without having to burn the files on DVD.

Sometimes i just want to check the colors, gamma, brightness, etc, and i have to burn the files on DVD. I can't be doing that all the time.

Anyway.....

The luxsonor DVD player allows me to play DVDs directly from the DVD-ROM but i don't have any option for browsing files.

I love this card, the colors are very precise compared with regular TV outs.

[edDV]

You should ask creative what it does. I found these links.

http://www.baber.com/baber/graphics/tv_tuners/pci.htm
http://www.baber.com/baber/products/creativect7160.htm

[Dragonsf]

mmm.... the Creative Player does not work with this card.

PowerDVD does not allow me to use the card and WinDVD either.

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Most people would say i'm crazy, but I need it because it's all what i have, for monitoring my MPEG-2 encodings in the TV, without having to burn the files on DVD.

Sometimes i just want to check the colors, gamma, brightness, etc, and i have to burn the files on DVD. I can't be doing that all the time.

Anyway.....

The luxsonor DVD player allows me to play DVDs directly from the DVD-ROM but i don't have any option for browsing files.

I love this card, the colors are very precise with regular TV outs.

PowerDVD can play any file in File-mode.You can author and burn your DVD into an ISO image and mount that image with Daemontools too.

[junkmalle]

If the LuxSonor card came with a DirectShow filter you might be able to construct a GraphEdit graph to send MPEG directly to the hardware decoder.

Another hardware option is the Hauppauge WinTV PVR-350. It has a hardware MPEG encoder and decoder. You can run s-video or composite from the PVR-350 to a TV. When you use Hauppauge's WinTV2000 application the MPEG video stream is sent to the PVR-350 for decoding, then out it's video ports.

[Panash]

I wonder if this card is a Sigma Designs Hollywood plus clone?

There is a direct show driver that might make it work

http://www.seemoredigital.net/Sash.html
http://www.leveren.net/mirror/sash/Sash_Hplus-dshow.zip

I would be interested to know how you get on.

PN

[LordVader]

You should ask creative what it does. I found these links.

http://www.baber.com/baber/products/creativect7160.htm

Thank You. That's the one, that's the card. Amazing BTW.

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PowerDVD can play any file in File-mode.You can author and burn your DVD into an ISO image and mount that image with Daemontools too.

I need my hardware decoder babe.

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If the LuxSonor card came with a DirectShow filter you might be able to construct a GraphEdit graph to send MPEG directly to the hardware decoder.

You know what ?, That's the program i was looking for a couple of days ago, but i couldn't rememer the name. I'll give it a try, thanks.

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I wonder if this card is a Sigma Designs Hollywood plus clone?

There is a direct show driver that might make it work.

Sure this works on XP ? , i'll give it a shot.