Can my 9700Pro decode Hi Def optical

No. I had an Athlon XP 3200+ with a Radeon X800 XT up until December 2006 and it would not have been able to decode VC-1 or H.264 of the bitrates that are used in BD or HD-DVD. It was only just able to decode 1080P H.264 trailers from the Apple website but not the 8 MB HD-DVD 1080P trailers from the HD-DVD website. I upgraded to a Pentium Core 2 Duo E6400 now and it does the job effortlessly but I need a new graphics adapter because pre-X1600 Radeons seem to have a problem with VC1 in my experience. Neither my 9700 PRO nor my X800 XT can play HD-DVDs without putting out a completely garbled picture in PowerDVD.


I ordered an X1950 Pro with HDCP for my HTPC now. Maybe a future driver or PowerDVD update will fix VC-1 playback on old cards but I'm not going to wait for that myself, I'm not too optimistic.



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Originally Posted by tahustvedt /forum/post/0


Here's what HD-DVDs in PowerDVD look like with a Radeon 9700 PRO or X800 XT.


Link to a picture:
http://www.enrarot.net/images/pdvd01.jpg

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Those B&W speakers in the background?


Did you have hardware acceleration turned on or off?



My point was that going full cpu decode, the 9700pro SHOULD be able to output the image properly, even if it can do any decode assist.