Video Card W/MPEG2 Decoder

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Is there a video card out there that has a built in MPEG2 Decoder? I know that the newer cards are supposed to have MPEG2 Decode Accelerators but I don't think this translates into full decoders. Where would I get a MPEG2 Decoder Card?
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IBM (RealMagic) is a popular one. But y do u need it ? new video cards can handle mpeg 2.

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I'm building a Windows Media Center 2005 PVR/Media Server PC that is going to live in my living room and I want to make it as quiet as possible. So I'm planning to passively cool an underclocked and undervolted Moble Athlon XP. In order to make this as workable as possible I want to take as much of the Encode/Decode burden off the CPU as I can. Hence the need for a MPEG2 Decoder. My preference is to get one that lives on a Video card so I can save myself some PCI card space and maybe do a Micro ATX board.
 

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VIVO / AIW cards might be ur choice then i think.

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MCE 2005 requires a Mpeg2 encoder onboard AIW cards don't have it....But maybe they have a decoder...I'll have to check.

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Crashman

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ATI came out with the Rage Theater chip many years ago and all their products have had MPEG2 decoding since, to the best of my knowledge. nVidia's been doing it since something like the GeForce4 series on all their chips, the only one broken that I know of is the 6800 series.

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The Rage theater chip is not MPEG2 decoder chip, it's a video decoder(decode analog video into digital video). Also AIW cannot do hardware MPEG2 Encoding too. ATI has it's own MPEG2 encoder board for Microsoft Windows eHome edition. It's called "eHome Wonder". They just release a new video decoding+mpeg encoder chip called Theater 550 Pro, new boards based on this chip will soon be released, I guess.

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Crashman

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I never claimed ATI encoded video, nobody even asked about that, you simply implied it because it makes you feel like you're getting one over on someone.

So what exactly did my Rage Theater chip on my Radeon DDR TVO do?

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