All Geforce 6, 7 series to support H.264

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SOURCES CLOSE to Nvidia are claiming that Nvidia has a secret video driver that can make a real difference and give ATI's Avivo a run for its money. ATI is claiming dominancy with its 5.13 drivers that can do H.264 just fine on the new line of products. Nvidia is keeping its cards close to its corporate chest.

Nvidia is getting ready to release the miraculous driver that is supposed to beat ATI in Video performances. The driver will ensure that IGP 6150 integrated graphic core and 6200 low end core can play H.264 content at 720P resolution. Faster cards should be able to play 1080 P resolutions without problems.

The new driver will allow all Geforce 6 and 7 series to play H.264 content. Yes, this means each and every card from Geforce 6200 to 7800 GTX will play H.264. I still wonder about NV40 based cards as they had some troubles with WMV files before.

ATI R5XX generation can play H.264 but not the older R420/430/480 generations. None of these cards are actually supported for H.264 playback and we don’t think ATI will provide any kind of H.264 support for those older cards. Kind of bad for you if you have one.

If this comes true, then ATI might have a problem when it comes to H.264 just weeks after it claimed Video dominancy. The drivers have appeared over the horizon and are steaming towards you demonstrating the curvature of the planet.
 
HOLY SHIT MAN :D AHH I LOVE NVIDIA .. i still wonder there are a lot more in geforce 6800/7 series cards that nvidia can offer us just an imagination :P
 
@qf, H.264, or MPEG-4 Part 10, is a digital video codec standard, which is noted for achieving very high data compression. It was written by the ITU-T Video Coding Experts Group (VCEG) together with the ISO/IEC Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) as the product of a collective partnership effort known as the Joint Video Team (JVT). The ITU-T H.264 standard and the ISO/IEC MPEG-4 Part 10 standard (formally, ISO/IEC 14496-10) are technically identical, and the technology is also known as AVC, for Advanced Video Coding. The final drafting work on the first version of the standard was completed in May of 2003.
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