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FiringSquad: I brought up Trimension because software like WinDVD 7 supports both PureVideo and Trimension software technologies. How does someone decide between the PureVideo Decoder and WinDVD 7?

Scott Vouri: We brought the PureVideo Decoder to market so that we could fully expose new PureVideo technologies as fast as we bring them to market. That being said, we are not in the business of competing with software companies and in fact work with the decoder vendors to add PureVideo support to their applications. Did you know that there is a user-configurable option to enable PureVideo hardware support in WinDVD 7? We look forward to bringing even more video processing technologies to market with our software partners.

[Alan's comments: Err… of course I knew that WinDVD 7 has PureVideo support – that was part of the question stem.]



FiringSquad: Should people running non-NVIDIA graphics cards consider using the PureVideo decoder?

Scott Vouri: The NVIDIA PureVideo Decoder is very popular among home theater enthusiasts, regardless of their graphics card, because of its great support of MPEG-2 HD transport streams and solid audio and video decoding. However, it does require an NVIDIA GeForce 6 or 7 Series GPU to take advantage of advanced PureVideo features like our spatial-temporal de-interlacing and inverse telecine.

FiringSquad: NVIDIA is known for having excellent Linux graphics drivers. What are the chances of seeing PureVideo and nStant media for Linux?

Scott Vouri: There are many Consumer Electronics applications for PureVideo and Linux. I can foresee the day when we offer those technologies in that market.

[Alan's comments: Woo hoo!]

FiringSquad: Some HTPC owners use multiple sound cards. Are there any plans to allow a future version of the PureVideo Decoder to output a SPDIF stream to one sound card and a decoded stream to another for analog output?

Scott Vouri: We don’t have any plans to do that at this time.

[Alan's comments: This is probably a weekend job for the PureVideo intern. It would be a really cool feature…]