For all of us that are interested in watching DVD or TV on a computer, NVIDIA released a new software called NVIDIA DVD Decoder. It works on computers that run Windows XP, Windows XP Media Center Edition and also Notebooks with Microsoft's Portable Media Center.
The decoder features Dolby Digital surround sound audio and hardware accelerated video on all Microsoft DirectX compatible hardware processors.
According to NVIDIA, the DVD Decoder the first software decoder that received Microsoft's 'Designed for Media Center Edition" certification.
|  The NVIDIA DVD decoder is the first software decoder to receive the 'Designed for Media Center Edition" certification, ensuring that it will deliver premium video quality and unmatched performance for Media Center PCs. In addition, the NVIDIA DVD Decoder is designed to work with Portable Media Centers allowing users to take their recorded TV shows with them on the road.
Features - Enables DVD viewing with Microsoft® Windows Media® Player or Microsoft Windows® Media Center Edition*
- High quality MPEG-2 decoder supports any third party software application based upon Microsoft DirectShow®
- Dolby® Digital** surround sound decoding
- Minimizes CPU utilization by offloading the MPEG-2 decoding onto the graphics processor
- Enables advanced de-interlacing
- Decodes high-definition MPEG-2 streams for ATSC tuners
- Supports Windows Mobile-based Portable Media Centers allowing end users to transcode MPEG-2 content into Windows Media Video 9
- S/PDIF pass through for external decoding of Dolby Digital and DTS (compatible hardware required)
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When you read the full article over at the NVIDIA homepage you will also see that the decoder supports the DVD playback only with Microsoft Media Center, Media Player 9 and NVIDIA's ForceWare multimedia applications.
It seems that NVIDIA developed this software only for Microsoft and who of you will pay US $19.95 for software that allows only Microsoft products for playback?
Source: NVIDIA
