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XBMC gets native DXVA2 support (Hardware Acceleration)

XBMC has been progressing at an incredible otherworldly pace and tonight's latest Changeset is no exception. From Revision 27376 Onwards, XBMC now supports dxva2 decoder support for vc1/h264 courtesy of the Boxee DXVA implementation.  Thats right, my aging Athlon 4400XP now barely hits 20% CPU usage with most 1080p material. This is for the Windows [...]

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10% OFF Cyberlink Coupons.

PowerDVD 9 10% OFF coupon [JANOFFER] expires on Jan 31 Coupon can be used in the US, UK AUSTRALIA, CANADA and all over Europe locales for PowerDVD, PowerDirector, PowerProducer, Media Suite 8, YouCam, Media Show Espresso 5.5, True Theater Enhancer which expire on 31st Jan 2010.

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Power DVD now with HD Audio.

I have been using Power DVD  for a while on my HTPC mostly due to the ability to hardware decode High Definition content like h264 using only your Graphics card – utilising next to no CPU cycles.  This method works with Xp & Vista Media Centre and Open Source HTPC frontends such as Mediaportal. For [...]

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Windows Vista and 2008 Service Pack 2 Beta

If you are feeling game, SP2 has been released as one pack for both Vista and 2008 Server in various flavours. Features Emerging Hardware Support Bluetooth 2.1 feature pack Ability to record data on Blu-ray media exFAT file system now supports UTC timestamps, which enables correct file synchronization across time zones Support for the new [...]

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