NVIDIA VCQFX550PCIEPB User Guide - Page 189

Video, NVIDIA Display, Windows Media Video 9 WMV9 video acceleration

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Appendix C NVIDIA ForceWare Graphics Display Driver - Feature History Video New video processing features include: • Windows Media Video 9 (WMV9) video acceleration - support for hardware accelerating decoding WMV9 video files on GeForce 6 series GPUs. To enable this feature, a software update from Microsoft is required. Video processing improvements include: • Video scaling implementations to support the newest GeForce 6 series GPUs. • Motion adaptive de-interlacing • Color management improvements include: • Color space conversion and processing amplifiers • Extended color range • Color temperature correction NVIDIA Display • Improved NVIDIA display slideout menu layout and functionality. The menu automatically resizes to fit content when you first launch the NVIDIA display control panel. You can also resize the slideout menu by dragging the window border. • Improved EDID [Extended Display Identification Data] display names in the control panel, desktop menus, and APIs are more descriptive than the previous "Digital" and "Analog" display designators. • Rename displays - You can now rename your displays from the nView Display Settings page. • Play-On-My-Display - Right-click on the pop-up menu item to play video files on any connected display. • Tools page - provides options for shortcuts, display optimizations, and troubleshooting. The Tools page replaces the Release 65 Troubleshooting page. • Improved Driver Information and Change Resolutions pages. • Application profiles can include "color settings" - You can now associate application-specific color settings (Digital Vibrance, Brightness, Contrast, Gamma, etc.) with video games. • Improved HDTV-over-DVI user interface and support for arbitrary overscan/ underscan for HDTV-over-DVI. • Variable "Underscan" and "Overscan shift"- The HDTV Overscan Configuration page now lets you adjust the HDTV underscan and overscan shift. • Show HDTV display formats option on the Change Resolutions page lets you add and remove standard EIA 861b HD modes and enables HD over DVI. NVIDIA Corporation 189

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Appendix C
NVIDIA ForceWare Graphics Display Driver — Feature History
Video
New video processing features
include:
Windows Media Video 9 (WMV9) video acceleration —
support for hardware
accelerating decoding WMV9 video files on GeForce 6 series GPUs. To enable this
feature, a software update from Microsoft is required.
Video processing improvements
include:
Video scaling implementations
to support the newest GeForce 6 series GPUs.
Motion adaptive de-interlacing
Color management improvements
include:
Color space conversion and processing amplifiers
Extended color range
Color temperature correction
NVIDIA Display
Improved
NVIDIA display slideout
menu
layout and functionality. The menu
automatically resizes to fit content when you first launch the NVIDIA display
control panel. You can also resize the slideout menu by dragging the window
border.
Improved EDID
[Extended Display Identification Data]
display names
in the
control panel, desktop menus, and APIs are more descriptive than the previous
“Digital” and “Analog” display designators.
Rename displays
— You can now rename your displays from the nView Display
Settings page.
Play-On-My-Display
— Right-click on the pop-up menu item to play video files
on any connected display.
Tools
page — provides options for shortcuts, display optimizations, and
troubleshooting. The Tools page replaces the Release 65 Troubleshooting page.
Improved
Driver Information
and
Change Resolutions
pages.
Application profiles can include “color settings”
— You can now associate
application-specific color settings (Digital Vibrance, Brightness, Contrast, Gamma,
etc.) with video games.
Improved HDTV-over-DVI
user interface and support for arbitrary overscan/
underscan for HDTV-over-DVI.
Variable “Underscan” and “Overscan shift”—
The HDTV Overscan
Configuration page now lets you adjust the HDTV underscan and overscan shift.
Show HDTV display formats
option on the Change Resolutions page lets you
add and remove standard EIA 861b HD modes and enables HD over DVI.