<span class="gmail_quote"></span>> I've never really been happy with the quality of software decoders or cards<br><div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
> with MPEG offload (not full decode) so I hope this card lives up to my<br>> expectations :-)<br><br>why do you think, that h.264 software decoders has poor quality, than hardware decoders?</blockquote><div><br>My biggest problems in the past have been A/V sync problems, "tearing" and slow channel change times. I've had similar problem with software based MPEG-2 decoders but after a lot of tweaking I was able to get nice image quality but still had occasional A/V sync problem and channel change times were still slow. I've never (or very rarely) had these problems with hardware based MPEG-2 decoders.
<br></div><br>Jeremy<br><div> <br></div><br></div>