Will ‎NVIDIA Quadro NVS 3100M work Microsoft Media Center Encryption

[Rickt1962]

Anybody use this ?

[stuartm]

AFAICT it supports hardware decode of h.264 and MPEG-2 so it ought to work OK with WMC. it is a fairly weak GPU though so YMMV

[Rickt1962]

AFAICT it supports hardware decode of h.264 and MPEG-2 so it ought to work OK with WMC. it is a fairly weak GPU though so YMMV

I was trying to get the most powerful Laptop that runs windows 7 with a Intel i7 cpu Dell Latitude E6510 that seems thats the best GPU they used to offer.
Unless you know of any better Laptops ?

[stuartm]

Sounds like a decent choice, I am not too familiar with laptop models/GPUs but most laptops have GPUs that are not super strong. Luckily, as long as it has the HW decode for the video codecs you are probably fine for WMC (it is not a high GPU demand app other than doing video decode).

[SoNic67]

If it doesn't have a physical HDMI port, it won't play DRM content (some cable TV stations set that flag). DP to HDMI convertors won't work. WMC doesn't recognize DP as compliant for HDCP. Since is not supported by MS anymore, it won't be fixed.

I have a Quadro P620 and it didn't work. I had to get a GT 1030 with true HDMI connectors on back.

[stuartm]

Good point. IIRC some laptops the display screen is not an "HDMI" port so without an actual HDMI port it won't be able to show protected content.

[SoNic67]

Yeah, it' stupid, but that's what it is... only native HDMI connections are supported for DRM.