New MacBooks adding NVIDIA hardware H.264 decoding?

I have an iMac with a Radion 2600 HD. According to this page (http://hothardware.com/Articles/ATI_Radeon_HD_2600_and_2400_Performance/) this card has h.264 decoding also. Is my iMac using it or not? And if not, does this mean Apple has enabled that in their OS?

CUDA is more of an advanced method to allow for faster h264 decoding for encoding, such as the new Quadro CX has. It has been implemented in a few encoding programs already.

All of the 8 series nvidia cards(not sure about 9) do hardware accelerated decoding, but only using certain codecs (certain h264 codecs, such as the Cyberlink h264 that comes with PowerDVD).
I can watch 1080p on my MBP (2.4Ghz, mid 2007) in windows with low CPU usage because of that. It would more likely be a software update needed, not just a hardware.

Hey folks, Nvidia has a technology called CUDA that it's implemented in good large portion of it's video cards and all of the Intel based Mac's using NVIDIA chips can handle the technology which Apple seems to be implementing NOW. Take a look at http://www.nvidia.com/object/cuda_develop.html

slightly more an "engadged" type question, but i downloaded some of the "raw" files from the net from the new Canon 5D (all in H.264, 1080P at between around 40 ish + MB/sec and they were unplayable on the mac i tried (imac 24 inch 2.1 ghz with upped gfx card and 2gbs of ram)) it dropped more than half the frames.

The only solution to edit these files i found was to convert them to apple intimidate codec, and then they played fine (and coudl be edited in both FCP and iMovie 08) but it did more than double the file sizes, took twice the play back time to do and i imagine reduced the quality a bit. One review even said they though a mac pro quad core (that i am about to purchase) would fail to play back properly


does anybody know if the any of the gfx cards from nvidia in mac pro's can support h.264 playback (and if its every something we may see in an update) (and also, as a long shot has anybody tried playing back canon 5D footage on a mac pro, did it go smothley? eg the ones from here http://www.dpreview.com/previews/canoneos5dmarkII/page15.asp )


many thanks


James

Since the MacBook Air is theoretically fairly identical to the MacBook, would those new ones have the capability?

So what about previous MBP and MP with dedicate GPU's? Does OSX already support offloading H264 to the gpus?

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i'd like to add my own little rumor to this.
apple is upgrading, not discontinuing, the mini's to support this as well
apple is going to offer a software package to enable a mini-dvr (media center) out of the box.
apple will start selling 1080p

no backup, no sources, just more of a guy making a wish list...isn't that how one starts a rumor :P