NVIDIA PureVideo Decoder is a discontinued MPEG-2 decoder plug-in from 2006 that added DVD and TV playback to Windows Media Player and Media Center on Windows XP, kept here as an archive - the job it did is now handled free by LAV Filters and by the decoder built into every modern graphics driver.

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