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Since you getting a nice HTPC, i wouldn't go too low on the CPU, some of the 1080p mkv rips arn't dxva compatible, so it's good to have a bit of CPU grunt for the rare cases when DXVA won't work.
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Agreed 
Not sure whether this is the right place to discuss this, always found converting existing video to h.264 has never lost quality in my eyes, handbrake or xvid4psp both do this very well, and the bonus is you get dxva with the resulting file.
Not sure whether this is the right place to discuss this, always found converting existing video to h.264 has never lost quality in my eyes, handbrake or xvid4psp both do this very well, and the bonus is you get dxva with the resulting file.
Agree with above, however who can really be bothered re-encoding all their movies =D
Hi
A search in this thread indicates a few of us NZers are having audio sync problems with TV3 (LATM) but I haven't seen any fixes or reasons as to why. Changing to AC3 fixes it for me, but Im still wondering why this occurs with TV3 only? Something to do with 1080i?
Any ideas?
Cheers
A search in this thread indicates a few of us NZers are having audio sync problems with TV3 (LATM) but I haven't seen any fixes or reasons as to why. Changing to AC3 fixes it for me, but Im still wondering why this occurs with TV3 only? Something to do with 1080i?
Any ideas?
Cheers
It's surely got to be an issue at the encoding stage. I use to watch TV3 with AC3 switched off in MediaPortal for over a year, and never had audio syncing problems until about 6 or 9 months ago. Nothing has changed in my config to cause such a problem. I've now switched to "Prefer AAC" which has solved it. I think most if not all set top boxes have AC3 5.1 and use it when available, so no know one at the station or Kordia probably know about the problem.
Have to concur.
Saw the same delay in video rendering versus audio on TV3 with AAC audio and moving to "prefer AC3" resolved it (I'm usng AC3filter)
I assumed that 1080i just took that bit longer to get initiated and that AC3 took that bit longer too (versus AAC), however thinking about it, you are right that, it had been working fine about 6 months ago so suggests a change to the encoding at MediaWorks.
Saw the same delay in video rendering versus audio on TV3 with AAC audio and moving to "prefer AC3" resolved it (I'm usng AC3filter)
I assumed that 1080i just took that bit longer to get initiated and that AC3 took that bit longer too (versus AAC), however thinking about it, you are right that, it had been working fine about 6 months ago so suggests a change to the encoding at MediaWorks.
FWIW I've been having audio sync issues across TV2 and TV3 recently since installing For The Record. It would start off ok, but gradually over time the audio would lose sync with the video. I use the AC3 audio stream (for TV3 at least).
Long story short, I chose the "disabled DXVA" link on the Start Men that SAF installs, and it's sorted it. I'm only running an ATI on board graphics card which may not have the various accelleration features, but with DXVA disabled everything works great.
Long story short, I chose the "disabled DXVA" link on the Start Men that SAF installs, and it's sorted it. I'm only running an ATI on board graphics card which may not have the various accelleration features, but with DXVA disabled everything works great.
i've read that the texture rendering method is going to be changed in the next RC release, to a method that is similar to MP1.0 Final, this is because they are undoing the ugly texture hack they did to try and help the EVR+ATI gui flicker issue. This means that once again it will be easier to render 1080i HDTV in mediaportal, which should hopefully lower the gfx requirements for dxva of TV3.
