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<blockquote data-quote="DrMopar" data-source="post: 496534" data-attributes="member: 70303">Hi, I'm using CoreAVC because I ran the trial edition and it seemed to work well. I haven't got PowerDVD but I guess I could give it a go. Can you install just the codec or do you have to load the whole software package?Where did you get the info on the 8800GTS not being fully compatible with H.264? My understanding was that it is (it's listed on the CoreAVC as a suitable card too.)Either way, I'm having the same issue with harware encoding on or off. I've been watching the news tonight and had perfect reception with no pixellation on TV One. Switching over to 3 part way through and I had bad break up and repeated pixellation. Back to One and everything was fine. I know they're on different frequencies/transponders and One is 720p whilst 3 is 1080i so lots of variables to explore I guess. But I really need to see how good my signal is before I start looking too much at the PC. I'll try and get hold of the STB and see what that does.Hi, thanks for that. I've had the odd skip like that but changed my deinterlacing settings and it fixed it. I'm in Mt. Wellington, Auckland and unfortunately don't have clear line of site to the mast as we're in a bit of a hollow. With the aerial set-up I've got now I get a pretty good picture on Prime so the signal should be reasonable on DVB-T too.....in theory. Does the signal strength meter on the HVR2200 work correctly? The HVR4000 that I have doesn't have a working meter on board and so I get random readings from 0 to 100%.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DrMopar, post: 496534, member: 70303"] Hi, I'm using CoreAVC because I ran the trial edition and it seemed to work well. I haven't got PowerDVD but I guess I could give it a go. Can you install just the codec or do you have to load the whole software package? Where did you get the info on the 8800GTS not being fully compatible with H.264? My understanding was that it is (it's listed on the CoreAVC as a suitable card too.) Either way, I'm having the same issue with harware encoding on or off. I've been watching the news tonight and had perfect reception with no pixellation on TV One. Switching over to 3 part way through and I had bad break up and repeated pixellation. Back to One and everything was fine. I know they're on different frequencies/transponders and One is 720p whilst 3 is 1080i so lots of variables to explore I guess. But I really need to see how good my signal is before I start looking too much at the PC. I'll try and get hold of the STB and see what that does. Hi, thanks for that. I've had the odd skip like that but changed my deinterlacing settings and it fixed it. I'm in Mt. Wellington, Auckland and unfortunately don't have clear line of site to the mast as we're in a bit of a hollow. With the aerial set-up I've got now I get a pretty good picture on Prime so the signal should be reasonable on DVB-T too.....in theory. Does the signal strength meter on the HVR2200 work correctly? The HVR4000 that I have doesn't have a working meter on board and so I get random readings from 0 to 100%. [/QUOTE]

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