Completed HTPC Build - Antec Fusion 430 (Black) (1 Viewer)

[infy]

I bought the complete package in the picture at the same time. (you can see some of the speakers in the picture)
So I had to do some thinking where most of the money needed to go.

In the end I bought the Canton Movie 150-QX black. I had to find something that did not take up too much space and did not draw too much attention. I had to hide things.
Movie 150 QX - Movie Series - CANTON pure Music (en)

I am very pleased with the result. People have said that they have never heard anything this good.

The TV is on EFW 6245 LCD wall support
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[infy]

<quote> 23-04-2007: Another reason to want to have software decoding support is the fact that currently if I want to use subtitles (DirectVobSub), DXVA get's disabled. I have read in another topic that Media Player Classic has a custom EVR method to use subtitles and DXVA so I think it's a matter of time before this will also be possible with other players (MP internal). </quote>

Is this really the case? I currently cannot use subs + dxva at the same time?

 

[armandp]

Is this really the case? I currently cannot use subs + dxva at the same time?

Yes every post-processing filter (like DirectVobSub) will disable DXVA

 

[canino98]

I'm planning to do the same

Looks good. I'm surprised that monster cooler fints in there!

I've just built a Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-S2H based system with a BE-2450 in a Silverstone LC19 case.

I used a Akasa low profile cooler and it is completely silent as far as I can tell. I haven't had any heat issues although I haven't tried decoding HD footage yet.

What hd did you use? sata? ide? I appreciate your help. What are all your system specs? tunner?

 

[funkstar]

What hd did you use? sata? ide? I appreciate your help. What are all your system specs? tunner?

HD was is a 60GB 2.5" Hitachi I had lying around. for neater cabling, i used a 2.5" to 3.5" pinout adapter, then stuck an ATA to SATA adapter on that.

This is only a client machine, so the tuner is in the server in the living room.

 

[sbp]

Hi thanks for a very informative tread.

I'm planing to buy an Imon VFD to my HTPC. Therefore I have a few questions:
1. Is it easy to navigate through Mediaportals menu's without turning on the TV? I mean, if I want to hear music, I don't want to turn on the TV in order to find the right music?
Do you have a picture showing how the Mediaportal menu is drawn on the VFD-display?

2. I need to have a IR-transmitter (blaster) to change channels on my set-top box (I was planning of using a microsoft MCE remote with IR-receiver and transmitter). Do you think that this will be possible, or will the IMON device give any problems with that?

Thanks

 

[armandp]

Hi thanks for a very informative tread.
1. Is it easy to navigate through Mediaportals menu's without turning on the TV? I mean, if I want to hear music, I don't want to turn on the TV in order to find the right music?
Do you have a picture showing how the Mediaportal menu is drawn on the VFD-display?

I don't know anything about the the VFD because my display is a LCD I also haven't tried navigating without the TV on but the functionality comes from the CybrDisplay plugin and is not really dependant on the kind of hardware.

2. I need to have a IR-transmitter (blaster) to change channels on my set-top box (I was planning of using a microsoft MCE remote with IR-receiver and transmitter). Do you think that this will be possible, or will the IMON device give any problems with that?

I don't think the IMON device will give you trouble blasting - but i don't know for sure. Maybe you could ask on the IMON support pages.

 

[drealit]

Well I dropped the built in IR altogether (was having problems getting it to do what I wanted... a little tinfoil and some electrical tape and now I'm golden lol) and am solely using my MCE IR receiver along with Soundgraph. My only problem with my setup is the Deinterlacing of my ripped DVD's(not encoded... straight rips to Audio/Video_TS folders etc). I tried out the registry script that you linked to but it messed up my display output (widescreen was messed up and interlacing didn't look much better). I am using the CCC Pack rather than straight FFDshow etc. What settings did you use when running the script? I might be missing something in the installation instructions.

 

[armandp]

I just used all the settings of the ATI script.. and it gave me a slight improvement but not the one I was hoping for.. I removed all the settings later today. I still believe it's one of those settings though. Have to take some time to figure them all out. The hardware deinterlacing gives me a slight vibration on logo's/subtitles in SD content (TV only). I'm gonna update my first post with the settings i have for all the different codecs.. I don't have CCC installed because i'd rather set each codec up myself.

 

[drealit]

Yes I'm thinking about removing CCC Pack and just doing it manually. I've had good luck with it but I think in this situation I may need to have full control...