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<blockquote data-quote="pgroe" data-source="post: 680850" data-attributes="member: 104360"><p>Hello!</p><p></p><p>I have been using my HTPC for nearly half a year now and I wanted to give a short report (including answering jonm's question):</p><p></p><p>The biggest problems are now solved and the system is running nearly well now.</p><p></p><p>For everyone having the same de-interlacing problems as described in some posts above:</p><p>The problem was rooted in the Intel graphic drivers. There is an option for automatic movie detection (in order to set the fitting de-interlace settings). But this didn't work properly. By disabling the option it worked fine and I never had problems with scenes not beeing de-interlaced.</p><p></p><p>The codec config wich worked best for me was just SAF 5 unlocked. (PDVD 10)</p><p>The picture quality as such is very good! But it seems that there are still some issues with the field order showing up in some "tremblement" of slow moves in the picture. Maybe that could be solved, too, but this is not a big problem for me because my Philips 37PFL9603D smoothes every moving so that it is nearly only visible when disabling this option.</p><p></p><p>The power of the GPU seems to suffice for 1080i50 as there are only very few dropped frames (about 0.2 to 1 percent).</p><p></p><p>Some remaining issues still are in recording(=watching) HDTV while recording some other program. The result in this case is quite bad. About 50% packet drop. Such a recording is no use.</p><p>I am still not sure where the problem is, but I hope it will be solved in MP 1.2.0 when my TV Card (DigitalDevices) is officially supported. (It was not before.)</p><p></p><p>PAL is working perfectly - in both aspects: Recording and Playing!</p><p></p><p>The TV-Server is running in Windows known stability. Maybe around one crash per week - I then restart the computer and it is working fine afterwards.</p><p></p><p></p><p>About the functionality of MP I can just can speak highly about it. I really enjoy working with MP because of the rich variety of features which simple stand-alone device never can offer.</p><p></p><p>Such features as TV-Series are very comfortable! It is very nice having the series well organized and pretty presented. (But I am sure the MP website is more adequate for describe its features).</p><p></p><p></p><p>Concluding I will list the software I have installed:</p><p></p><p>Win 7 x64 (maybe some source of issues because 64-bit software is not as professionalized as 32-bit software is)</p><p></p><p>All current drivers (drivers for chipset and graphics not from MSI but directly from Intel)</p><p></p><p>SAF 5 unlocked</p><p>MP 1.1.0 final</p><p>ComSkip</p><p>TSDoctor (for cutting out the commercials, reading data from the comskip txts)</p><p></p><p></p><p>I hope these infos are useful for you!</p><p></p><p>Greetings, pgroe</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pgroe, post: 680850, member: 104360"] Hello! I have been using my HTPC for nearly half a year now and I wanted to give a short report (including answering jonm's question): The biggest problems are now solved and the system is running nearly well now. For everyone having the same de-interlacing problems as described in some posts above: The problem was rooted in the Intel graphic drivers. There is an option for automatic movie detection (in order to set the fitting de-interlace settings). But this didn't work properly. By disabling the option it worked fine and I never had problems with scenes not beeing de-interlaced. The codec config wich worked best for me was just SAF 5 unlocked. (PDVD 10) The picture quality as such is very good! But it seems that there are still some issues with the field order showing up in some "tremblement" of slow moves in the picture. Maybe that could be solved, too, but this is not a big problem for me because my Philips 37PFL9603D smoothes every moving so that it is nearly only visible when disabling this option. The power of the GPU seems to suffice for 1080i50 as there are only very few dropped frames (about 0.2 to 1 percent). Some remaining issues still are in recording(=watching) HDTV while recording some other program. The result in this case is quite bad. About 50% packet drop. Such a recording is no use. I am still not sure where the problem is, but I hope it will be solved in MP 1.2.0 when my TV Card (DigitalDevices) is officially supported. (It was not before.) PAL is working perfectly - in both aspects: Recording and Playing! The TV-Server is running in Windows known stability. Maybe around one crash per week - I then restart the computer and it is working fine afterwards. About the functionality of MP I can just can speak highly about it. I really enjoy working with MP because of the rich variety of features which simple stand-alone device never can offer. Such features as TV-Series are very comfortable! It is very nice having the series well organized and pretty presented. (But I am sure the MP website is more adequate for describe its features). Concluding I will list the software I have installed: Win 7 x64 (maybe some source of issues because 64-bit software is not as professionalized as 32-bit software is) All current drivers (drivers for chipset and graphics not from MSI but directly from Intel) SAF 5 unlocked MP 1.1.0 final ComSkip TSDoctor (for cutting out the commercials, reading data from the comskip txts) I hope these infos are useful for you! Greetings, pgroe [/QUOTE]
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