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<blockquote data-quote="RoyH" data-source="post: 153882" data-attributes="member: 28932">OkThat means you must write software for the internal player, figure out how to deal with AACS (which when used officially must be payed for cause its licensed i believe) and you will accociate Mediaportal with one particular piece of hardware to watch HDDVD/BLURAY from within the mediaportal shell, instead of Mediaportal being a software solution solely.I dont think this is good strategy, especially the hardware part, because the&nbsp; hardware part and CPU offloading is already taken care of with having a reasonable CPU and a 8500/8600 Nvidia card or the coming ATI cards. If you like a small box HTPC with for example a MiniITX MB you dont want an extra PCI card in there, do you?So in my opinion the two best possible strategy's for watching HDDVD/Bluray from within Mediaportal are:Internal Player-to figure out how to use AACS in the internal player's navigator and figure out how to use the HW-accelaration from Nvidia/ATI.External Player within internal mediaportal-shell:-use, for example, Powerdvd in a Mediaportal coating like MyMovies 2.3 does for MCE. The dev from MyMovies already stated once on his forum he wouldn't mind MyMovies being ported to other applications like Mediaportal.Just my 2 cents, please discuss.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="RoyH, post: 153882, member: 28932"] Ok That means you must write software for the internal player, figure out how to deal with AACS (which when used officially must be payed for cause its licensed i believe) and you will accociate Mediaportal with one particular piece of hardware to watch HDDVD/BLURAY from within the mediaportal shell, instead of Mediaportal being a software solution solely. I dont think this is good strategy, especially the hardware part, because the hardware part and CPU offloading is already taken care of with having a reasonable CPU and a 8500/8600 Nvidia card or the coming ATI cards. If you like a small box HTPC with for example a MiniITX MB you dont want an extra PCI card in there, do you? So in my opinion the two best possible strategy's for watching HDDVD/Bluray from within Mediaportal are: Internal Player -to figure out how to use AACS in the internal player's navigator and figure out how to use the HW-accelaration from Nvidia/ATI. External Player within internal mediaportal-shell: -use, for example, Powerdvd in a Mediaportal coating like MyMovies 2.3 does for MCE. The dev from MyMovies already stated once on his forum he wouldn't mind MyMovies being ported to other applications like Mediaportal. Just my 2 cents, please discuss. [/QUOTE]

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