What do I need for Media Portal (1 Viewer)

[dtech]

Hello,
I want to build a media center and want to use the following hardware:

Nvidia 8600 GT
FireDTV DBV-C
Creative X-Fi PCI-e
DVD-player
(Dutch Casema DBV-C provider in Utrecht)

I have a few questions:
- What codec do I need (to buy) for mediaportal to be able to use Purevideo with and without HDTV?
- Idem for Dolby Digital and/or DTS (via optical SPDIF)
- Can I use Vista 64-bit?
- Can Mediaportal rip DVD's with or without help from tools like AnyDVD?
- Can Media Portal be controlled with Microsoft's MCE remote?

I thought Cyberlink PowerDVD Ultra was the answer for the first two, is that right and/or is there a cheaper solution?

Thank in advance

 

[Darre]

Welcome to the forums!

- CoreAVC is a great codec for decoding x264 content(most HD stuff comes like that). Cyberlink codecs are good afaik, but someone else should be able to give you a better answer to this then me..
- ?
- You can use it I think but I dont think its supported?
- I have seen topics regarding this but I dont know what the status of this is. Search the forum.
- Yes


Darre

 

[dtech]

-Does CoreAVC use PureVideo? Bit of a shame to not-use the equipment And afaik there are more codec's on ie Blu-ray possible than just x264 (VC1 ie)
- What do I need for Dolby Digital 5.1 and DTS (trough optical SPDIF)?
- Is that an answer?
- searching...
- Nice

 

[Douwedijkstr]

Concerning your question about sound (DD 5.1/DTS); I'm guessing your question exactly is that you want to play a multi-channel DVD, XVID etc. using the Media-portal software (as you can also choose for 3rd party software inside Mediaportal)? If so, then you can use any codec which you normally use for multi-channel sound (such as ac3filter). In fact, any video/audio codec can simply be chosen in a drop-down menu in Mediaportal config, so you could use whatever you have installed on the pc...

 

[dtech]

So if I install AC3filter I'll be able to get 5.1 out of my DVD's with mediaportal?

 

[Andrew H]

See my system spec... it runs fine and I have various decoders for video (PureVideo, PDVD7, & PDVD7 .264) and AC3Filter for passing digital streams via SPDIF to my A/V receiver. MP is a nice package that simply INTEGRATES DVD playback (utilizes Daemon Tools), TV viewing/timeshift/recording/playback, EPG (USA and SchedulesDirect), and video -- .avi, .mkv WHAT are you using to play DVDs today, and how do you handle the audio?

It does not 'require' anything you don't already use -- assuming you're doing these things already with various other software. As far as ripping DVDs... no. MP doesn't rip but via DaemonTools will autoload to play .iso files.

MediaPortal is a free application and is well worth downloading, playing around and try it yourself!

 

[azimek]

CoreAVC not showing up

I installed CoreAVC pr but i cannot fing any sign of it in MP Configuration.
How do I use CoreAVC in MP??

Thanx

 

[Spragleknas]

CoreAVC is a HD-decoder. You can set it in videos and TV:

In setup (MediaPortal config):
Movies
- Movie player
-- Choose CoreAVC under H.264-codec

TV:
Television (main):
-- Choose CoreAVC under H.264-codec

 

[azimek]

Thanx - CoreAVC was already selected! Still i cannot play a 1080i (ts) movie. CPU is always at 99%.