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Hi guys I dont know if I should pot this here or htpc forum. But anyways I have recently bought a macmini and I have 4 hard drives various sizes (500x2,1tb,2tb) I do not want to use a raid. My question is, is it possible to find a nas or a external hdd case that holds 4 hdd so I don't have to...

Hi I have a popcorn hour that I use in my bedroom and I have a HTPC in my main living room. I am currently atching the movies on my PH with an external HDD. I was wondering how I can access my movies off the htpc on my ph through a wired network. I want to try and conserve energy so I would...

Hey guys, well I have a HTPC in my living room that I use, and I have a popcorn hour That I want to hook up to my network by network cable. My internet is hooked up in the back room, I have a ethernet cable running 60meters to my living room htpc. Now only way I can hook up my popcorn hour is...

Hey guys I am trying to fix the black levels on my video card, i am using a ati 3400 that is built in to a gigabyte mobo, and I am using hdmi. The programs I am using are mediaportal, catalyst control center, coreavc, ac3audio and couple other things. So how can I fix the black levels, I...

Hey guys I`m looking at upgrading my HTPC to be used for 3-d movies. I am not interested in using it for gaming. I have the amd 4600+ cpu and my mobo is the GA-MA78GM-S2H which im using the internal videocard. I am also running Windows 7. So I was wondering what video card would be the best...

hey people. i am having a hard time getting my popcornhour a110 connecting to wireless network. i have the wn110 wireless usb stick, i will choose my ssid and enter my password. it says its connected but there is no ip address. i am running windows 7 that is hard wired to a 2wire router. i...

hey does any one have first hand experience with the new western digital hd tv. i play mainly 1080p mkv movies, and some season series iso. can i hook up multiple hard drives to this with a usb splitter. or is it one hard drive at a time. if so i think i will hang on to my htpc. reason why...

ok i have installed mythbuntu, this is the first time using linux and i have searched every where for this, i have 3 hard drives in my computer 1 has linux and the other 2 have a bunch of movies that is on a ntfs hard drive. now how can i get linux to recognize the 2 drives, so i need linux to...

hi i am wondering if there is any linux os, that is strictly htpc based, i dont need anything else except to transfer my movies from external hard drive, and play movies, i dont need any thing else. i dont play games on my htpc, all of my computer components can play 1080p mkvs fine with...

hey guys i have some 1080p/720p mkv movie files there are 3 of them that will stop playing at random, and all my other movies will play flawlessly. is there anything i can do to the file. i am using mediaporttal, coreavc, ac3 filter

ok i got a problem the sound through my hdmi has stopped working, it was good last night, i have the gigabyte ga-ma78gm-s2h any tips will be good. fyi its not my amp its the computer. and i got ac3filter, coreavc codec, mediaportal and vlc. i thnk thats all i got for codecs./video players

ok guys what do you prefer to use for the interface for a htpc, vista media center, mediaportal, or stand alone players like mediaplayer classic, vlc ect.

hey people. my main htpc is in my living room. i was wondering if its possible to use a media extender for my bedroom and access my tv shows. i will mostly be viewing hd movies thanks dave i will be using wireless internet

hey is there a program that i can use that tells me how much power im using on my htpc. thanks

hey guys im deciding whether to go with 32 or 64bit. this is my set up for my htpc GA-MA69GM-S2H amd 4400+ 2gigs ram software mediaportal ac3filter coreavc pro i am mainly watching 1080p mkv movies which play flawlessly. what would i benefit from the 64bit that 32bit doesnt have thanks

ok guys im running vista sp1 on my htpc, i have 500 gb of files i want to transfer to my 1 tb drive, (i need the 500 drive for another computer). any ways after 10 minutes or so through the transfer it freezes at 1 hour and some odd minutes. it will stay like that for a while. please help me...

hey peps i was wondering whats your thoughts on free anti virus programs. if there are any good ones please list em thanks

hey guys im lookin for a program that does calibration for tv screens i am mainly watching 1080p mkv and lot of times the darks are really dark and the brights are really bright and im just lookin for someting that will help me get the color right thanks

hey guys i was wondering how t setup vista media center to play my 1080p mkv movies and how can i customize all of my menus there is probably over 2/3 of the menus i wont use, and i have 3 hard drives full of movies so can some one please give me a link or a guide, im lookin for the simplest...

hi guys i was wondering if you can help me set up my harmony 670 so i can use it on my vista media center, i have the wireless logitech ex110 keyboard mouse combo. thanks dave

hi i was woundering whats the easiest way of adding more hard drives to this Antec NSK2480 case. i already have 2 installed i want to add some more probablt another 2 tarbytes. will i have to make a media server or what thanks. also is there any way of making a wireless media server on the cheap...

hi i am trying to play some mkvs but i am getting sound but no voices, the voices were playing fine, i dont remember what i changed i am playing sound through optical out and video through hdmi specs Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-S2H 4600+ codec ac3filter coreavc pro matroska splitter media...

ok i am havning problems with 1080p mkv playback. i have gotten it so it plays back smooth but there is just a little bit of broken image. i am running coreavc with haali media spliter and ac3filter. so my cpu is running at about 50-60% used and my ram is about 700mb used so how would i be...

hey im building a htpc and my motherboard isnt booting up, all the fans are working. hdd is working. but the cdrom isnt and i dont get a screen up.

hi i was just wondering whats better quality. the rips from a bluray disk or the real dvd. i would like to put movies on my hdd but the bluray cds are too big

hey well ive ordered my parts for the htpc i will use vista ultimate. i have 2 gigs of ram. and athlon 2.4ghz 2 core. i dont need pvr. and i will be playing movies through both the dvd drive and off the hdd. i dont have a remote so i will be using keyboard and mouse.

ok ive decided that im going to go with the pc instead of the minimac for my htpc so i am buying from tigerdirect.ca so i dont need a dvr. and i want to be able to play bluray movies when the drives become cheaper with out upgrading any thing, and i want to watch 1080p rips i will need...

hey hows it going. well im planning on buy a mac mini in the next week or so. i have a sharp 42 inch with 1080p and a 5.1 sound. 1. does this have a optical out 2.can it upconvert dvds to 1080p 3.if i upgrade the ram will this be able play bluray disc when support is available. 4.what...

hi i am planning on going to japan to travel for 2-3 months and i would love to have a 9 inch or smaller laptop to take with me, all i need it for is to store photos and email, hdd 40 gb or more would be nice please send links, i have akso checked the forums and websites couldnt really find any...