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I have 2 HTPC's. Both machines are deticated to HTPC use and serve no other purpose... System 1: 2.0G Celeron, 512MB, 250G HD, Emuzed Maui Capture card. Running MCE 2005 connected (via dvi-2-hdmi) to my 51" Toshiba HDTV. MS wireless KB & Mouse, but not used offten, use MCE remote...

You can't use FFDShow within the MCE front end. However, anything that will play in MP10 (with the correct codec's) then it should play in MCE.

Did you get all the drivers for the PVR-150 installed? I had the same problem with mine until I got both components of the card installed...

oh man... let's see if I can remember. We supported 2 of those when I started my job (about 5 years ago), and weren't overly impressed... The Case is pretty much a standard ATX case, but all the extra connectors (video/audio) were propritary, so you wouldn't be able to re-use those. The...

I completely agree... The cable I am using cost me about $15 shipped. The picture looks crystal clear... Don't spend $100+ on the monster (and that's for the short one)...

yes, HDMI is still a digital signal. I do that now on my Toshiba 51" and it looks great. The only fun part is finding the right resolution to run at. The NVidia cards (I use a fx5200) have a nice feature that allows direct connecton to a HDTV, and adjusts the resolution accordingly.

The adapter you saw on ebay was for ATI cards (I have one for my 9800pro). What you can do, however, if you have a HDTV with hdmi input is get a cable/converter to go from DVI to HDMI. This is currently what I do with my MCE2k5 box connected to my 51"... I'm pretty sure that most if not all...

As I understand it, there is a way to do it by sysprepping the machine. As long as you are going from XP pro, you can use your MCE key and do some special things in the sysprep.inf file to make it work. Let me see if I have a link... ok, I don't have the XP to MCE, but I do have the XP to...

Just thought I'd post a quick thread incase anyone is looking at getting Primetime... I've had primetime for a month or so. It's nice that it seamlessly integrates with MCE and allows you to burn recorded TV to a video DVD. However I've got a few issues... 1. You can't adjust the...

that's what I was afraid of... I already have an MCE box, so I don't know that Sage would be an option... I'd read, somewhere, the trick that you can share your recorded tv folder and have another MCE box watch that folder so that you could watch recorded tv or videos in 2 different places...

I want to do a MCE extender for my bedroom (have a 2k5 box in the LR)... I'm not sure if i should just pick up one of those Linksys/HP extenders or just build another MCE box and tie it to my first... I like the Linksys idea, but never seen one in action. I also don't like the fact that it...

In my expierence, the do have some variablility to them. The only thing you have to do is to get the internal IR let bright enough to start the phototransistor conducting. However, the phototransistor should be variable enough to change the brightness of the leds...

Are the tips and info stuff you can share? I'd be interested too if it's not too overly complicated...

I think you're on the right track... I've done something similar, as I had led fans on a fanbus and didn't want the leds to dim. I disconnected the RPM sensor wire from the fan board and connected it to the power of the leds (this particular fan had all the leds in series, so only one set of...

hmmm.... I don't know... I always re-author and just get the movie. I'll have to try that and see if it does or not...

There is a setting in DVD Shrink that tells it not to split the .VOB files into 1GB chunks. When I rip them I now have one 4.6G .vob file and it plays fine. I'll have to check when I get home on where that seting is, but it's there.

There is a plugin that you can use with MCE that is through MSN. You have to have a hotmail or msn account (email is fine), then you connect to tv.msn.com, view their program guide and select shows to record. I've tried it and it does work. (recorded a show from here at work). Unfortunately...

That part should be fairly easy... there are 4 pins on the relay (may be more, but won't be used). There will be a N.O. (normally open) and common pins for the switched. that is the part that you will run the +12V from the battery through. and 2 coil pins. That is what makes the switch turn...

If I remember correctly, when looking at the data sheet for the LM317, it shows using one pot to control voltage on 2 IC's. It should be possible. Have you tried to build just one circuit with 2 regulators and one pot? Then build the single one on another board? Just to absolutely guarentee...

Because of the amount of current that the inverter would require, I wouldn't connect it directly to an existing circuit. I would run a + line from the battery and use a higher current relay to turn it on and off. Tie the relay coil to an existing circuit (I would just use the radio power)...

I'm sad to say that I just use functional names: Media Center machine is TV-PC main machine is Main-PC daughter's machine is Amelia-PC son's machine is Braden-PC machine in our bedroom is Bedroom-PC arcade machine is Arcade-PC test machine is Test-PC laptop is Laptop-PC fileserver is...

Will that work? I'm pretty sure that HD indicators are negative trigger. The + pin on the MB is just a current limited +5V. The activity is done from the - terminal. What you said would just leave the leds on all the time...

Yes. I use a DVI to HDMI cable from my HTPC to my Toshiba 51". It's worked well for several months now... You do have to connect audio seperately, however...

I would strongly recommend that you not use the MB header directly. Get an opto-isolator and use it to drive the leds, and the header to drive the input of the isolator. And, yes, if you don't put a resistor on each led, they all will not light, as they have to get to a certain voltage before...

Does that XGI card work with MCE? I thought that MCE's front end requires a DX9 compliant card...

The pixelated picture is caused by the MPEG compression that is used for recording. It can very, depending on the card (the card does some of the compression). I noticed a big difference when I went from my cheap Emuzed Maui card to my PVR150MCE. You also may want to make sure that MCE is set...

One thing you have to remember with power supplies, is their voltage is typically rated with a load. With a rating of 7.5V/1A, it indicates that when the load pulls 1A the output voltage is 7.5V. When you add a load to a power supply it's voltage changes depending on the load, because of the...

I don't know if I'd say that HDMI is better... HDMI is just a new spec that carries digital video (same as DVI) and digital audio (as well as being compliant with some copy protections). From what I've read, there is no quality difference between the 2. HDMI is just easier to deal with (only...

I assume the specs in your signature are the machine you are using... The ATI DVI-->Component converter adheres to the Macro*Vision standard, so it will not allow you to play Macro*Vision encoded DVD movies at higher than 480p resolutions. You would either have to connect via DVI to the...

Ok... I use MCE and a 51" 16:9 TV MCE will display on your widescreen TV at a 16:9 resolution. The TV signal received (doesn't matter what type of card) is 4:3, and as MCE displays the TV signal in the form of an overlay on top of your MCE resolution, so it fills with extra space with bars...

Is there a reason you want to run it as non-admin? in any case. It sounds like a hard drive permissions problem. By default XP (that MCE is built on) is very restrictive to non-admin users. The only place a normal user has more than read access is in their profile. You may either need to...

Another thing you may want to check for is heat... maybe it's getting too hot in your case or, if you have it in an enclosed cabinet, getting too hot in the whole cabinet...

don't know if it will make much of a difference, but if you go on the source voltage of 11.3V (and a current of 30 mA) your limiting resistor should be more like 110 ohms... I don't think that's a common value, but mabe you could do a 100 ohm and 10 ohm in series... or 2 220's in parallel...

ok... let's see how much of my EcET classes I remember... To satisfy Kirchhoff's voltage law, the resistor has to drop 11.3V as there is nothing between the emitter and ground, and there is only a .7V drop between the base and the emitter... No matter what resistance you put in place of the...

nevermind... I looked at that again... it doesn't work that way... changing the 2.2k would not effect the voltage or current through the leds...

Going on his circuit, I wonder if you could adjust the 2.2k resistor to something a little smaller (like 2k or 1.8k) to see if you could get a little more voltage at that node, possibly brightening the leds. dunno if that would work or not, but I think it'd be worth a shot.

I wonder if you need to put a resister on the IR led side of the opto. I used a couple of those to allow me to do a 3 color led for power/HD activity, and I limited the input on the isolator. Maybe what's happening is that the production machine is putting out a higher voltage or current that...

The ground is your black wire on the molex connector... The way it would work is to have each resistor tied to the 12V rail then each Led2 tied to ground. You would just tie all the 12V leads together and connect them to the 12V rail and all the grounds to the 0V (black) rail. You can add...

That's not quite correct... You will have a total of 4 seperate circuits, each with a 220 ohm resistor and 2 leds. Each circuit will go like this: 12V --> Resistor --> Led1 --> Led2 --> Ground Your drawing shows the 2 circuits in series, the leds would be dim like that.

yes, that is correct. Just cut the 2 wires (most likely red and black) that go to the fan and those will give you the 12V rail to use for your leds. Now, for the leds. You can't use 1 resistor and connect all the leds in parallel to that resisitor. Even though a led may be rated at (for...