Phrik
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The thing I find humerous about power/win dvd...is the fact that it costs more the processor did in my HTPC =P
Well compared to today's cost, it will be the CPU and mobo on this setup for me
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The thing I find humerous about power/win dvd...is the fact that it costs more the processor did in my HTPC =P
Is the X-Fi XtremeMusic good for TrueHD and DolbyHD at 5.1 ?
It's hard to imagine that someone could have missed out on the 8600 series launch.why a 8600 card? Didn't think it even had HD do dx9 cards not support HD?
It's hard to imagine that someone could have missed out on the 8600 series launch.
Either way, go the post nine: http://www.hardforum.com/showpost.php?p=1031419768&postcount=9
The 8600 doesn't do the encryption decoding, whereas the HD2600 supposedly does. I never got a chance to get the 2600 working right because AMD/ATI doesn't know how to make Vista drivers properly in order for it to work long enough so you can test it. Some people here and there get lucky with it working, but there is a huge thread on HDbits about it not working right too.I'm well aware of the card I had a gigantic thread on the crappiness of this generation but I've been enjoying my x1950xt but in the meantime I forget what was it the 8600 was lacking some sort of playback or something vs. the 2600
The 8600 doesn't do the encryption decoding, whereas the HD2600 supposedly does. I never got a chance to get the 2600 working right because AMD/ATI doesn't know how to make Vista drivers properly in order for it to work long enough so you can test it. Some people here and there get lucky with it working, but there is a huge thread on HDbits about it not working right too.
Because ATI's driver support is beyond horrible.
the last 2 weeks i upgraded my HTPC to HD just by adding the Xbox360HD-DVD + an HD2400 + PowerDVDUltra.. This is coupled to a Westinghouse LWM42-w2 through DVI port (using the Ati DVI->HDMI Adapter and then a regular HDMI->DVI adapter for the TV)..
works great so far..
the rest of the System is
AMD X2 3800+
1Gb DDR Ram (400mhz)
Vista Ultimate (32bit)
750Gb of HD Space
Xmystique
at first i was going to use My Movies to autoplay the HD-DVD but i find its just as good to create a programs shortcut in Media Center and then just goto Programs/PowerDVD and start it up (Media center minimizes and the same remote works for PowerDVD)..
when you want to switch back to media center just hit the green button..
i wish HD-DVD was in vista.. kindof sucks that all this DRM requirements are built into vista but the MCE doesn't support the basic HD-DVD/Bluray playback..
its not bad though.. hopefully in the future it will be added..
you can see here http://thegreenbutton.com/blogs/mike/archive/2007/01/14/158640.aspx
he tells you how to auto-start PowerDVD + the shortcut method (i just go with the shortcut myself)
Use the same XP codec packs. They work excellent under Vista.Anyhow how is DivX/Xvid or MPEG4 or Matroska or OGG or H.264 playback support with Vista ? Just the usual XP codecs to be used ? I looked at the sites, and it says nothing about a Vista installation package so I'm assuming they flow the same.
Use the same XP codec packs. They work excellent under Vista.
i wish HD-DVD was in vista.. kindof sucks that all this DRM requirements are built into vista but the MCE doesn't support the basic HD-DVD/Bluray playback..
OMG!! the DRM in vista is there so you CAN play protected media NOTHING MORE, it doesnt magically stop your computer from playing all your ripped and downloaded content what so ever, %99 of people who complain about Vista DRM have never even run into it, a few people had legit complaints, but for the most part it is just somethign people dont understand and toss out to bash MS.
what is stopping you from playing HD dvd's in vista....
the point isn't that the DRM stuff is bad.. its that VistaMCE includes all the required DRM but not the basic playback.. (take a breathe, all of us aren't against the DRM in vista)..
IMO this is BS. For one thing MS is one of the guys who helped create the HD DVD "standard" so I would assume that they have some fucking clue as to how to integrate it into VMCE. Second MS has had been saying that Vista would support HD DVD natively. I wonder what happened with that but, shit, they even made the 360 HD DVD drive plug an play with Vista and yet, somehow, VMCE doesn't have the ability to playback a video format that MS helped create?Upon Vista's development and release HDDVD/Blu-ray hadn't come along far enough to be able to integrate it into the media center. Hell, PowerDVD is the best solution out there right now to play the next gen formats and it is still having problems. They are releasing patches every month or so just to try to fix it. In the future once we see HDDVD and/or Blu-ray reach a more mature level, you'll see it integrated in with Vista Media Center.
IMO this is BS. For one thing MS is one of the guys who helped create the HD DVD "standard" so I would assume that they have some fucking clue as to how to integrate it into VMCE. Second MS has had been saying that Vista would support HD DVD natively. I wonder what happened with that but, shit, they even made the 360 HD DVD drive plug an play with Vista and yet, somehow, VMCE doesn't have the ability to playback a video format that MS helped create?
I can understand MS not writing in support for Blue Ray but no HD DVD either?! Come.The.Fuck.On.
Then again VMCE was simply a visual update and tweak of MCE2k5. I just wish some of the new things that they added in were optional (I don't want Sports Lounge. I don't need it. I want my fucking valuable screen real estate back MS). Then again there's a lot of stupidity to be had when it comes to MS, Vista, MCE and even Extenders.
I think the point I'm getting at is that everything surrounding HD DVD and Blue Ray is seriously flawed. On the PC side I think it's fair to say that we're use to crap like this happening (manufactures intentionally crippling their stuff for the PC market; eg NV making Purevideo a hardware feature and yet requiring you to buy certain software in order to use it) but we're also adapt at getting around these limitations (most of the time at least) but when other then the better video quality (but only if you have a TV big enough to see it) everything connected to both Blue Ray and HD DVD seem to be filled with problems/issues. Hell, not even their respective standalone players are unaffected (eg, having to buy another BR player when their next major update comes along cause it's going to be unsupportable on the "older" hardware).They didn't include it for a reason. They can't even iron the bugs out of Vista so it operates normally as an OS, let alone playback HDDVD's flawlessly.
What type TV are you using again? Model/make?
The TV says the resolution that it is providing is 1920x1080 and on the PC itself says it's set to 1920x1080. They seem to understand each other well. But the output is kinda out of the screen limit. it's like a 50pixels out of the screen on all four sides. I can't see the taskbar, I can't see the side most icons. But they are there...
Any suggestions ?
The HDTV will have a digital input (DVI or HDMI) that says HDCP compliant on it. Most likely these will be the 1080p HDTV's, but you'll rarely find 720p/1080i HDTV's with HDCP. Some of the newer ones are showing up with HDCP compliant inputs, though I have tested none of them.
Also, not exactly true. A lot of the early HDMI equipped TVs didn't do HDCP for one reason or another. Any recent devices with HDMI will support HDCP though which is true for the most part of DVI equipped devices as well (about 90% of DVI inputs will also support HDCP but read your box/manual and do your homework before assuming that it does).So if it has HDMI inputs, you are pretty safe.
That why I said it will say HDCP compliant on it if it is. I didn't think it was really that hard to understand.Not a true statement. Taken directly from hdmi.org
"With certain exceptions, nearly all HDMI devices on the market include HDCP support. DVI devices, in particular earlier versions of DVI, are more likely to lack HDCP support."
So if it has HDMI inputs, you are pretty safe.