Posts Categorised: HTPCs

0Antec Fusion Remote HTPC Case LogoComparison of HTPC GPU’s

Δημοσίευσε με & κατατίθενται στο πλαίσιο Media PC Hardware, Νέα. Τελευταία ενημέρωση .

Anandtech has an excel­lent art­icle com­par­ing 4 bot­tom end GPU’s for HTPC’s.  The art­icle is extens­ive and does a good job of explain­ing issues of fram­er­ate tim­ing, cadence detec­tion, tele­cin­ing and pull­down as well as com­par­ing the 4 GPU’s. As we don’t believe in rein­vent­ing the wheel — we recom­mend any­one build­ing a HTPC setup read the art­icle before set­ting out.

0AMD Vision Fusion Premium LogoFusion E‑450 coming

Δημοσίευσε με & κατατίθενται στο πλαίσιο Media PC Hardware, Νέα. Τελευταία ενημέρωση .

Semi­Ac­cur­ate has news that AMD are to immin­ently release a new Zacate mem­ber of the Brazos plat­form. Accord­ing to pre­vi­ous inform­a­tion on Anandtech και Hex­us the E‑450 is clocked at 1.65GHz (up from 1.60GHz) and has graph­ics clocked at 600MHz (up from 500MHz).  It will also reportedly sup­port high­er speeds of DDR3 memory, and fea­ture some kind of turbo.

0FFmpeg Logoffdshow DXVA fixed

Δημοσίευσε με & κατατίθενται στο πλαίσιο Codecs, Νέα. Τελευταία ενημέρωση .

DXVA in ffd­show, which was [int­link id=“937” type=“post”]broken for the last few builds[/intlink], appears to have been fixed, at least in the 3878 x64 build from 11ου June.

17Via Mini-ITX 2 LogoDual-Tuner Mini-ITX Build?

Δημοσίευσε με & κατατίθενται στο πλαίσιο Media PC Hardware. Τελευταία ενημέρωση .

After dis­cus­sions on a [int­link id=“919” type=“post”]recent article[/intlink] I wondered if it is pos­sible to build a set-top box sized HTPC with dual-tuner cards inside. To achieve set-top box size means going Mini-ITX, but with the release of a range of Mini ITX AMD Fusion boards this is the easy part. Mini-ITX nor­mally only includes 1 expan­sion slot, so to include 2 tuners requires a cre­at­ive solution.
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0Blackgold BGT3630 LogoBlackgold: The ultimate TV tuner card?

Δημοσίευσε με & κατατίθενται στο πλαίσιο Media PC Hardware. Τελευταία ενημέρωση .

Whilst look­ing for drivers for my Pin­nacle 3010ix freeview tuner I noticed Black­gold have a new TV tuner due on the mar­ket. The Black­gold BGT3630 looks pro­vi­sion­ally to tick all the boxes for me. It sup­ports DVB-T/T2 AND DVB-S/S2 as well as Ana­log and Cable DVB-C!  So everything and the kit­chen sink. The card is also sup­plied with low and full pro­file brack­ets and fits a PCI-E 1x slot. I sup­pose the only thing lack­ing is that it seems to only be a single-tuner for each format. Of course 2 cards solves that (if you have 2 pci‑e slots free in your HTPC)
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0FFmpeg LogoDXVA problem with recent releases of ffdshow

Δημοσίευσε με & κατατίθενται στο πλαίσιο Codecs. Τελευταία ενημέρωση .

The most recent releases of the ffd­show try­outs seem to have broken DXVA sup­port. Until the prob­lem gets fixed I recom­mend stick­ing to your cur­rent release, or going back to ffdshow_rev3785_20110323_clsid_x64 or ffdshow_rev3721_20110107_clsid_icl10

17AMD Vision Fusion Premium LogoNew HTPC — Asus E35M1‑M Pro (AMD Fusion)

Δημοσίευσε με & κατατίθενται στο πλαίσιο Media PC Hardware. Τελευταία ενημέρωση .

I’ve just upgraded my HTPC — or rather “side-graded” it from a Pen­ti­um Dual­Core to an Asus E35M1‑M Pro. Below I’ll doc­u­ment my thoughts as I give the sys­tem a full workout
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0FFmpeg LogoUnsolved: Decoding interlaced vc1 in Media Center x64

Δημοσίευσε με & κατατίθενται στο πλαίσιο Codecs. Τελευταία ενημέρωση .

Whilst my MediaPC setup can decode just about everything thrown at it, I have had prob­lems decod­ing inter­laced VC1 con­tent. The prob­lem is caused by the fail­ure of ffm­peg to sup­port inter­laced vc1. Whilst there are oth­er codecs (e.g. cyber­link or arc­soft) these are cur­rently not avail­able as x64. Cyber­link do have an x64 codec for h.264 and mpeg2, but I haven’t been able to get it to work with VC1 con­tent. Hope­fully ffm­peg will fix inter­laced vc1 sup­port soon, but as its been on the to do list for over 2 years I’m not hold­ing my breath

2MCEBuddy LogoMCEBuddy Reloaded: h264 wtv conversion

Δημοσίευσε με & κατατίθενται στο πλαίσιο Misc Media Software, Windows Media Center. Τελευταία ενημέρωση .

I have wanted the facil­ity to con­vert my recor­ded WTV files to anoth­er format for as long as I’ve had a MediaPC. The lead can­did­ate has always been MCE­Buddy, but for over 2 years the pro­ject was stalled (as far as the user was con­cerned at least) by prob­lems sup­port­ing h264 video inside wtv files.… Διαβάστε ολόκληρο το άρθρο

0FFmpeg LogoLAV — A new splitter

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A new dir­ect­show split­ter has become avail­able. If you’re not happy with the offer­ings from Haali and Gabest then you might like to try LAV.  I haven’t tried it myself yet, so I can­’t cur­rently offer any more inform­a­tion. It does men­tion split­ting wtv files though, so I will be try­ing it in the near future.
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