Posts by lstepnio

I'm able to play that BR movie back flawlessly on my HTPC with a low-end C2D CPU with 1GB of RAM using ATI DXVA bit-streaming. The CPU usage is always under 15% with anything I've thrown at it that is able to bit-stream. I've yet to...

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I have a HD HTPC in our living room and two PCH's between bedroom and office. The advantage with a HTPC is the flexibility to play anything and play the way you want it at the cost of time to setup. The HTPC could also bring a nice...

I encode with a FLAC and AC3 track with the AC3 being tagged as default. I'm using Zoomplayer on my HTPC which overrides the files default and selects FLAC as the default audio track if it exists. I ran into problems on my PCH client...

The Harmony "One" is almost perfect only short of RF support. I paid a little over $100.00 for mine using the live.com ebay rebates so deals can be found.

dbpoweramp to flac is the way to go, worth every penny.

I recently stopped using my HDHR as I've switched over to downloading all television content. If anyone is looking to purchase a used HDHR for $99+shipping give me a PM.

I've been running on XP but I'm not using MCE . I tried Vista but ended up going back to XP and it's always been 100% stable and everything works under XP (DXVA, LPCM, etc). I'm waiting for Win7 SP1 before I even consider upgrading.

You really should give LPCM over HDMI considering it's a

If you're using Zoomplayer use SmartPlay feature to manage your filters. Once defined as long as the filters exists the graph will always be built the same way. This makes updating filter very painless as well.