Posts by najames

Sorry, MECBuddy was not my buddy. I tried a couple different options both ended in the same way. This was a movie recorded with SageTV 7. --> frame=15803 fps= 27 q=19.0 size= 147805kB time=00:08:46.05 bitrate=2301.7kbits/s dup=1...

I bought 2 Panasonic plasmas a couple years ago and we've been extremely happy with them so far. They are only 720p but at the 15ft distance we sit at they look stunning and I doubt we'd tell the difference with 1080p. Newer Panasonics...

If you want to encode video, you may want to consider a i3 CPU so you can use Quicksync at some point. I haven't checked recently but don't think the Pentuim series has it. Asrock has several motherboards with 8 Sata ports, wish I...

Quote: Originally Posted by StinDaWg I take it no one else is having these problems? I did a google search and I can't find anything else on it. I find it very bizarre that this is happening when everything worked perfect in Win...

Quote: Originally Posted by stanger89 An HD recording is about 2.5MB/sec (or less). Hi old buddy!! Yup, but I was getting 3.86MB/sec until I reinstalled and got the Intel driver working. I often have multiple streams recording. I...

Quote: Originally Posted by jhoff80 The PCI Simple Communications device is usually the Intel HECI or AMT driver, I can't remember which. Thanks, I'll take a look at it today. Eiffel, I'd be happy if they could just put a power...

Quote: Originally Posted by kegobeer You shouldn't need to edit the inf, just try it. When I first started using 7, I used Vista Intel drivers the same way - extract and manually update. 8 might not ask for drivers. If it doesn't,...

Motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-H55M-S2H, sorry box didn't have GA in the name. http://www.gigabyte.us/products/prod...px?pid=3523#dl I'll hack out the Intel inf and give a try later tonight, but Win8 didn't appear to even search for...

Quote: Originally Posted by kegobeer Don't use the installer - download the drivers, extract them, right click on the NIC in device manager, and manually update the drivers. Sounds like a driver issue - again, just download the Realtek...

From an eariler post, I was only getting 4MB/s networking throughput on the Win8 customer preview. I couldn't get back the networking for my Realtek 8111D onboard chip, so I reinstalled the Win8 customer preview. It still isn't showing...