Windows 7 Media Center : Setup Guide, Knowledge Base & Support - Page 108

I know. I do the same thing sometimes. My kid is the worst at pointing out to me that I have used an undefined pronoun.

I didn't mean to be picky about pronoun use but I honestly didn't understand your statement.

This isn't Eng101 but rather an Audio/Visual Science site...

If you've already converted the HD audio (DTSHD MA or Dolby TrueHD) to FLAC, will Ripbot convert the audio to some lossy lower resolution format?

I know it can from dts ma. I have never tried with flac though as I have never used it. Best I could say would be to load up a file with flac and see what happens.

So, since I keep my HTPC off unless I'm using it I forced Windows Update today. When I saw SP1 I installled it and rebooted. But when the machine booted after the install I had no sound. I'm running internal audio on my Intel 975 mobo. Any ideas what happened and what the solution is?

Did you reinstall the drivers (graphics,sound)

No. This is necessary with a Windows update?

Some people had issues after installing sp1 (myself included) and installing the driver fixed it. (for some)

Just saying it only takes 5 minutes.

Also did you make sure the correct sound device is still set as default. It may have changed after the update.

You never know. An update as big as SP1 could set various settings back to default.

When I upgraded to SP1 and all other updates I also updated my graphics/sound drivers from Intel as they were new within a couple weeks. I did the drivers last so I don't know if there was no sound or not after SP1 on it's own. No issues here though with sound.

FYI I also took the opportunity to update all other drivers and such including Shark.

What I really meant to infer was if it does encode the HD audio FLAC to a lossy compressed lower resolution format, that would be bad. I would like to use RipBot to compress the video and retain the HD audio.

So, I guess I should have just asked if it was possible to use RipBot to compress an MKV with HD Audio that is FLAC to a smaller size by compressing just the video and not the audio.

I think the answer is yes, because I believe I may have tried this several months ago, but thought I might ask because the comments in the thread seemed to indicate otherwise.

Ok I just finished building my htpc. If I follow this guide from the beg to end, will I have all the software I need to make this thing sweet? Should I install the programs that came with my lg br burner or just use the ones in the guide?

Can you elaborate on what s/w was included?

Is it a retail box or is it OEM? A retail version may come with a slimmed down version of blu-ray playback software and (outdated) drivers whereas OEM usually comes with only (outdated) drivers.

Also, the question begs as to what is your intended purpose. Are going to use it for playback of blu-rays only or ripping them or playback of internet streams or download of content? Are you using a tuner card for QAM or OTA? The software that you chose to use will be dependent on what your intended use is.

Also, do you have a copy of Windows so you have an operating system on the HTPC?

Thanks all for the driver recommendation, but I think it's more complicated than just the driver. I have a 5 year old Intel 975 mobo and when I intsalled W7 last November the drivers provided with the mobo were incompatible with W7. Naturally, Intell stopped supporting the mobo a few years ago, so no new drivers. Finally a MS tech fixed the problem, but I can't remember what he did. I'll have to review my notes.

A lot of components on the MoBo are manufactured by other companies than the company that produces the MoBo. For example the NIC is probably Realtek and the USB is probably NEC. You may want to look at there websites for more information.

I have w7 ultimate on the pc, and the burner is a lg wh10ls30 it came with powerdvd, power2go, mediashow, youcam. And the drivers I suppose but windows already installed them. I plan on using the pc for everything you mentioned, dowloading, ripping, eventually getting a tuner maybe the silicon cable card one, streaming.

Turned out to be much simpler. The update switched the audio out from optical to HDMI, so I switched it back.

Yeah. I am now going to re-install windows for the third time as I have found that the updates are screwing up my settings and I have the updates set up only for download and notification without installation with the exception of Microsoft Security Essentials. I am probably going to live without MSE on my HTPC and just manually run malwarebytes every few days. I'd get my HTPC set up the way I wanted it and then the next night MS would mess it up for me to the point of it not functioning properly. If this doesn't stop it I may go try MythTV under Ubuntu.

Yah I always turn all updates off. Completely. I then check windows update maybe once a month and see whats there. It always seems to screw something up.

I used to run MSE on my htpc's but I got tired of it, it always ends up causing some problem. Or locking me from doing something, or deleting a file that is not bad. I don't run av's on any of my machines anymore. They are just a pain in the *ss. I just be smart about the sites I visit and stuff I download, never have any issues.

Do you have your network drives set for read only from the HTPC?

You should do windows update to manual and update only as needed. I do it about once every 3 months and I update everything else at the same time.

As for MSE, it should have no effect on any of your software. I have it running and you don't even know it's there. That's the great thing about it, silent and just plain works and doesn't interfere with anything.

What codecs are you running in WMC? It would seem that MSE thinks that they need to be disabled. I cannot find any other explanation for codecs set up one night being disabled the next morning other than this as MSE is the only thing on my HTPC that I allow to automatically make changes. The rest of the updates are set for download and notification but wait until I allow them to be installed. There are many in the que right now included SP1.

For those using my movies

I just posted a quick writeup on using the iPad to control My Movies in Windows Media Center, as well as initialize playback, if anyone is interested:

http://www.mediasmartserver.net/2011...vies-ipad-app/

I usually go through the updates manually, but I mistakenly thought a service pack was neccessary. I guess I'll have to be more careful about updates, especially with a 5 year old mobo.

Some good news that many will want to hear.
Here is the changelog for version 2.8.1 of the Shark007 Win7codecs

- enable upgrade from previous version
- add uninstall shortcut to the startmenu

No

I have a mental block or something....

Happauge 2250 tuner (Analog FM)
Don't have digital FM on my Yamaha 667 so it should be a cinch to get it off the internet? Or so I thought.

If I'm in the wrong forum just push ye olde farte towards the right area and I'll go away peacefully...promise.

Nice! Thnx

Just Shark007 pack, that's it.

I upgraded to SP1 and all current updates last week with no issues.

In any case, MSE isn't going to just turn off your codecs unless it flags one of those files as a virus. If it thinks something is a virus you'll know it as it will tell you (assuming you have it configured to do so). You could always check it's found/quaranteen list to be sure if you have it not notify you on screen.

What shark007 settings? Is this Win7x64? Do you do Live TV and HD Audio?

Win 7 32 bit. No reason to mess with 64 bit on an HTPC, too many issues that crop up for some reason for some people. Why bother.

Anyway, stock Shark with recommended settings and audio passthru enabled and Gabe/Divx foundation disabled for MKV. I think MS audio disabled as well. Pretty much it.

Yes Live TV. No HD audio.

But in any case, no matter what your settings are MSE or any AV software aren't going to mess with it unless you get a false positive on something. Hundreds of people here use MSE with no issues. MSE shouldn't be your problem.

So you use a TV Tuner card for Live (and PVR) TV with MS Audio Disabled so that you can playback mkvs with HD Audio and haven't had any problems, then. I had this set up just like you say for one day and the next day it started having issues with playback of live TV (choppy video) off my tuner card. You presume this is because of Win7x64 then? I am about to re-install Win7 but will probably go X86 this time and see how that goes.

EDIT: I just realized that you have the gabest splitter disabled and are not trying to get HD Audio out of your system. So maybe it isn't exactly the same as what I have going where I have the gabest splitter enabled and am trying to get HD Audio to play nice with Live TV.