Windows 7 Media Center : Setup Guide, Knowledge Base & Support - Page 139

I am looking for upscale info as well. I spoke with my BIL who uses ffdshow and some filters to upscale. I think that's the route you and I will be taking for upscaling.

Great idea, I doubt MS or anyone has implemented anything like what you suggest.

I had the same problem, and the shows are series recordings, so I just set 7mc to stop 1hr after in the series preferences. Now my 1 hr show is always 2 hours long, sometimes the first 30-40 min are football but I have yet to miss any of my show.

That's a better solution than recording the next show as I'd been doing. Thanks.

quick question on movie playback - I have a few ripped movies that have a very small amount of black bars on top/bottom. Now this is not a 2.35 : 1 movie either. It is a 1.85 : 1 that should be filling the screen all the way. Anything I am missing?

Some of these files are MKV that were converted in handbrake.

What about Color Pixel Format setting?

under My Digital Flat Panel - Properties - Enable GPU Scaling on/off and Enable ITC Processing on/off.

1:85 films - if they're left at 1:85 and not opened up to 1:78 as is commonly done - aren't going to fully fill your 1:78 screen.

NTSC DVDs that are truly 1:85 are going to have roughly 16 pixels of black bars encoded into the video; 1080p, a bit over 40 pixels.

Well I need to double check the following but I believe the movie shows up fine streaming to my oppo or my wdtv just not when I play it back from within mce. This is on a blu ray I converted within handbrake.

Not sure what is going on then. I looked up Drive Angry and Bad Teacher and both say 1.85:1. Drive Angry fills the full screen....Bad Teacher has very small black bars top/bottom of screen. Both were downsized in HB settings but I don't see anything different between the two of them comparing the files in mediainfo.

what about Enable GPU Scaling on/off ?

I heard you only need a 15 minute overlap for this.

Oh? I've seen programs delayed a lot more than that due to a game running over, even when it doesn't go into overtime.

Is it possible to get reclock to work within windows media center and not using an external player?

See post from Renethx on Playing back BD and DVD ISO with MPC HomeCinema + WMC

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showt...6#post21560386

I added Windows Media Center SE to my Harmony One and the device power is setup as (toggle) is this correct, or should I set to one button for powerOn, one for powerOff?

Also,
How the heck do I get my PC to sleep using my harmony? Is there an easy solution? I made sure my eHome was set to allow to wake, but allow to sleep is greyed out. It is not however greyed out on the USB hub its plugged into.

The mapped MC SE Power Off and Power Toggle do not power my pc off. However, assinging a sequence to Alt F4 2x + OK will sleep my pc. Now the trick is how do I get this to happen when I hit the Harmony MASTER Power.

My MCE remote is setup in Harmony as the Ortek VRC-1100 (someone online recommended to use that) and I am able to both Sleep and Wake by using the "power toggle" command. Then I made sure that my motherboard BIOS was set to allow "wake on USB". The mouse and keyboard (which is normally kept in a drawer) can also wake the PC now.

Updating remote now. Will keep you posted. I'm sure I will need to tweak settings and button assignments to get this to fluently work with MediaBrowser + MPC-HC combo.

I regret doing that move. The power toggle sends an RF command, but my PC nor the MediaCenter app recognize it.

Before, when I sent a LiveTV + Guide command it was flashing T C in mediabrowser. Does anyone know what that means?

Is pressing Live TV actually sending a keyboard T and pressing Guide a C respectively?

Did you update your BIOS to allow wake on USB?



Live TV is Ctrl + T and Guide is Ctrl + G. Not sure what T C would mean.

Question, do codec packs's like sharks provide any benefit when playing live TV via 7 media center? I recently purchased an LED TV, and I'm having a lot of jery/judder, that wasn't present on the LCD TV it replaced. I've read in number of forums that there are alternate renders which will help with the 3:2 pull down and other issues that relate to the film to video conversion and 30-60FPS issues, but I'm not clear if any of these solutions offer their magic on live TV. So far my only conclusion is that LED's are not as good as hiding the FPS issues as fluorescent backlit LCD's.

I was running a Radeon 5450 but recently upgraded to the GT430, just to give nvidia a test run, I don't see a difference between the two. there's not a lot of setting options in the nvidia control panel, I've disable the dynamic contrast and color enhancement, and then ran the the hack to get Full RBG 0-255 during the setup, can confirm it works, everything else is default.

I'm not an expert on the subject matter, more of a weekend warrior, but as I mentioned, other than the 29/59 bug channels, my setup was running fine until I upgraded to an LED backlit TV (UN55d8000) from the standard fluorescent backlit model (LN52B750).

I have a separate system running a clarkdale with the integrated graphics, I may swap PC's and see if that helps.

Thanks
Dan

Have you tried adjusting the settings in the TV's Picture Options menu? Anything that has to do with reducing noise or removing motion artifacts is a good candidate.

Some judder problems are due to incompatible settings between the settings in the graphic card's control panel and the TV menu. In my case, I had to disable a setting called CineMotion to avoid judder. 'worth a try...

I don't use any of the GPU's post video processing, all settings default to use those of the video player, in my case what ever 7MC I assume, and I'm not sure there are any controls to activate in 7MC. But maybe I should turning on the GPU post processing, hum.

I've tried with a number of combinations of the digital noise filter, Mpeg noise filter, Auto-motion plus at part of the TV's controls, but the judder is not consistent form channel to channel, and even the programs on the same channel vary, some have judder some don't.

anyone know a link for a download program that shows media info?

I have a clean install and lost it.

In my old system if I held my mouse over a movie file or folder it would show in a window the media info.

ANyone help ?

Media Info does a great job of that.

Available on Sourceforge or compiled into various codec packs (Shark has it).

Guys looking for some opinions on Music Playback -

I have a Squeezebox as of right now but that will get moved/sold.

I want something I can control from my android device. I don't need the tv on while listening. Some options I am looking into -

Foobar on my HTPC with foobar android app

Squeezeplay and Logitech Squeezebox Controller.

Is there any decent options for XBMC/WMC playback.

Oh I also would like to create different playlists and be able to use those for playback.

guys, which digital tuners do you use with your Win7 setup?

i've heard very nice reviews about the HP USB and AverTv Volar Max tuners, but these are USB stick tuners and I am a little skeptic about the picture quality they deliver considering they are not PCI-e based.

i am looking for something that is reliable and deliver good picture quality.

many thanks!

I am currently using a Hauppauge PVR 2250 dual tuner. It is PCI-e based, and has two ATSC tuners on one card so you can record two things at once. I also have an older PCI Dvico Fusion 5, but am not currently using it in that PC (no real need to install it, don't often need to record 3 things at once). The nice thing about the 2250's chipset is that all the encoding processing is on the card itself, so it doesn't impact system performance by offloading to your CPU. Other cards I used would slow down your computer and you couldn't do things while it was recording in the background.

I have never used a USB tuner myself, but I wouldn't be worried about their picture quality. For digital streams, it's going to be bit perfect copies of what your local OTA stations send out. The only thing I'd be worried about is if your computer can handle the bitrates that HD video consumes, because with USB tuners the processing power will be on the CPU. If you've got a fast enough computer, it shouldn't be a problem. My coworker uses a USB tuner on his older laptop with no issues. USB 2.0 is more than capable of the maximum throughput 18 mbps you will get from an OTA station.

thanks tighr.

the tuner will be on an HTPC with AMD Athlon II X2 3.0Ghz, 8GB RAM, and ATI Radeon 5670 vid card.

I've been running blu-ray playback on this system without a glitch. I hope this is more than adequate for OVA stream.