Andrew Van Til
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1) You need to use the EVR to enable DXVA2 on Vista/7.
2) Your 4650 doesn’t support bit streaming; did you enabled LPCM output in the ffdshow settings?
[quote=”evilpenguin”]
I’d say my concern is more with the structure of the guide. The way you sandwich optional customizations between important steps will be confusing to newbies who will follow this guide word-for-word for their first setup. Maybe just move all the customization stuff (Plugins + Hidden extras) to its own section at the end and include the relevant links to the plugin threads.“Now that you’ve got your base Sage setup and running, here are some customization/enhancments that I enjoy that you might want to explore”…
[/quote]I see plugins and properties section as a good grouping of “optional changes that makes the experience better”.
There are many different ways to organize flow; like grouping by goal (i.e. enabling HD audio) instead of linearly. While I can see your point, it also creates a lot of redundancy. Instead of grouping by task I made a point of outlining the purpose of each step while following a linear workplan to completion so readers [that read and process the information] could determine relevancy and act accordingly.
[quote=”bebopblues”]
Nice job Andy!A trim version would be seem less daunting task to install SageTV for new users. I definitely didn’t do 70% of the those steps and SageTV runs fine with the HD200/HD300. Also, I think if you add a guide to set up an HDHR and HD-PVR, that would be most useful to a lot of users. And as long as you are getting into the web server plugin, you might as well mention steps to setup an IP redirection service (such as dyndns.com, no-ip.com, etc) so they can access the web server from the internet.
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Going to try to take a look at QAM tonight, but I don’t have a HDHR so can’t help with that one.
I’d like to do a guide for setting up FW channel changing with the HD PVR & FWChannelProxy at some point, and maybe one that shows how to use IIS7/7.5 as a reverse proxy for the Sage Web Server (so you don’t have to expose it directly on the interwebs) but I don’t use IP redirection so can’t do that one.
[quote=”evilpenguin”]
In that case, i’d argue that you shouldn’t include any that invovle external setup. I’d say just call out the Webserver as an example of the plugin process since its beneifts work for everyone right out of the box.
[/quote]So I shouldn’t call out the plugins I find useful? To be clear the screenshot was intended to demonstrate an e.g. of a plugin that requires the UI to recycle.
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[quote=”theblur20″]
The video cards (ati 4850 HDMI) while getting better are still not quite there when comparing to a video chip in a console unit even after extensive calibration..
[/quote]Really? I honestly have not been able to see much difference between the PC Graphics card and a dedicated unit. Though I dont have a unit to compare side by side.
[/quote]But seriously, there’s been threads and debates ever since the first HTPC came out debating the picture quality possibilities of it versus a separate dedicated device. There’s nothing definitive and usually just comes down to the individual’s opinion.
[/quote]Speaking about 1080p content there was a time when one could make the “PCs don’t do as good a job as a standalone player” argument but I’ve done side-by-side comparisons and if there are differences I can’t seem them. That said, there are still usability arguments that can be made to favor a discrete device.
Once we move to non-1080p (at least in my experience) there is a strong case to be made that the PC’s GPU does a better job than many standalone players.
[quote=”evilpenguin”]
Two things:1) It might be nice to copy/paste/trim a version of this guide that shows just the steps nessisary for using an entirly extender based setup.
2) You spefically call out the comskip playback plugin, but never any plugin that actually runs comskip.
[/quote]1) Good idea
2) Yep, that was an intentional scoping decision. If I covered all of the stuff I do to make everything on the HTPC work the guide would be 20-30 pages, and then I wouldn’t have material for more guides 🙂
Nothing that needs to be kept under wraps, just [url=http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=154070]something[/url] I haven’t tried and found on Doom9 which requires some system modifications.
It can decode TrueHD to LPCM, but will only decode core DTS from DTS-MA. There is a way to get the ArcSoft audio decoder to decode both to lossless LPCM, but that’s a more advanced topic 🙂
Sorry – I don’t have a HDHR or use QAM in Sage. The m780s I used in the guide should be able to handle QAM though, so I’ll give it a go and see what’s different.
Yeah – all the messing with filters (AC3Filter/Ffdshow) is only required for local playback.
80% of what Sage does just work OOTB – nailing the other 20% requires effort 🙂
Yeah, with CableCard Sage would cross one of the only big features still missing from the platform.
[quote=”Mikinho”]
While I don’t have much need for it since Intel HD Graphics has handled everything I’ve thrown at it, if I was an 3D HDTV owner I would jump all over it.
[/quote]The HQV-HD scores aren’t looking that great, so it might be worth waiting a couple drivers to see if they can clear that up.
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Aside from All Vid, there’s also another proposal on the table that is supposed be discussed this month at the FCC meeting. The proposal is to allow devices to be allowed to communicate to the cable head end via IP if the customer already has cable Internet.
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Hopefully that goes through, but I want #4 on that list the most 🙂
The timing of this announcement is interesting given the potential for rule changes next week…
[quote=”brennok”]
We need to get companies just to abandon TAs and come out with a better solution.
[/quote]Yep – it’s called “AllVid”.
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