Andrew Van Til
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Is there a way to quantify the quality of conditioning to compare a UPS with something that just does conditioning?
I ask because we have power outages occasionally so I use a UPS now, and I like the idea of having the battery to let the TV cool down properly if the power goes out. But if it’s not as good as something different it would be worth trading out.
Why wouldn’t you want to use a UPS with power conditioning features built in?
Probably a disrespectful driver. Run powercfg /lastwake to figure out which one.
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Geeks aren’t the people this thing is aimed at. Geeks would pay a little more and get a Zino.
[/quote]1) I disagree. If it weren’t aimed at geeks they wouldn’t have swapped out the Tegra for a more capable SOC. Non-geeks don’t care about high bit-rate AVC decoding; the Apple TV a perfect e.g. of a device targeted at that demographic.
2) You missed the context of that statement. It was in reference to the hackability of the device, now that it’s x86 based it would be much easier to repurpose into a nice little Myth client for e.g..
Form factor and geek appeal.
Personally I completely agree, but there is a large segment of the market that doesn’t need DVR functionality and just want a streamer that works but doesn’t look like a DLNA browser.
I’m also interested in the potential to buy one of these and use it as a client PC 🙂
7MC will wake up for recordings, and I believe that the 360 will send a WOL packet to the HTPC when it tries to connect – I don’t think the other 7MC extenders will.
HD300s are in stock – http://twitter.com/SageTV/status/24139938757
Wouldn’t standby be a better option? The difference in watts b/w S3 and S5 is usually just a couple, and it comes back up much faster.
If you’re using MPC-HC, their MKV and M2TS splitters are better than Haali.
No. The numbers were actually quite a bit lower when m_bLie = FALSE, but then required two plays to start up. I never took the time to figure out why it didn’t like what Haali (or the MPC-HC splitter) sent the first time.
DXVA2 does require the EVR and a presenter that supports it, the EVR is exposed in MF but it works fine with DS too. I haven’t tested with the MPC-HC’s presenter, so it’s possible that it doesn’t work with the filter.
What do you see in GraphStudio with the EVR (which will use the stock presenter)?
The MediaSDK VC-1 decoder is DXVA2 only on Intel GPUs (tested with an i5 and i3), on other GPUs it’s SW only (~15% on my Q6600 + ATI3650).
Now that Sage has there own MKV splitter I’ve been using the ArcSoft TMT2 Video Decoder instead, so I haven’t messed w/ the Intel one for a while.
No, not really 🙂
What do you see with the version I compiled? I was seeing 7-10% for VC-1.
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