Andrew Van Til

[Andrew Van Til]

I have to admit that I’ve always been very skeptical of voice controlled remotes, but this is really cool – the video does a great job of demonstrating that.

Biggest problem is that it’s not as flexible as the Harmony for creating macros, custom buttons, etc. which would make it really hard for me to use at home.

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What kind of CPU usage are you seeing? 

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in basedecoder.h

mfxStatus  QueryIMPL(mfxIMPL *impl)
    {
        m_mfxVideoSession.QueryIMPL(impl);

#ifdef MFX_EMULATE_HW
        *impl = MFX_IMPL_HARDWARE;
#endif
if(m_bLie)
*impl = MFX_IMPL_SOFTWARE;

        return MFX_ERR_NONE;
    };

where m_bLie is a variable I created and set in the constructor for the VC1 decoder filter

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I had to make that change too.  If that was the only change, they must have fixed something in the SDK.

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What did you change?  I had to disable pure HWA to get it to work with WVC1.

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A firmware update was released tonight that addresses the multi-channel PCM issue.  Non Dobly/DTS multi-channel formats are output as multi-channel PCM now.

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[quote=”Mikinho”]
Well the native 7MC drivers are still limited to a single HD-PVR (that is being worked on)
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Wow – that’s lame.

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You might want to try the USB->Serial channel changer for DTV.  I think the Hauppauge added support for external dlls in the 7MC driver.

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[quote=”bbig119″]
Is the $150 a pre-order special or is that going to be the normal price?
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AFAIK it’s the the normal price.

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[quote=”autoboy”]
The Video card will not affect the UI experience.  The amount of video RAM will have no effect on the video playback capabilities.
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Once you get beyond a certain level that is true, but at the lower end the playback experience is related to GPU performance and video RAM speed.

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[quote=”autoboy”]
and the lack of a front USB port. 
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I’m glad they didn’t mar the front with USB ports. 

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[quote=”xjboonie”]
Ok – pressing one of the media keys woke it up. But a new problem: the LAN connection is disconnected when it wakesup and won’t reconnect. I can’t even open it’s properties w/o a reboot.

Thoughts?
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If the NIC doesn’t resume properly it’s a driver issue – make sure you’re running the latest.

Is it an integrated NIC?  If not, some motherboards have an option in BIOS to reinitialize PCI devices when on resume, if the driver update does work that’s an option too.

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[quote=”Naylia”]
Yes, but you already have the plugin community providing full Netflix and Hulu support via PlayOn. Which while not perfect, solves most people’s needs. Although integrated Netflix support would be great.

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Personally I think Netflix would be a big win for them.  While it’s true that there are workarounds, I don’t use them because they aren’t as good as the client built into 7MC or other CE devices.  That said, I don’t think they’d need a PlayReady license to do Netflix on the PC (how hard would it be to wrap Silverlight?), so I’m hoping for native support on extenders.

CableCard, and any other tuners that come which require PlayReady on the PC, is of course the biggest target I think, but like autoboy mentioned I don’t think the HD200 (which uses Sigma’s 8635 – i.e. the one w/ less DRM) can support it (I don’t think PlayReady is required for non-PC support of the content) but who knows, maybe it is just for Netflix or some other purpose.

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[quote=”Naylia”]
I like the concept of being able to swap out the boards. This way you can customize the AVR to the types of inputs most relevant to your system and upgrade in the future. The key will be to see how well they manage the upgrade boards. For this to take off they really need to follow through on the upgrades.
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I completely agree – it’s one of the things I really like about using a HTPC.  That said, you can buy and throw away a lot of mid-range AVR for $4k 🙂

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[quote=”Meester.Rip”]
Also if I use the WHS app to move recorded TV off the HTPC is the network smart enough to route the data straight from the server to the XBOX or does the HTPC play it and does the extender watch it through a terminal service view?
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I believe that all streams are split on the server (7MC) which means it won’t play directly off the WHS.

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