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[phoneguyinpgh]

Yes Andrew, that is playing much smoother.  Not as smooth as my networked BluRay player but deffinately much better than W7MC.  Is this because of MPC-HC or the way it has the LAV filters set up?  How do I get this to work w/ W7MC???

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I figured it out.  Launch it as an external player using Media Browser.  Just a few tweeks & it works just like W7MC.

Is there any advantage to using any of the other renderers listed in MPC-HCs configureation?  It defaulted to it’s internal high quality renderer but I was wonder if any of the others gave better image quality?

Thanks for the hints again.

[phoneguyinpgh]

There is, it is labled “Pulldown Detection”.  I get the stuttering both w/ & w/o it enabled.  I have tried using just the ffdshow filters and the stuttering is still there. 

Last week I downloaded XMBCbuntu and loaded it onto a thumbdrive and booted one of the AMD systems w/ it.  Once I tweeked the video settings everything played smooth, both SD & HD material.  What player/filters does XBMC use?  Can I use them w/ W7MC?

[phoneguyinpgh]

I just bought a 65″ ZT60.  I’m still getting everything setup in my new game room after an 8 month remodling project.  I haven’t even calibrated it yet and I’m blown away.  If money is no concern, well I was looking foward to this before I even started the project.

[phoneguyinpgh]

I just bought a 65″ ZT60.  I’m still getting everything setup in my new game room after an 8 month remodling project.  I haven’t even calibrated it yet and I’m blown away.  If money is no concern, well I was looking foward to this before I even started the project.

[phoneguyinpgh]

Solved!!

I had to run through the tuner set-up on all my machines. the guide data is now back. We’ll see how long it holds.

[phoneguyinpgh]

I’ve never used Intel graphics for my HTPC but I had the same issue about 2years ago using an ATI 5450 card.  The issue as I understand it is an incompatability between the MPG encoder the network is using and the MS decoder. When the frame rate would change the brightness level would flash.  It was only on a few channels and only with a few programs. The solution for me was to upgrade my graphics card.  An Nvidia 430GT worked but it’s SD performance was terrible. I am currently using an AMD A4 w/ 6450 graphics in it and there are no flashing issues. Good luck. Let us know how it goes.

[phoneguyinpgh]

How about an HDMI splitter, and the some HDMI over Cat5 set-ups to send the video from the PC to all the TVs?

[phoneguyinpgh]

Question:  How far apart will the TVs be from each other and the location where you want to updated this material?

 

[phoneguyinpgh]

Andrew,

Thanks… I will give this a try when I get home from work.

Update:

 

1st I restored a system backup from before I started all the messing around.

 

I checked for an ATI authored driver and there aren’t any in the system.  All the compatable drivers are authored by RealTek.  I think it may be due to the fact that the HDMI port is on the MB and not a discrete graphics card. I do think that the driver is the issue and not LAV audio since live TV audio is not broken it just starts to bounce after 5 min. I’ll check around for an update. Thanks for the help.

 

 

 

 

[phoneguyinpgh]

I uninstalled the codecs last night and still had bouncing audio.  Through trial and error I found that the LAV codecs are the most efficient and use the least CPU with smooth playback. 

To my best knowledge the HDMI audio driver loaded with CCC.  I’m not sure how to browse my system to find a potential alternate driver, but when I remove the item from device manager Win always automatically rediscovers the current driver.

One thing I did notice is that, when I disable the the HDMI audio device, the TV speakers still have sound.

[phoneguyinpgh]

I am using LAV audio and video through the SHARK007 pack.  I have it set to bit stream audio for all formats with no other alterations set.  I use LAV for video decoding of H264 and VC1 encoded MKVs.  Should I disable MPG audio and video decoding in LAV video and audio?

The device properties says that it is ATI HMDI audio and the drivers author is RealTek.  Is there a different driver I should be looking for to use with the ATI HMDI audio?  How do I tell which is which?

[phoneguyinpgh]

Andrew,

1.  I am using Shark007 for MKV playback.  I uninstalled them and still have bouncing audio.

2.  The drivers state that they are from Realtek so I am assuming they are correct.

Aaron,

1.  None of the OTA or Fios channels are using PCM audio.  I did try a 1 chan DD station and it bounced as well.

2.  I think you may be right, there may be some HDMI<>HDMI Ooggidy-Booggidy going on that I don’t have the time, resources or technical wear-with-all to resolve.  I’m just not that good.

3.  I am going to fall back to the optical link for the HTPC. 

All my rips are in DD or DTS.  Since the optical link can send PCM, DD & DTS I’m not losing anthing I had before.  I just wanted to get rid of an extra cable and hopefully simplify some things.  I have never been able to get subtitles or 24fps video to work on my HTPC either, that’s the reason I have a networked BluRay player that I can put the original disc into and get subtitles, 24fps and now it appears DD-HD and DTS-HD sound as well if I so chose since the BR players’ HDMI connections is working fine.

Thanks for the suggestions.  If anyone has a solution I’d love to hear it and I’ll give it a try.  Not urgently needed, just curious.  Thanks again.

[phoneguyinpgh]

Aaron,

I spent all evening on this one.  I reinstalled the audio drivers, no joy. I tried the AVR and TV set up with Audio Return Channel enabled and disabled, no joy x2.

I sent the HTPCs HDMI cable straight into the TV using the TVs speakers and HDMI audio and no bouncing audio.  I moved the HDMI cable back to the AVR and the audio is bouncing again.

The only audio I decode on the HTPC is music, mp3’s.  All other material, video, has it’s audio bit-streamed (either optical or HDMI) and decoded by the AVR.

Only Live TV has bouncing audio.  No other video source on the HTPC has this issue.  I can play MPGs, MKVs, DVDs, BluRays and recorded TV both HD & SD with no bouncing audio.

When the audio starts to bounce and I press the skip forward button (even though I never paused the Live Tv) the bouncing stops for 5~15 min and then starts bouncing again.  The duty cycle of the bouncing is also varying from 2~3 sec to 15 or so between bounces.

I disabled all other audio devices both output and input, still no joy.

I am thoroughly stumped on this one.  I’ve gone back to optical for the HTPC until I can figure this out.

[phoneguyinpgh]

I removed my filter friday night and watched all weekend with out it.  I still had a few hits which I am more apt to atribute to VZ’s network.  I did not note the signal level or s/n ratio but I can if that would be helpfull?

[phoneguyinpgh]

I do not use those coax adapters, but I do use that filter you are refering to and do notice the occassional hit or drop out too.  I no longer have VZ’s router connected to my coax so I will remove the filter when I get home and see if I have a change in performance.

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