My parents just got a HDTV and I want to hook a DVR that I built for them up to it. Right now, I am using the s-video out from the video card into the TV. I'm not impressed with how it looks on the TV. It looks better than it did with the old standard TV, but not what I was expecting.

Anyway, it looks like I have two new options for hooking my DVR to the new TV. I guess I use the VGA out from the DVR in both cases. One option is to use one of two HDMI inputs for the TV. The other is to us the "PC" input to the TV. In both cases I need to buy a special wire.

Does anyone know if one of these methods is better than the other? Also, what should I expect it to look like? I am assuming that it will look much better than it does than with the s-video cable I'm using now.

-cwineman

When PVRX2 1.1.5 is started, you dump a file one of your Video Library folder. Go to Video Library, the file doesn't show up until you go into a sub-folder (I have sub-folders in my main Video Library dir) then go back to the parent folder. The file will then show up in the list.

Is there any way to lock the aspect ratio when GBPVR is windowed on the desktop?

Hi All,

I've got an on board sound card and a pci sound card. Anyone know how I can easily switch between the two. Here's why.

Normally I would like my 5.1 system, but at night or when the little one sleeps I like to use stereo headsets. Right now I've got a hack solution where I have to plug in the headphones (with long cords) into my speaker headphone jack and then tell the HTPC to use stereo sound rather than 5.1 sound. This works, but I would like a more elegant solution. Like this:

2 sound cards, one for 5.1 another for stereo speakers (headphones) and both are plugged in
switch between the two depending on the situation - this includes telling windows that it's either a stereo setup or a 5.1 setup. Ideally, this would be a button menu in GBPVR.

Is this possible?

I would then like to have wireless headphones to complete the look

I have a problem when recording from live tv. When I hit the record button on my remote, I get a menu where I can select 'Record until end of current program', 'Record for specified time', or 'Record until I exit live tv'.

The first two options appear to work fine, but if I want to use the third option, Record until I exit live tv, I get an error message. The message is 'Error: Object reference not set to an instance of an object'. What does this mean, and how do I fix the problem?

I am generally satisfied with the performance of my system(including HD despite my low end specifications). My last real complaint is analog TV, specifically the quality of the picture on my LCD TV. I am currently using the PureVideo decoder(it's the only one that provides smooth HD playback on my system). For standard analog NTSC TV PureVideo appears to be upscaling the video a bit(maybe +10%) which I believe is resulting in the degradation in quality of analog TV. I turned on the FFDShow postprocessing and it indeed improves the quality of the analog TV picture. I do notice that with FFDShow turned on that the analog TV picture is smaller(thus has less scaling than Purevideo) which I believe in part leads to the better picture quality with FFDShow. However, FFDShow when turned on with Purevideo this leads to a lockup of PVRX2 when tuning HD channels(it's OK on analog channels).

So my question is can you set some level of scaling with Purevideo in perhaps an effort to scale the analog TV video appropriately? Or are there smoothing functions for Purevideo that can lead to better picture quality? I noticed when running cable directly to the LCD that it stretches the image to be full screen and then applies extreme smoothing-this makes the picture look decent but more muddied compared to what I see in PVRX2.

Or is there a way to turn on FFDShow so that it can coexist with Purevideo and not cause lockups when tuning HD channels?

Hopefully this post makes sense.

Sorry if this is a dumb question but is there an easy way that SearchWiz can just bring up all shows in alphabetical order.

I tried adding a search filter where "a" is in the title but pvrx2.exe went to 100% cpu and memory consumption went through the roof.

I currently have an old 5" LCD screen hooked to an MVP sitting by my computer. I'll occasionally have a game or something on it, but I was wondering if there was any other type of software that people have run on them?

Hi,

I mounted an iso image contains a DVD over the network (100m bps) The performance is extremely bad. Video freezes frequently and not responding well to remote.

Has anyone encountered this issue with network mounted iso playback?

Thanks in Advance

I'm planning on assembling an HTPC in the near future, and have begun to research the components I should use. I am planning on using the BioStar TForce TF 7050 board (found on newegg here http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.as...6813138061).
My question is: What processor would you guys recommend (keeping in mind that I don't have unlimited funds! )? Do I need a dual core chip or not? I'm primarily going to be using this box for watching and recording SDTV, with a possible upgrade later on to HDTV. I'll also probably use emulators to play my collection of SNES and N64 games, etc. Any input would be appreciated.
Thanks!