2006-03-11, 03:29 AM
Greetings and Salutations everybody,
First of all a big shout out of THANKS to sub for a great piece of software. It's amazing to see something of such quality being offered at no charge. Fantastic.
Is there a heirarchy when it comes to installing Plug-Ins? I just want images on my library folders, Weather, DVD ripping/authoring, and be able to use it all with the MVP to the extent possible.
Now that I've got 96.08 set up and working 98% the way I want it, I've been contemplating additions that will add the functionality and little nuances I want. I've been reading and reading about each of the plug-ins and find myself a little confused. Some seem to overlap and some do the same things with different tools.
All I really want is:
1.)weather - this seems simple and I should have no problem.
2.)to have the nifty little images associated with my folders, recordings and mp3s, and maybe guide channels.
3.)to be able to burn my recordings to a DVD that will play on the crappiest of cheapo DVD players.
4.)be able to save DVDs to the hard disk and view over the MVP.
If I could get some suggestions on which plug-ins would be best for these things and in which order they are best installed, I would be most appreciative.
Please keep in mind that I'm a bit of a doofus and I'm slowly getting a handle on all the intracacies of encoding, muxing and all that, so please go easy. Thanks in advance.
Cheers
Jeff
My system:
XP Pro SP2
Antec TPII 380W
P4 3.0E
Asus P4S8X-MX (onboard 661GX woo hoo)
1GB Kingston RAM
PVR150 retail - receiving OTA via rabbit ears
PVR150 MCE sans FM - receiving S-video from DTV box + 2nd OTA antenna
(2) 80GB IDE + (1) 250GB S-ATA
Wired Media MVP outputting S-Video to old curved-screen 27" TV
First of all a big shout out of THANKS to sub for a great piece of software. It's amazing to see something of such quality being offered at no charge. Fantastic.
Is there a heirarchy when it comes to installing Plug-Ins? I just want images on my library folders, Weather, DVD ripping/authoring, and be able to use it all with the MVP to the extent possible.
Now that I've got 96.08 set up and working 98% the way I want it, I've been contemplating additions that will add the functionality and little nuances I want. I've been reading and reading about each of the plug-ins and find myself a little confused. Some seem to overlap and some do the same things with different tools.
All I really want is:
1.)weather - this seems simple and I should have no problem.
2.)to have the nifty little images associated with my folders, recordings and mp3s, and maybe guide channels.
3.)to be able to burn my recordings to a DVD that will play on the crappiest of cheapo DVD players.
4.)be able to save DVDs to the hard disk and view over the MVP.
If I could get some suggestions on which plug-ins would be best for these things and in which order they are best installed, I would be most appreciative.
Please keep in mind that I'm a bit of a doofus and I'm slowly getting a handle on all the intracacies of encoding, muxing and all that, so please go easy. Thanks in advance.
Cheers
Jeff
My system:
XP Pro SP2
Antec TPII 380W
P4 3.0E
Asus P4S8X-MX (onboard 661GX woo hoo)
1GB Kingston RAM
PVR150 retail - receiving OTA via rabbit ears
PVR150 MCE sans FM - receiving S-video from DTV box + 2nd OTA antenna
(2) 80GB IDE + (1) 250GB S-ATA
Wired Media MVP outputting S-Video to old curved-screen 27" TV