check this out.....very cool...


Motorola Nyxboard Hybrid


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looks abit too boxy and bulky rite?

so what are the best remote u guys using? so far i using PS3 blutooth remote and quite satisfied with it. just looking for best keyboad n mouse for htpc . any recommendation?

hi guys,i want to build a htpc,need some opinion
A
intel core i3 540
asus p7H55

B
amd asus E35m1 fusion

which 1 is better? the price diffrence not really a big gap between these 2.Except choice A use onboard graphic.My main use is to play 1080p movie with hd sound.
please advise
thank you

Y dun u consider for C:
AMD Athlon x3 440 + ASUS M4A78LT-M LE + Sapphire HD 5570 1GB D3 128Bit ?

Almost the same price with i3+ p7H55 but u get alots better performance in BD 1080p movies + 720p games, or may b can unlock to become quad core cpu

oh didn't know i got option c lol.It seems like the best choice.Thank you very much

This post has been edited by potachan: Apr 9 2011, 08:41 AM

If you don't use it for games, the E35m1 fusion fanless design and lower power output with more than enough graphic processing power for HD should be a better option.

Less fan, lesser electrical interference for audio, should you opt to use the onboard digital audio output, or adding audiophile soundcard in future.

Lower power consumption means u can leave the unit on all the time with minimal $ energy spent.

And... lower power consumption means less heat, and able to use a low power output PSU. A good quality PSU such as Be Quiet brand 450W output is more than enough for your HTPC. Less heat generated meaning less fan noisy HTPC.

So overall using the E35m1 enable you to have a quieter HTPC, with less electrical interference and cheaper long term power usage.

Unless you want to play games of course.

read it somewhere about amd fusion,when it play on 1080p movie and u fastforward it will cause it to hang for seconds before it resume.So i guess that fusion wont be my choice.And yeap this htpc will only be use for playing movie not for gaming

just got myself a bdrom...nowe playing with Power DVD 10 not bad... but still can't play one blu ray movie title that i have

so wondering if there's any better players out there that could play commercial blu ray movies easily ... smthing free like VLC perhaps? tried using VLC (not latest vesrion) but cant play

any links would be appreciated

thx guys!

You can't find any free player to play commercial BD as yet.

You will also need software to decode security code before being played with the Power DVD. Example of such software is AnyDVD HD. You will need to purchase it.

that what i thought

thx for info bro

to play that particular movie, i have to gp into the folders and play the movie file .mt2s or smthing with my vlc...lucky it worked... other movies i could just go through the proper menu. But at least there's a work around it ... better than the disc not playable at all.

hope the vlc guys will come out with smthing for bluray drive playback soon

do u update ur bd-rom firmware and powerdvd latest v10.0.2429.51???
or u may try other like windvd pro 2010 or Arcsoft TMT

This post has been edited by jscyl1980: Apr 12 2011, 03:47 PM

hi 2 sifu, how to check whether it using gc hardware acceleration to depress? When i switch my gc into ATI5750, then it woulnd't lag.

i'm not a sifu.
but the rule is, if hardware acceleration is working correctly, your cpu usage while playing a movie should hover around 10-15%. most of the time, less. that is if you don't have any unnecessary items running in the background.

bro u know where is the setting for hardware accelaration for ati card?

i think only starting with 4 series have hardware acceleration. and in my experience the older series tho have hardware acceleration are kindda temperamental. series 5 should work right out of the box with the latest catalyst drivers installed.

hardware acceleration settings are different from program to program. totalmedia theater have a tickbox inside the settings page. mpc-hc have to be turned on manually somewhere buried in the configuration page. if installed by a codec pack like klite then it's presented during the installation pages.

ffdshow have a variant of it but needs to be selected by a codec tweaker, it's not the default. the newer xbmc have it inside the settings page. mediabrowser/media center in default uses microsoft codec which doesn't support hardware acceleration, needs to be disabled and changed to something like ffdshow. coreavc codec have it inside the configuration page.

my card is kinda old ati radeon x1950 pro agp. i cant find anywhere inside the catalyst control panel for hardware acceleration.

when i play 720p mkv with vlc player i saw that my cpu utilization around 50% so i guess it's using cpu power instead of gpu. it's running smooth though. 1080p is out of question can play but very jerky

How about change your player instead of vlc ? I think that will have much better in cpu usage and the smoothness too. Any recommend player here ?

I find SPlayer not bad. I was using CCCP with MPC before this.

http://www.splayer.org/index.en.html

try this...

splash PRO