Launching TMT3 using the default MCE Media Library is ok but when using Media Browser, it will not launch the TMT3 and it will give 'Unsupported file format'...

Nvidia bitstream HD audio? Sound great

Have you tried config the media browser (newer version is available now it seems) to use external player for bluray format?

very interesting discussion here.

im want to set up new htpc, but wondering the power cosumption.. currently using hd media player which i think use 65w power adapter and im very happy with my electricity bill.

if my future htpc setup use i3, 1 harddisk, bd drive, 1 pci card and no gc.. what would be the ideal power?

thanks!

idle i think below 25w, not sure when watching HD movies though...

hemmm.. that's low!

anyway now thinking to get pre-built htpc by asrock. seems very interesting...

i found this, pricelist for asrock core and ion from imbi shop. but no price?? asrock core 100ht-bd look very promising.
http://benchmarkreviews.com/index.php?opti...d=543&Itemid=69

bumped into this while doing research on htpc.

HQV Benchmark 2.0 Analysis Comparison between Intel integrated vs ATI vs Nvidia GPUs.

great read, and really great work from the author - Zardon.

http://www.kitguru.net/components/graphic-...a-and-intel/43/

Good stuff, I will add this to the front page...

Thanks

Seems ATI is the winner

for an article written in june. lots of things could change in 4 month

correct, lots of things could change. also in 4 months, the price would have settled down and we have all sorts of choices from the gpu's vendor

Guys with 5 series ATI card,

which driver revision are you all using now? i had issues with 10.8 now using 10.9 - scaling probs solved. but i can see color banding.

btw am using 5770.

i'm still using 10.6. no problem whatsoever for me. already downloaded the 10.9, but lazy to fix something that's not broken haha
got some free time tomorrow. maybe i'll try the 10.9 to see if i have any color banding.

and p/s: i've never had any issues with scaling issues using either the VGA port, DVI port nor the HDMI

Yup.. nothing important feature in 10.9 unless you playing game The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena or S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat in ATI 5870, 5770 and 5970.

Hi Paskal, to be precise, it's more like the ati app will reset the scaling bck to the old setting or something like that upon resetting or restarting your pc. to recall back the setting, just need to launch the program, which to me is a hassle.

it's a known issue in 10.8. if you do a google about scaling resetting, ther's quite a few of them complaining. but funny thing is, it doesnt effect some ppl as i've noticed. i started using 10.8 and hav no clue if 10.6 have issues or not.

Just would like to know if there's any improvement in comparison to the older drivers, in terms of movie PQ. if there's improvement why wanna stick to the old drivers right since it's free. but if the older ones like the 10.6 have vast improvements albeit an older driver, i will not hesitate to remove and re-install the older driver.

cheers!

no i didn't get the rescaling issue with 10.6. though i never need to use the scaling anymore after setting the display to 'just fit' instead of the widescreen '16:9' ratio. fonts (and pictures) looks sharper with just fit.

probably 10.6 doesnt have this issue.
cant use just fit. using a plasma. function to help reduce burn in/retention will be disabled.

any one here use hd5450 at htpc setup?

mosquito noise reduction and deblocking cant show up at advance quality setting.

btw, using win7 x86 hdmi to lcd tv.

thanks.

hi Pap,

which revision driver are you using? based on the useful article posted by LightAstral, seems like 10.6 and above only have those functions.