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Jester · Joined: 27 Jan 2008 Posts: 90 Location: Villa Park Ilinois

Hi,

I was wondering if this will play BD/HD from HDD?

AMD x2 dual core 3700
2 gigs ram
nvidia 7800 gs oc
100s of gigs of 7200 rpm drives
VGA or DVI?
Sony 1272
HD Fury (if it matters)
1271 switcher (if it matters)

What software seems to work best ?

What resolutions seem to work best ?

Any other thoughts or suggestions?

I have read a TON of stuff about HTPC but cant seems to get a place to start. So I figured that if the hardware should work its alot easier to troubleshoot from there.

Thanks

Jester

Scott

Zebu Fellenz · Joined: 21 Dec 2006 Posts: 2567

Do you have a Blu-ray drive for the PC? If so I would just try it and see how it works, my guess is it will be borderline but may work fine.

For playing Blu-rays from the HDD I use anydvdHD to make a backup ISO file that I mount with daemon tools and play with Powerdvd Ultra 7.3

Analog output works fine as does DVI as long as the video card and display are HDCP complient, if they are not anydvdHD will take care of this for you.

For a 1272 1080i

Mark_A_W · Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2009 1:48 am Post subject:

I don't think it will work.

Maybe with overclocking, or a HD video accelerating video card.

Chuchuf · Joined: 11 Mar 2006 Posts: 548

As Mark suggests you are going to be pretty close on the processor. I run an X2 4400+ without issue for BluRay HD DVD playback but I am also running a pretty good video card (8800GT) with hardware acceleration. I have run this setup first under XP and now Vista. I'm considering transitioning to Win7 because of the less resources it takes.
I don't have a lot of experience with the 7800GT but I assume it has hardware acceleration? and HDCP? I think it would work fine.
You should be able to change out the processor pretty inexpensively to something greater than a 4200+ should yours not work, especially if you are AM1 and not a 939.
So if I were you, I would try it with XP to keep the overhead down and if you find you need more processor, upgrade the processor.

Terry

Mark_A_W · Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2009 8:08 pm Post subject:

Only MPEG2 accel on a 7800GT.

benareeno · Joined: 22 Mar 2006 Posts: 1614 Location: ottawa, canada

get an ATI HD3450...and you'll be fine...with HDMI audio ouptut to boot!

Jester · Joined: 27 Jan 2008 Posts: 90 Location: Villa Park Ilinois

Thanks for all the great advice, I downloaded a sample 1080p mkv to test it out and its weird, it stutters real bad on this pc BUT one of the others i have with built in video and a 4200 runs it just fine, now I dont have sound on that one cuz its a server, so we will see. Ill post back once I get it up and running

Any suggestions for the setting of the video for 1080i on a 1272?

Thanks

jester

Scott

**AnalogRocks** · Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2009 5:48 am Post subject:

jask · Joined: 17 Mar 2006 Posts: 10187 Location: kamloops BC

try downloading the Cyberlink BD/HD advisor, this program audits your system and tells you if it will be able to handle BD playback. If you use AnyDVD make sure you have it running as it will prevent non-hdcp compliant components from failing.

http://www.free-codecs.com/download/CyberLink_BD_HD_Advisor.htm

I used a similar system with an Asus 1600Pro/512 and it would not run smoothly, my guess is that you will not be able to make it work (sorry)

**AnalogRocks** · Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2009 6:41 am Post subject:

Grab an ATi video card with hardware acceleration.

Jester · Joined: 27 Jan 2008 Posts: 90 Location: Villa Park Ilinois

yes the ATI is like 60 bucks, kinda silly not to do that Smile

Jester

Scott

**AnalogRocks** · Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2009 9:52 pm Post subject:

I split the thread since we started talking about ATi and 7.1 audio over HDMI. The new thread's here:

https://www.curtpalme.com/forum_archived/viewtopic.php@t=14697.html

Carry on.