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nuttall_chris
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ecrabb
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nuttall_chris
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Yes I have 7.1 audio over HDMI.
Chris.
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ecrabb
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Cool!
Are you using PowerDVD, then? Does the audio bitstream or is it uncompressed at the computer/sending PCM?
Oh, and what are you using for a remote?
Not crazy about going back to HTPC, but I'm getting the itch to try 1080p/48 or 1080i/96... or something.
Thanks! Sorry for all the questions!
SC
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nuttall_chris
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| ecrabb wrote: | Cool!
Are you using PowerDVD, then? Does the audio bitstream or is it uncompressed at the computer/sending PCM?
Oh, and what are you using for a remote?
Not crazy about going back to HTPC, but I'm getting the itch to try 1080p/48 or 1080i/96... or something.
Thanks! Sorry for all the questions!
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I use PowerDVD , it uncompresses at the computer and sends out LPCM. For a remote I use a Pronto TSU-501 http://www.curtpalme.com/TSU501.shtm
I'm also not crazy about using the HTPC but it does what I want without to much difficulty. Ideally I would be streaming from my media server to my PS3 but the PS3 can't handle streaming VC1. As around 40% of BD content is encoded with VC1 this is a major problem.
Chris.
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ecrabb
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Thanks for all the info. OK, one last question and I'll shut it. I really didn't mean to crap in this thread...
What's the bridge from Pronto to PowerDVD, then? Serial IR dongle and girder?
Sorry, I've kind of been out of the HTPC groove for quite awhile.
Thanks!
SC
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nuttall_chris
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| ecrabb wrote: | Thanks for all the info. OK, one last question and I'll shut it. I really didn't mean to crap in this thread...
What's the bridge from Pronto to PowerDVD, then? Serial IR dongle and girder?
Sorry, I've kind of been out of the HTPC groove for quite awhile.
Thanks!
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I use a USB IR dongle that came with a Hauppage PVR150 that I'm not using anymore. The IR codes I captured from my xbox360 media center IR remote.
PM me if you have any other questions. 
Chris.
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benareeno
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I think my brother is streaming VC1...he has a computer app that converts on the fly...you familiar with it?
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ecrabb
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TVersity does on-the-fly real-time transcoding to stream to connected UPnP DLNA clients, but I don't know if it would handle 1080p/24 VC1 or not. You'd probably need a pretty damn healthy machine if it does.
http://tversity.com
Anybody tried it?
SC
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benareeno
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I'll see what he's using...but he definitely needed gigabit ethernet to do it. His machine is a core2duo....and it works ok. I think he has a Coldplay concert in VC-1...works great.
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nuttall_chris
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Unless you have a super computer doing the transcoding there is no way to do this in real time. I had a Quad Core Extreme in one of my computers and it still took ~15 hours to convert a VC1 stream to an H264 stream at 1080P.
If anyone has a program that can do this more efficiently I'll try it but I have my doubts that this can be done in real time with current home computers. The only way I can see this as being possible would be with a hardware decoder/encoder...maybe this could be offloaded to the video card???
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fuzzybee
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| nuttall_chris wrote: | Yes I have 7.1 audio over HDMI.
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Interesting. How does the audio transfer to the video card? Over the PCI/PCIe bus?
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nuttall_chris
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| fuzzybee wrote: | | nuttall_chris wrote: | Yes I have 7.1 audio over HDMI.
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Interesting. How does the audio transfer to the video card? Over the PCI/PCIe bus? |
Correct.
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fuzzybee
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Interesting. What sound card did you pair this with?
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nuttall_chris
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| fuzzybee wrote: | | Interesting. What sound card did you pair this with? |
You don't use a sound card in this application, you install HDMI audio drivers that work with the video card.
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ecrabb
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Yeah, the video card IS the sound card in this case.
Even with a traditional sound card... it's a bit of a misnomer if you're talking about using a sound card the way most of us did/do to output AC-3, DTS or PCM via SPDIF... In that application, it's more of a PCI-SPDIF interface, just like you'd have a PCI-USB interface or a PCI-IEEE1394 interface. The device drivers are still going to call it an "audio device", but it really is just an "interface"... to move bits from the computer to an external device.
In the case of some of the HDMI video cards, you just have that audio interface on the same card with the graphics engine/display adapter, and it all comes out the same cable (HDMI).
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fuzzybee
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Very interesting.
I guess my next thought is when is this going to get Linux-capable drivers? Or perhapd my next thought is when am I going to be able to play native 7.1 HD audio content on Linux at all?
I may be looking more at the MythTV Windows port (if it ever gets close to being complete...)
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