Hello All, long time no update! Ok, so have gone thru a fairly big update with the HTPC. I scrapped the USB DVBS2 tuner, all sorts of issues with it not coming out of sleep... so, I bought more internal tuners, heres what I have now:
2 * Hauppauge 229 WinTV NOVA-HD-S2
1 * Hauppauge 1342 WinTV-HVR-4400 TV Tuner PCIe
So, at the moment I have 5 tuners, 4 dedicated to $ky sub & FreeSat, 3 of which can handle the HD channels, the 4th tuner is from the dreambox, so a extra tuner for all freesat and SD $ly sub. Not really using the dreambox tuner, but have it connected to the dish 24/7 regardless.
I'm still running cccam CCcam_2.1.2 & newCS1.67, too lazy to update the dreambox as its working ok...however my entitlements are not auto-updating to I have to pop the sky card back into my sky box once every 2 months or so to update the entitlements. cccam 2.1.4 will fix thsi for me if i ever get around to installing it...
I also have a 5th DVBT tuner which is included in the 4400 tuner, so in the process of getting that cabled up so I can get RTE2 HD! better get my act in gear for the world cup...
I have finally sorted out the LCD screen on my Antec case, i was missing one of these:
http://store.antec.com/Product/accessory-spare_parts/24p-3p-power-adapter-extension/0-761345-71017-6.aspx
From the dodgy pic above, you can now see the case is operating as expected. to be honest I done use any of the IR functions as I dont really need them, all control is handled via the microsoft IR kit.
Installed a Blu-Ray drive in there as well, about time I started ripping my Blu-Ray collection. I;m using a combination of AnyDVD HD (to handle the decryption) and DVDFab for ripping. Demuxing to .mkv with full retention of video & audio bit rate quality, just dropping the audio channels I dont need. I've double checked thsi with mediainfo, and the bit rate of the video on the bd disc .m2ts is identical to the .mkv I'm getting from DVDFab demux
DOwngraded gthr graphci card to NVIdia 9500GT which I had in another box, as I was havign fan issues with the 9800GT. This is a temporary fix, as i have ordered a new GPU card which wil allow me to bit-stream HD Audio over HDMI!
XFX ATI Radeon HD 5570 1GB GDDR3 PCI-E Graphics Card
good read here on Bit-stream HD audio:
http://www.missingremote.com/guide/bitstreaming-hdmi-hd-audio-formats-your-htpc
I've also put a good bit of work into figurig otu the codecs, properly, so everything will stream to the xbox extenders via mymovies add-in and DTS (soon HD) audio in main room. I'll keep this for a separate blog post.
