My HTPC build with pics.....

I use XBMC and edited a config file to launch all my movies with an external player: MPC Home Cinema, which uses the coreavc codec. The result is my 1.6ghz atom netbook (Samsung N110) can play 720p files perfectly :D. I tried getting the internal player to use coreavc but couldn't manage it so this was the cop out method, which still works just you get a brief second where it switches from XBMC to MPC.
 
rodo said:
spent the day setting up media browser and renaming half my media to correct names to pull metadata. Seems pretty slick, don't think I'll be using anything else from now.
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You can get software that automatically renames stuff to the correct format.
 
This system should definitely not be struggling with 1080p video. My old HTPC ran on an an overclocked Athlon XP2600+ and it ran XBMC - 720p vidoes were flawless but 1080p would stutter occasionally.

Remember that the Intel IGP can't run at 23.976fps natively so you will see stutter when playing blu rays as the video needs to sync the frames.

As for the frontend - I've only ever used XMBC so can't comment, but it may be worth getting a dedicated HTPC graphics card like the Radeon HD5450 that will handle 23.976 much better.
 
shadow_boxer said:
This system should definitely not be struggling with 1080p video. My old HTPC ran on an an overclocked Athlon XP2600+ and it ran XBMC - 720p vidoes were flawless but 1080p would stutter occasionally.

Remember that the Intel IGP can't run at 23.976fps natively so you will see stutter when playing blu rays as the video needs to sync the frames.

As for the frontend - I've only ever used XMBC so can't comment, but it may be worth getting a dedicated HTPC graphics card like the Radeon HD5450 that will handle 23.976 much better.
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Exactly what ive done mate. Should be delivered tomorrow so fingers crossed it does the trick :)
 
Ati Radeon 5450 fitted!!

Xbmc now works perfectly playing all files at 1080p. CPU now sits at 15 - 20% or 5% with dxva enabled although I was still getting some green bits with this on so left it off.

Have played several films on it this morning just to fully test it out and all working as it should :-)
 
Glad it's sorted. Slightly off topic, but it appears in your third picture of the build you've got the RAM in different coloured slots, which would suggest that the RAM won't be running as dual channel, but as two single channel sticks. It's not a biggie, but worth mentioning.
 
Thanks Marvin,

I read up about pc building before starting on this and expected to use the first and third slot.

However the motherboard manual shows that each slot is numbered 1,2,3,4 in order. I did double check this to make sure it was correct.

Memory shows 4gb in the system although I did start a thread a few weeks ago as it always shows my memory at 30% on the windows gadget even when I'm not doing anything??
 
The motherboard manual shows the memory slot numbers as 2,1,4,3 moving away from the cpu socket. (blue, white, blue, white)

You should have the memory in 1 and 3 for dual channel mode (the two white slots). This is probably one of the causes of your performance issue.
 
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