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Yeah, I definitely wouldn't move a box full of hard drives into the living room.

I actually threw a new aerial up on the roof a couple of weekends ago, which was when I installed the tuner card. There were 3 aerials already on the roof, but none seemed to work!

Less than £30 for an aerial and 50m of cable from Screwfix, and I've run the cable around the house and into the cellar where the server is. The GF only got Virgin when she moved in because none of the aerials seemed to work - now we've got TV wherever we can put a computer or laptop - so might well end up cancelling the Virgin TV package (we've only got the base package anyway)
 
badgering about with XBMC more or less happy, but where do people get there backgrounds and dvd/blu ray box images? they dont seem consistant in quality and size which annoys my OCD and I
 
Pro-tip here, if on windows and you want to use a live tv backend that has 1-2 second channel change instead of the terrible speed for native windows backends,install Linux in a vm in windows and run tvheadend from that.I got best results from VMware workstation 9, but you can use virtualbox.

Also a certain chain of stores that you can 'map' all over the country sells a dual tuner for £29' buy 3 of them and you can watch and record every freeview channel at the sametime.(1 mux for each tuner,5 muxes in total for all sd freeview channels, with only 1 tuner you can only watch or record multiple channels on the same mux.)
 
Confused said:
Yeah, I definitely wouldn't move a box full of hard drives into the living room.
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http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18269719

This mod will make a huge difference. My HTPC has three hard drives and the vibrations were a distraction during quieter moments in videos, so I suspended them with bungee cord. I now can't hear them running and the spinning up noises are only audible if the room is silent.

Combine this with a quiet PSU and CPU cooler, plus a passively cooled GPU, and there shouldn't be any problems keeping it in the living room (aside from visitors asking what the hell the big black box does).
 
Metallifux said:
There are some known issues, might be better to detail what problem you are having.
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I managed to fix the issue, I was getting video lag. Frame rate was around one frame every three seconds. Just incase anyone has the same problem. I enabled smooth video on the ati settings and disabled DXVA2 in XBMC. Also changed the sound settings WASAPI. Only got this issue when updating to Frodo 12.1
 
In fact - you resolved it purely by changing the sound settings.

This comes up about 20 times per day on the official XBMC forum - mainly because the sticky in the Windows section isn't named appropriately (it's named "How to diagnose audio issues in Frodo", and not "Playback stuttering at ~1fps - look here") - people don't think they've got an audio problem, they think they've got a video problem.

This is usually because the settings set in XBMC say to XBMC that your audio receiver/TV supports various audio formats, and when it tries to play back those files, the receiver/TV can't decode it, so causes the stuttering.
 
It was also the smooth video playback. I tried the sound first after seeing the issues mentioned on XBMC forums. After changing the sound settings it fixed the stutter on some videos depending on their sound format but it wasn't until I changed the smoothed video option in the ATI settings then it fixed the issue on all files.
 
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Just added another device to my collection.

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@andy_mk3, if you make a copy of your XBMC folder in the AppData folder, you can always go back to your existing installation.
 
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