Quote:You misunderstood my post. I'm saying that HDCP is enabled/disabled automatically by the device based on the content or output mode.
1.Do HD channels simply not work or do they only work when you lower the output resolution in the STB settings?
2.As I suspected the video decoding isn't eating up much resources. What is "pc usage" by the way?
3.I suspect that this might be an issue with MPC (media player classic) displaying the 30p stream from your channels at 30 Hz by changing the display driver refresh rate mode. Which could be negatively effecting your games while it's running.
Try using VLC instead and tell me if that fixed it.
4.If we can't get this fixed you might need to see if your provider supports ceton cable cards. They're very expensive but they will allow your PC to capture and record encrypted cable channels directly (and up to 4 channels simultaneously). You certainly have the money.
1. I have never had HD, from any input source to play back from it:
I ran some tests just now, using the Card's own capture software program: I went thru every combination of settings on the Capture card's control panel and tested using these sources:
•I have been running component to the capture card all along for watching SD tv. (this mode works), if I switch to an HD channel I lose signal and sound.
•I connected my Xbox360 via component with out audio, no signal.
•I connected my Dad's apple TV thingy, via HDMI, no signal.
*I got the capture card on ebay "for a song" used, about 2-3 years ago, the own claimed it was lightly used and in good order. Since I've owned it I have never been able to get any form of HD signal to play thru it, maybe he ripped me off and sold me a faulty card, I really dont know
2. I can check this later, I'm not near the PC as I'm writing this, but when I checked yesterday it seemed to be around 7-20% total at idle(background programs like utorrent, steam, teamspeak, firefox)
3.After performing the tests in "1." using the cards own capture software, do you still think it's worth me testing it in VLC?
4.My cable provider is
http://www.shaw.ca , I did a tiny bit of research and I don't think that it's an option:
https://community.shaw.ca/thread/2463
Quote:As I mentioned earlier, none. The audio chipset has absolutely no effect on the sound quality, features, or connectivity of the a/v receiver.
All modern integrated audio chipsets support optical spdif and hdmi so you'll have no problems connecting the a/v receiver.
And since the a/v receiver will be doing all the processing and the audio chipset will just be doing passthrough the features and quality of the audio chipset won't matter.
Here's the thing why I'm so "gun-shy" about this; with my current "auzentech" (pos) It will do some funny thing randomly.
•One of the more common glitches, is I could be running any single or combination of programs, (youtube via firefox or Skyrim, or Teamspeak, or Media player) and then all of a sudden the sound will cut out, followed by a second of silence, the extremely loud staticy sounds for about 2 seconds, then no sound at all until I 1. turn dolby off and then back on, or 2. sometimes force me to restart the service all together or 3. sometimes I have to disable the sound devices in the sound control panel then enable it again. In order to get sound back.
This error has been known to happen to me even using headphones alone, and when I use headphones I turn any form of digital output/mixing off in the creative sound panel.
*I have no real proof of this, but I swear I noticed this glitch happening more often when my room was on the warm side, so I rearranged some fans in my case to give it more airflow to the sound card and it seemed to make it the glitch less reoccurring. If it wasnt for that I would of guessed it was drive issue.
•I've been researching the higher end on-board sound chipsets, maybe there is a lot of bias out there, maybe they arn't talking about using A/V units, but a lot of people seem to harsh on all the realtech devices... which is funny cause I often see those same ones praising the "supreme FX" while bashing the "ACL1150" at the same time. One there I hear from people is that they hear a lot popping noises from realtechs.
Quote:Speaking of which what headphones are you going to be using with this thing?
Sennheiser HD 650.
►If you can't tell from our discussions, I am a pretty indecisive person when buying things I'm not an expert on.
Right now I need to put the order thru on the new PSU, I don't want to risk damaging my current hardware with the one I got.
I was pretty darn set on going with the seasonic M12II 850 (SS-850AM), seemed like a graet deal at $70 after rebates(which end tomorrow) on newegg. After doing a bit more digging on it, it sounds like quite a number of owners say it has quite a loud fan. I don't know if that's true for every one tho.
Now I'm not sure which PSU to choose from, like the problem with the PSU market is that there are a lot to pick from and none really seem to stand a head of the rest.
◘ If you or any one else here can point out some good options to pick from (750w+) Please chime in.
◘ Something I thought I might ask; would it be worth using my current 260gtx in the new rig as a "Dedicated PhysX card"? some brife searching seems to say not really, but I thought I'd ask to be on the safe side.
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