dreamliner77
The Analog Kid
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Yeah, what Lord said.
Switched it to system managed. Not sure if the extra ram helped. I mean it is slow pc2700 ram lol.Yeah, what Lord said.
I shouldn't understand why that would be the case...you need a quad core to play 1080p.
Um... no?Stop trying to cut corners
Pickup an AMD Phenom II X4 plug in 4-8gb ram and get a radeon 6850 and you'll be golden. The investment will be worth it if you intend to make a full time HTPC out of it.
Um... no?
I've already got my good pc (not that it works with the graphics cards), its working fine with the onboard graphics mind you. The Media PC is fine, and with 2gb of real good pc3200 ram I think it will be fine. I know the cpu can handle 1080p video, and I know the gpu can as well. Before this was a media pc it was my pc, of course, I sold off my pc3200 ram when i built my real computer because you make a good amount of money for it on ebay, I didn't know I was gonna build a media pc at the time, because my dv9000z laptop was working fine (which is what we used).
18. Which video formats can Boxee play?
Boxee supports Adobe Flash 10.1, FLV/On2 VP6 (FLV/FV4/M4V), H.264 AVC (TS/AVI/MKV/MOV/M2TS/MP4), VC-1 (TS/AVI/MKV/WMV), MPEG-1 (DAT/MPG/MPEG), MPEG-2 (MPG/MPEG/VOB/TS/TP/ISO/IFO), MPEG-4 (MP4/AVI/MOV), DivX 3/4/5/6 (AVI/MKV), Xvid (AVI/MKV), and WMV9 (WMV/ASF/DVR-MS).
19. Which audio formats can Boxee play?
Boxee supports MP3, WAV/PCM/LPCM, WMA, AIF/AIFF, AC3/AAC, OGG, FLAC, DTS, and Dolby Digital/Dolby True HD
Can it support an external HDD through those USB ports?I have a boxee box and it does all my media stuff fine. (much cheaper then building a crazy quad-core system to watch TV/Movies.
Source: FAQ
Can it support an external HDD through those USB ports?
We run our stuff off a 640gb portable HDD
boxee boxes are dual core with hardware decode equivalent to radeon 4000 series. I'm under the impression the software is gpl'ed so you could just install it on your current machine and see what happens.
So you're either going the hardware decode route ($100+ on a video card with hardware mpeg2, h264, vc1 decode) or you're going quad-core and you'll want something equivalent to a core 2 quad, just don't expect smooth playback of 1080p, flac audio and animated sub titles.
I still don't see why you are resistant to my advice on what to get to build a media player pc that will play whatever you want, whenever you want without issue.
I'd want to use the Boxee Box, but its so friggin' expensive (not by comparison however)Yeah you could try boxee software here: Boxee - Make a Boxee
Dang. I was afraid of that. I don't really wanna spend a hundred+ bucks on a phenom II X4, the athlon II was such a sweet price. lolYou could try it, though it'd probably struggle. You could transcode the video to mpeg 2 however and get hardware decode from the 7900gt.
Your best bet would be to find a phenom ii x4 that works in your mainboard
At which poing mpc-hc, madvr, slysoft reclock will give you near butter smooth playback of everything