Andrew Van Til

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RB is FOSS, you could add it 🙂

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TBH, there’s not much setup involved. 

1. Install the service on both machines. 
2. Allow the service to communicate through the PC firewall.
3. Add the PCs that you want to broker too by name in the app.
4. Make sure the ports and secret are the same on all the PCs

And if you’re running 7MC (or Fiji) use this version.

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Have you tried plugging it into a different USB port?

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I agree w/ Michael on the 650; relegated mine to the closet of old tech a long time ago.

Definitely update us when you get the parts back.  My experience with SNB has been great, as a HTPC and as real PC (it’s crazy fast compiling code :)).

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Have you tried an EDID override?

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Forgot to post this up last night, the devices should look like this.

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In theory at least. I wouldn’t be surprised though if there are older decoders that choke on an MVC stream and thus this is why some newer 3D BDs are apparently 3D only.

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Thought I threw enough caveats/qualifiers in there 🙂 I’d guess that that decision was more marketing based.

Too bad the pool isn’t statistically significant yet, so we’ll have to wait to call this one.

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MVC is supposed to be backwards compatible, so most 3D BD should also play in 2D.  The player will decode and present one eye’s worth of data.

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I don’t have access to the PC right now to see which driver to assign, but I remember having to browse->have disk->browse for the files then force it for each device.

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I’m not aware of any AVR that will do a digital-to-analog conversion most likely due to HDCP restrictions.  Bypassing the AVR for video from each device is probably the best option, but if the TV has fewer component inputs an HDFury would be a potential solution.

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I use a pace box, it’s just a little more involved.

Grab these drivers and then “have disk” to force the Pace driver to install.

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Thanks.  That’s kind of what I figured.  While I’m at it, I was thinking of getting a card that can bitstream the audio, which the 4xx cards can do, right?  Do any of the ATI cards support 3D and bitstreaming as well?

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AMD’s 4xxx card can bit stream lossy formats only, you will need a 5xxx card to support lossless bit streaming.

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Can’t explain that one 🙂

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That’s a problem with the MPC-HC Audio Renderer (regsvr32 /u it).  Does it still not work with the Default Audio Renderer?

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Open an elevated cmd prompt and regsvr32 MatroskaSplitter.ax, you should be able to use it in GraphStudio afterward.

DirectShow is a COM based framework so objects and interfaces can be globally registered (what regsvr32 does) or just available to a specific exe.  As a project, MPC-HC is structured so that each filter can be used either way.  The default, [I imagine] because it’s much easier to deploy, is to include each filter in the compiled binary so the standalone filters need to be registered separately to be used in other applications.

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