Andrew Van Til

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I think a large part of the problem is that there aren’t many HTPC cases that really showcase the potential of the platform – I only know of 2 off-hand, and they aren’t drool-worthy. Secondarily, there aren’t as many boards to choose from and the boards that are available can be hard to find.

 

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If your PC can handle it, madVR is worth a try.

The underlying problem might be something included in the codec pack. Sometimes there are filters that force themselves into the graph included.

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Try watching the content in a new version of MPC-HC using only the LAV internal filters.

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See if there’s a setting in the AMD GPU config for file detection or something like that.

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They are both nice, but I prefer the first one’s cleaner face.

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Yeah. Very unfortunate.

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Not really.

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It’s an interesting case for “desktop”, or light server use. Don’t think I’d want to use it as a HTPC though.

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Does your PC list 120Hz as a supported framerate? If it does, you should be able to use any player that supports madVR (MPC-HC, JMC, Meedio, etc.) to playback 24p at 120Hz w/o telecine judder (if it doesn’t enable IVTC automatically, you can force it).

 

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Wow! Thanks for the clarification.

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Looks nice. How’s the build materials quatilty vs. the Wesena chassis?

Is IR100 RC-6 compatible?

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FWIW, I’d probably buy something newer. AFAIK, they never fixed the driver issues with Colossus.

I reviewed it for Anandtech back in 2011, and Aaron reviewed it for Missing Remote.

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Do you know why they design cases like this that support mATX (does the market research support it)? You can’t get the full value out of mATX in a chassis like this, and there are intrinsic compromises for designing for both board sizes that ITX users must now live with.

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Is that just ITX (read-good)? I like the look of it, full-size PCIe option (would be a good place to put a Ceton ITV PCIe; heat would rise straight out of the case), potential for dual width dGPU (for those inclined) and the passive HSF. Very clean.

Does it fit a 3.5″ drive?

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If playback is the only goal, an i5 will be overkill and likely a bit less power efficient. On the other hand if you intend to do more with it (game, scan for commercials, etc.) and i5 will be $ well spent.

 

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