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General Discussion Area / Re: Recommendations for MCE....and questions...

« on: 07 October 2007, 22:39:47 »

I have a Nova-T (single) tuner card and it works very well as a DVB tuner.

Kevin

Yes, and works very well in MCE - if you have enough PCI slots (and 5vsb power!).

The Nova 500 DT dual tuner (2 usb tuners and a USB bridge on a PCI card) is too problematic coming out of standby.


I currently have 2 Nova 500 DTs and a Nova T (5 tuners in total) in my MCE - please note, MCE cannot automatically set up more than 2 tuners.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Recommendations for MCE....and questions...

« on: 07 October 2007, 22:14:20 »

hauppage tv cards are really good. I think their new one is a dual freeview digital .

Matt

Except its bloody useless for MCE. Its USB based, and Windows, S3 standby, and USB is a poor combination.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Recommendations for MCE....and questions...

« on: 07 October 2007, 21:50:01 »

S3, may also be called STR.

Forget the s-video (yellow) input.  Do you have a spare SCART that supports RGB and an ATI VGA card?

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General Discussion Area / Re: Recommendations for MCE....and questions...

« on: 07 October 2007, 20:16:07 »

Few things TD...  ...as you know I am an MCE fan.

Stick to XP MCE for now, Vista home premium needs massive resources to run the MCE part.

What TV have you got? Do not use S-Video - this will (within the card's hardware layer) resize to 640x480, whatever your resolution is. Use VGA or DVI if possible, If you can't, let me know, there is another solution, but its not pretty, and a PITA.

If you are planning on using S3 standby, build the OS with S3 enabled in BIOS - not starightforward to rejig after (HAL change).

If you are using S3, ensure your mobo can wake from USB (ie the remote).

If you are using S3, avoid USB based TV cards (that includes many PCI ones, such as Hauppauge Nova T 500 Dual tuner which is 2 usb tuners connected to a USB hub all on a single PCI card). Windows/S3/USB is always touchy.

Do not install loads of software, particularly codec packs, as MCE doesn't like it.  The only codec you need is ffdshow.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Got one!

« on: 07 October 2007, 20:02:15 »

Sounds like a nice motor

As others have said, take it easy in the wet/ice - I'm guessing at your age (do I sound like grandad!) you have little experience of RWD, which can snap out very quickly

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General Discussion Area / Re: Auto gearbox thrust washer -is this the end?!

« on: 07 October 2007, 12:06:40 »

Its easy enough to change thrust washer once box is off. Just lift off bellhousing, and there it is...

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General Discussion Area / Re: Evening All..Laptop Advice required

« on: 07 October 2007, 20:40:05 »

any replacement keyboards on ebay?

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General Discussion Area / Re: Thanks AA

« on: 03 October 2007, 20:43:30 »

Silver

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General Discussion Area / Re: Work completed today

« on: 07 October 2007, 19:56:37 »

I tend to use those plier type filter tools - quick, easy, and ideal for V6 canister types, and diesel fuel filters....

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General Discussion Area / Re: Work completed today

« on: 05 October 2007, 22:42:06 »

Cracking job, glad it went well with no hitches

We all started somewhere, so an oil change and coolant change is an achievement

Nobody on this forum will laugh at you for having a go, and if something goes wrong, there is lots of help.  Plus Mrs Jimbob has a permenent communication channel with the DTM household

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General Discussion Area / Re: funny web addresses

« on: 07 October 2007, 19:57:18 »

These websites actually exist!

1. A site called ‘Who Represents’ where you can find the name of the agent that represents a celebrity. Their domain name is:  
http://www.whorepresents.com

2. Looking for a pen? Look no further than:  
http://www.penisland.net

3. Experts Exchange’, a knowledge base where programmers can exchange advice and views at:  
http://www.experts-exchange.com
 

the hyphen was missing from the bottom one!

The URL doesn't then have same ring to it

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General Discussion Area / Re: Boot fair blues

« on: 07 October 2007, 12:28:25 »

made me laugh as well....

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General Discussion Area / Re: Its a good night from me....

« on: 07 October 2007, 12:10:40 »

Morning Mark,

Glade you got home safely.

Jet turned around on time, panasonic, well they were still trying to sort that problem out.

I apologise for the name tag, MARK, OOF, forgot the rest you see.

Look forward to meeting yourself and others soon.

The boy next. :-?

I suspect I know the fault......I was watching the system re-boot on one of the screens and noting the Linux (red hat) logs as it went. It was showing corruptions in Flash (I cant beleave they used something as un-reliable as flash for storage!) which is something I know a bit about so I suspect it needs a full re-build!

I confirm that Mark_DTM is an expert in solid state flash. Shame he couldn't fix mine though

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General Discussion Area / Re: Its a good night from me....

« on: 06 October 2007, 09:45:15 »

Welcome back M_DTM, not that you were ever away from our little corner of cyberspace, what with broadband in the room etc.

Sounds like an interesting trip to see the different culture.  Reminds me a little of my trip to Egypt a couple of years back, only more extreme...

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General Discussion Area / Re: Its a good night from me....

« on: 04 October 2007, 22:09:35 »

Got your new c/card then mark, enjoy it to the full and charge it to the company.

No....had to pay for the hotel on my debit car....and its 210 quid a night!

Blimey, £210 per night in Bombay? Where are you staying, in the presidential suite?  

Its a club queen club room, all they had left....

Its got a queen size bed and Tv in the bedroom, marble bath, shower, lounge area with TV, 3 piece suite and desk plus a patio (I am on the 4 th floor and its still 5m x 5m!) and very starngely.......a telephone by the toilet....which they advertise as a sales feature...I know its India but thats just ridiculous!

LOL, after a bout of Gandhi's revenge, that phone will be useful....