any inside info o whether or not xbox360 will support matroska in upcoming

[craig198]

well I have managed to get the screen pretty good without powerstrip. But I will keep this utility on hand for any future use that may come up. thanks again krbo.

all I did was add more profiles(all of the 1080p ones) under the catalyst control panel and I applied the 1920X1080p 60hz profile. at first it still didnt look right(still off to the left of screen). next time i booted the pc though the screen magically was centered(still black bars on each side) but then I just used the built in scaler and voila! so I dont know what I did to correct the centering of it. but its good now.

[MJA]

You will need a video card that does hardware assist on decoding H.264

You should have went with an AMD 780G motherboard and a middle of the road AMD Athlon 64 X2 processor. For a budget HTPC it can't be beat as the video card chipset built-in the 780G is made to decode H.264 as well as Blu-Ray etc.

The system you put together will struggle without getting a video card.

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

P.S.
Here is an example of what I am talking about:

780G chipset motherboard ---> CLICK HERE
AMD Athlon 64 X2 5400 Black Edition ---> CLICK HERE

I bought the same MB few days ago with AMD Triple core .I'm going to work on it this weekend .can you tell me whats the best/stable driver to install (Windows XP)

[craig198]

im running 8.5 with vista. havent tried 8.8 latest ones. i think you will be very satisfied with this motherboards performance. well I have the foxconn 780g and its great! you have the gigabyte? wish I had went with the gigabyte for 70 something dollars as it also had the 780g and optical out.

[MJA]

I got the GIGABYTE GA-MA78GPM-DS2H Integrated 128MB DDR3 SidePort Memory for $104.

Vista sucks a lot of memory .you need a minimum of 2GB to avoid any hiccups

[craig198]

ya I got 2 gb of memory and vista sp1 does do pretty well at pushing out unneeded applications when more memory is needed. vista always try's to keep your memory used for quicker performance. anticipate your next move so to speak.

[MJA]

I just got done putting the system together.I'm testing Vista right now .so far so good except I can't adjust my dell 20'' monitor (Dell 2005FPW) thin black bar on top.I tried the manual settings on the monitor but that didn't work

any ideas on how to adjust the monitor .I'm using driver 8.8

[craig198]

hmm not sure man. I just keep playing with settings until i get it close. my problem was the scale on the 50" plasma. and at first it was not centered. but for some reason on next bootup(after resolution of 1080p and 60hz) it centers fine. and was easy to scale with the radeon control panel. that was my only problem.

[MJA]

what do you use for audio ? I tested the new system on my 37" Westinghouse LCD TV using HDMI .the picture looks good but no sound.I been playing with the settings for the last hour so far nothing.

[FulciLives]

what do you use for audio ? I tested the new system on my 37" Westinghouse LCD TV using HDMI .the picture looks good but no sound.I been playing with the settings for the last hour so far nothing.

The motherboard you are using ... the GIGABYTE GA-MA78GPM-DS2H ... has an Optical S/PDIF output. Have you tried that yet? One of the reasons why I suggested that motherboard was due to the fact that it has such an output!

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

[MJA]

nope.I didn't try Optical S/PDIF and I don't have one. any reason why the audio doesn't pass the HDMI?

I updated the ATI HDMI Audio Device to version R2.03 .no help

[MJA]

UPDATE.

I found the solution .under the BIOS I changed the setting from VGA-DVI (default) to VGA- HDMI .audio works fine now.

Thanx for the help guys

[craig198]

ive found that the hdmi audio slows down the hd picture. can you confirm this with I high bitrate 1080p movie? i think my creative card offloads the processing.