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Thanks, people. Not very inspiring... getting a cabinet shipped cross-country will cost a bomb. I'm not that desperate to get that exact cabinet. ;-) Cheers! Umang

Hi, everybody. I'm putting together an HTPC for home use, and based on some recommendations I came across on TE am reasonably sure that the Antec NSK 2480 is the cabinet I'd like to use. I'm based in Gurgaon, so naturally went to Nehru Place to buy it. Unfortunately, after roaming around Nehru...

Hi. Very well written; a lot of research and thought appears to have gone into this guide. I've been doing some thinking re an HTPC for myself, and have a few thoughts to share with the group: 1. Quality of video is significantly impacted by the video card. As has been correctly pointed out...

I think seek is done by the proc, not by the GPU. It's slower... possibly. Haven't really timed it. But if you weigh the benefits of hardware acceleration against a slower seek, I think you'll go with the hardware accleration. ;-) Glad to hear it's working for you, mate... Cheers! usb101

@clown_abhi: Re the questions raised: 1. CPU utilization is not affected between 720p and 1080p - in both, sys utilization is in the 5-7% range (if you're rendering AC3 sound through the processor) and the 0-3% range (if you have a dedicated sound card that offloads sound processing). After...

Hardware Acceleration in Vista x64 Hi, all. For those who have working installations of Vista (x64 is what I'm using, but I'm sure it works equally well in the 32-bit version), I have great news. Hardware acceleration works perfectly with very little effort. You don't need PowerDVD/ WinDVD/...

@AK3D: You're right, of course. One does not need to uninstall all other codecs to get hardware acceleration to work... as long as one has the ability to define the priorities such that the 'preferred' codec is the one that's used. If you see the first few paras of the guide, I've stated clearly...

Hi. Graphedit from the WinXP playback of a 720p stream attached... hope it helps. Cheers! usb101

No need to set up purevideo/ avivo drivers separately? Yes and no. Let's talk PureVideo first - it's integrated into the nVidia driver install, so one doesn't really have a choice. AVIVO... is available as a separate download for ATi. If one were to just install the WDM drivers and not the full...

Will do... give me a couple of days - I'm not in town and will get back to my desktop by Sunday. Cheers!

Hi. If the system is playing HD, there's some H.264 codec left that didn't get uninstalled... the fact that CoreAVC does not help your CPU utilization means that the other codec still in there is taking precedence and CoreAVC is doing nothing more than a vague twiddling of the thumbs with an...

Hi, people. Thanks for the encouragement. 200mph - thanks for the collection; the only reason there was no mention was that the article was on this slightly different subject which we've been researching for the past couple of days. @broar94 - absolutely correct, no real need to uninstall...

Hardware acceleration of H.264 streams in MKV containers With the arrival of nVidia G92 architectures (8400/ 8500/ 8600/ 9xxx models, to name a few of the most popular cards), a lot of us became aware that cheap hardware acceleration of HD streams was now feasible. Some of us (which included me...