- #MEDIACENTER PC CASE HOW TO#
- #MEDIACENTER PC CASE MOVIE#
- #MEDIACENTER PC CASE 720P#
- #MEDIACENTER PC CASE 1080P#
#MEDIACENTER PC CASE 1080P#
This little box is remarkably efficient even when playing back a 1080p video it's not unusual to see CPU usage well under 50%, which equates to around 30-35 watts in practice. To be fair, it's more like 25 watts idle with torrents in the background. I know I get way too excited about this stuff, but … holy crap, 22 tesla-lovin' watts at idle! My results? I'll just get right to the good part, but please bear in mind each step is about twice as powerful as the one before: Just assemble it, install your OS of choice (sorry, Apple fans), then plug it into your receiver and television and boot it up. It's delightfully simple to build and downright cheap. The magical part here is the extreme level of hardware integration: the CPU has a GPU and memory controller on die, and the motherboard has optical digital out and HDMI out built in. You also might want to add a Blu-Ray drive, and perhaps a Windows 7 Home Premium license ($99) for its excellent 10-foot Windows Media Center interface. I'm including the fuller part list as courtesy recommendations in case you're starting from scratch.
I didn't actually buy a case, PSU, or even hard drive for that matter I recycled many of my old existing parts, so my personal outlay was all of 300 bucks. This is just the basic level of hardware to get a functional home theater PC. Combine that with a decent Mini-ITX motherboard and a few other essential parts, and you're good to go: The low power Core i3-2100T is the one I had my eye on, with a miserly TDP of 35 watts. Now that Intel has finally released their Sandy Bridge CPUs - the first with integrated GPUs - I was eager to revisit and rebuild. (Megamind is hilarious and highly recommended, by the way it's far better than its Metacritic and Rotten Tomatoes percentages would seem to indicate.)
#MEDIACENTER PC CASE 720P#
When I recently had to transcode Megamind down to 720p to get it to play back without stuttering or pausing at times… I knew my current HTPC's days were numbered. Only the finest in children's entertainment for my spawned process, I say! And when you have a toddler in the house, believe me, you need reliable 1080p playback. My old low-power Athlon X2 based HTPC generally worked great, but still struggled with some occasional 1080p content. I only want one PC in my house on all the time, and I want it to be as efficient and versatile as possible. As I get older, I find that I'm no longer interested in having a home full of PCs whirring away. I adore that little machine it drives all of our family entertainment and serves as a general purpose home media server and streaming box. JVC DLA-NX7 projector, connected through Marantz AV8802 preamp with all playback devices connected directly to preamp.It's been almost three years since I built my home theater PC. I'd certainly appreciate it if anyone had either a similar setup that works, or suggestions on things to try? Thank you!
#MEDIACENTER PC CASE HOW TO#
I know that AppleTV has a lot of issues with playback right now, but at this point I'm a bit stumped since I've tried a variety of devices and playback clients and can't seem to figure out how to get this to work. Projector is set to framerate match, and the playback apps are set to send original framerate. I also tried playing the file using Kodi on the Shield - same issue. Same issue (file wouldn't even play on AppleTV unless I enabled their new video/audio player - with old, screen just went blank and projector fans spun up and whined until I backed out). So, to try and diagnose further I tried playing it on a 1st generation NVIDIA Shield and a current model AppleTV, both using Plex. I verified that this doesn't happen if I play the file in VLC on a recent M2 Macintosh.
#MEDIACENTER PC CASE MOVIE#
movie continues playing, image reconstitutes, but it's certainly annoying. Basic symptom is when I try to playback a 2160p DD+5.1 Atmos DolbyVision + HDR movie I get what I'd describe as a weird macroblocking "flash" every few seconds. Hi folks, I'm having some odd issues playing movies on my basement theater on my NX7 and trying to narrow down where the problem might be.
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