Vista and panel resolution
Discussion
Hello all,
I've recently acquired a Vista powered media centre, and I'm struggling with a couple of things (Vista Media Centre isn't the global panacea to glue together the diverse elements I was hoping for).
So, the following things work;
1) Live TV and recording
2) Video file playback (once I'd added AVI codecs to VMC - why do I need to do this)
3) Music playback
4) DVD playback from within VMC
VMC doesn't play BluRay - I have to use an external program for that.
I have currently two major niggles;
1) The hauppauge remote control is plugged into the hauppauge Nova T twin tuner card. It sort of works, but some of the buttons don't appear to be correctly mapped. Can I adjust this somehow?
2) Vista Media Centre runs at 720P@50Hz, which is exactly what I want as an input to the Pioneer screen - the media box does all the scaling and the TV does none at all. However, when I drop out of VMC into the Vista desktop, it refuses to correctly support that resolution, and drops into either 720P @ 60Hz (which doesn't fill the screen correctly) or 1360x780@60Hz, which does fill the screen but leads to 3-4 seconds of blank as the TV works the new resolution out.
The second one is really annoying - it's a modern ATI Gfx card - and can certainly do the res I want, it just appears that VMC knows about the screen better than vista desktop does. At this point I would normally hack the X11.conf file, but this is windows....
Any ideas?
Also, media centre tips and trick gratefully received.
I've recently acquired a Vista powered media centre, and I'm struggling with a couple of things (Vista Media Centre isn't the global panacea to glue together the diverse elements I was hoping for).
So, the following things work;
1) Live TV and recording
2) Video file playback (once I'd added AVI codecs to VMC - why do I need to do this)
3) Music playback
4) DVD playback from within VMC
VMC doesn't play BluRay - I have to use an external program for that.
I have currently two major niggles;
1) The hauppauge remote control is plugged into the hauppauge Nova T twin tuner card. It sort of works, but some of the buttons don't appear to be correctly mapped. Can I adjust this somehow?
2) Vista Media Centre runs at 720P@50Hz, which is exactly what I want as an input to the Pioneer screen - the media box does all the scaling and the TV does none at all. However, when I drop out of VMC into the Vista desktop, it refuses to correctly support that resolution, and drops into either 720P @ 60Hz (which doesn't fill the screen correctly) or 1360x780@60Hz, which does fill the screen but leads to 3-4 seconds of blank as the TV works the new resolution out.
The second one is really annoying - it's a modern ATI Gfx card - and can certainly do the res I want, it just appears that VMC knows about the screen better than vista desktop does. At this point I would normally hack the X11.conf file, but this is windows....
Any ideas?
Also, media centre tips and trick gratefully received.
A really good place to get all these questions, and more, answered is
http://thegreenbutton.com/default.aspx its a website dedicated to all VMC bit and bobs and is very good.
With regards to your scalling issues I have had only problems when using the HDMI cable only, it would only work in 1280x720 and is unreadable. If I use the VGA output then all is fine and runs 1360x768. The screen is 1366x768, as most are. This would obviosuly cause problems when watching ptotected media as the VGA does not support HDCP but I dont do that at the moment.
Peter
http://thegreenbutton.com/default.aspx its a website dedicated to all VMC bit and bobs and is very good.
With regards to your scalling issues I have had only problems when using the HDMI cable only, it would only work in 1280x720 and is unreadable. If I use the VGA output then all is fine and runs 1360x768. The screen is 1366x768, as most are. This would obviosuly cause problems when watching ptotected media as the VGA does not support HDCP but I dont do that at the moment.
Peter
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