So, since going with a media center xbox 360 set up and giving up my PS3 I have had problems watching bluray rips I have made with what I consider reasonable bitrates. I have read and followed many guides but still get stuttering. I am using Windows 7 64 and have a wired Gigabit etwork on a linksys WRT310N...

So it's not exactly MCE centric but does anyone know why dvr-ms recordings of 22.4Gb would become 94.6Gb when converted to a blu ray disc and format that should play on a standalone Blu ray player. I did set it to the best quality but still I wouldn't expect the size to increase by much.

I know that there are a lot of threads out there already on ripping Blu Rays and getting them into a good format for various uses, XBox360 Extenders being one of them. Well, they are all 30 pages long so I fuigured I'd make one more. I'd love to see this as the thread that has the latest and...

If I load up media centre and play "Digital Video Essentials" using media centre's own DVD player, I get roughly the same settings as I do with Media Centre's in-built calibration utitly. If I then use exactly the same DVD but this time play it with Cyberlink Power DVD (from within...

Dear Internet, I've been prepping for my HTPC build, which will commence as soon as the Ceton tuner is launched (You hear that jeremyh? I'm waiting on YOU) and lurking around here, gathering information. For my build, I keep going back and forth about whether or not a Blu-Ray drive is worth it...

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I have 5 or 6 blu-ray rips that contain DTS Master Audio sound tracks that I stream to popcorn hour and play back without issue. However I have just installed Win7 and tried playing back .ts file in W7MC. The fact they played back at all was a step forward from VMC !!. However I get no sound playback...

Hey all... with the new 4-tuner Centon CableCARD setups approaching, I am hoping to be able to use my gaming rig as an HTPC so I only have to run one system instead of two. I plan to purchase Win 7 Home Premium with the newegg "for system builders" promo (]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product...