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Does watching TV via Media Center run significantly better with the 64-
Bit OS installation?
 
Does watching TV via Media Center run significantly better with the 64-
Bit OS installation?
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No since MCE requires MPEG decoding in the TV adapter hardware, the 64-bit
CPU has little to do with it.

Tom Lake
 
Tom Lake said:
No since MCE requires MPEG decoding in the TV adapter hardware, the 64-bit
CPU has little to do with it.
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That's crap. Very few analogue TV-cards have hardware decoding. Digital TV
cards (in Europe and Australia. not sure about US systems) still need the
processor to decode the MPEG2 based tramsmission while viewing.

ss.
 
Synapse Syndrome said:
That's crap. Very few analogue TV-cards have hardware decoding. Digital
TV cards (in Europe and Australia. not sure about US systems) still need
the processor to decode the MPEG2 based tramsmission while viewing.
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And I just realised that you must have been erroneously confused with the
hardware ENcoding requirement for analogue cards, for recording.

ss.
 
Synapse Syndrome said:
Media Centre is still buggy then?

ss.
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If you are having issues with a particular piece of functionality of Windows
Vista then please share that with us (providing the necessary level of
detail about your system and the actual problem you are experiencing) and we
may be able to help you.
If not then please confine your input to actually helping those that post
here as this is a peer to peer support group.

If you are in doubt about the policy of posting here see.
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Alpha said:
All eight different ones we have are hardware decoding.
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Care to tell me the models? The only one I know of is the pretty rare
Hauppage PVR-350.

ss.
 
Mike Brannigan said:
If you are having issues with a particular piece of functionality of
Windows Vista then please share that with us (providing the necessary
level of detail about your system and the actual problem you are
experiencing) and we may be able to help you.
If not then please confine your input to actually helping those that post
here as this is a peer to peer support group.

If you are in doubt about the policy of posting here see.
http://www.microsoft.com/communities/conduct/default.mspx
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You're obviously new around here...

ss.
 
Synapse Syndrome said:
No, they have hardware ENCODING for recording. Only the 350 has hardware
DECODING as well. I do not know of any other analogue card that has this.
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Just to clear thing up a bit:

The decoders mentioned on that page are not hardware decoders. They are
software decoders. This doesn't mean that they are actually software; in
this sense it means that they use CPU to do the actual processing. They use
CPU time. This is like software modems, or 'Winmodem' that you may of heard
of in the past.

The Hauppauge PVR-350 has a TV-out, and so it has a 'hardware' decoder, as
it has to make the signal to the TV make sense before it gets to it.

ss.
 
So, is there an unaminous decision? Does the tuner card or the CPU do
the processing? If the CPU does, will the 64 bit processing help?
 
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