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    MCE 2005 Issues

    Well, it would appear that my shuttle is nearing the end of its life..

    It plays normal DVD/AVI content but it just fails miserably when it comes to HD stuff.

    Got into my head that getting an ATi HD card would solve the problem as the ATi card would play the HD content and take the strain off of the CPU (XP2500 Barton)

    Problem is the HD2400 I just bought makes no difference what so ever, its any better than the 7600GS I had in there previously, and to make matters worse when it boots into windows its fine but as soon as MCE loads up I get a black screen, you can move the mouse and the cursor appears and u can use the remote but the screen stays black and you cant see a bloody thing, Alt-F4 takes you back to the windows desktop and all is normal..

    I'm hoping its a driver/codec thing and this ATi card will actually do what I want it too, would be a shame to have to replace the Shuttle after all this time as all it does is MCE these days....

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    XP2500 Barton
    1gb PC3200
    40Gb HDD
    DVD/RW
    HD2400Pro 256Mb AGP or NV7600GS 256Mb AGP


    All I want to do is use the damned thing as an MCE box and play HD content...

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    Re: MCE 2005 Issues

    Have you installed AVIVO?

    What's the default DVD codec? You can use this utility to check.

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    Re: MCE 2005 Issues

    I thought avivo was encode not decode?

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    Re: MCE 2005 Issues

    From Wiki:
    The platform involves hardware video decoding and a variety of tools to aid in the process. AVIVO compatible GPUs have lower CPU usage when a player and decoder software that support AVIVO is used.
    I think it does include an encoding tool, though I've never used it.

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