32bit vs 64bit Vista

[my-planet]

Strange, im with Egg and have no problems. Have been for years, using FF1, 2 and 3.

I'm using the Egg Money manager thingy. That installs an Active X jobbie...

[autopilot]

autopilot: do you mean User Agent Switcher? https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/59

Yeah, that's it (although i think there was another that was basically the same thing).

[aidanjt]

Getting Vista 32 is like getting a Fararri with a Corsa engine. If that answers your question.

[Agent]

Getting Vista 32 is like getting a Fararri with a Corsa engine. If that answers your question.

The Fararri isn't much use if you can't take on the motorway though

As this is going to be a HTPC based / Media Centre setup sadly there are some 64bit issues. As I said previously, I tried to get Vista64 as I wanted it running MC for the best part of 3 days. The codecs and tools to change back-end settings are just not available. Although if you do want to take each of my previous points and prove me wrong I'm more than happy to hear them

[aidanjt]

That only applies if you use 64bit media players, 32bit media players can still use the old codecs. It's a sad situation, I know, but it still works.

[Agent]

And with no 32bit version of Media Centre being included with Vista 64 (and no way to fall back to it unlike WMP), thats a bit of an issue

[aidanjt]

WMC sucks anyway, it can't even handle DVB-S streams. There are better alternatives out there.

[Agent]

Vista WMC is excellent IMO. I've been very impressed by it. In fact, its the primary TV in our house now.

You can get DVB-S in WMC, but its time consuming and not very user friendly.

Hopefully Fiji will come out in a reasonable timeframe though and solve the few things that are really missing (like interactive services).
I tried a few alternatives like Media Portal but was never fully happy with it. What did you have in mind?

[aidanjt]

Media Portal is one, not using Windows is another.

[Agent]

Which means for a lot of people learning a new OS. A bit extreme if someone just wants a media centre surely?

I've been 'learning' Linux for about a year now on and off, and I certainly wouldn't be confident setting a Linux based machine up for TV use currently

[aidanjt]

Mythbuntu is pretty straight forward to set up.

[Agent]

Set up? Yup. But if something goes wrong and you're dumped at the CLI at a later date its a different matter.

[aidanjt]

So don't play around with /etc/X11/xorg.conf settings

[Lemsip]

is your license retail or OEM? If it's retail you can buy the 64 bit media from Microsoft for a small fee and use the license key you have.

I have Vista Home Premium 32 OEM, so I would need to buy a new copy of Vista to change to 64 bit?

[aidanjt]

You'd need a new/'upgraded' license and 64bit install media at least.

[Splash]

I have Vista Home Premium 32 OEM, so I would need to buy a new copy of Vista to change to 64 bit?

In which case you would need to buy a new 64 bit license and media - you're only eligible for the alternative media if you bought the retail license.