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Bouncing Zabaglione Bros.
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You have 30 days of non-activation, but you can reset twice to get 90 days in total.
How do the Windows 7 discs work? Is it the same as Vista in regards to all versions on the same disc and it installs according to what you select? I take it MSDN source is different and doesn't ask for the version to install?
My wife's hard drive died this morning and we've got the W7 pre-orders coming Oct 22 but I'd rather put W7 on now and put the key in once it arrives.
edit: found the info. There is an ei.cfg which automatically selects the version to install. Apparently I just need to delete that from the source image and the install should ask which version I want to install. Or edit the cfg file and specify professional instead of ultimate.
My wife's hard drive died this morning and we've got the W7 pre-orders coming Oct 22 but I'd rather put W7 on now and put the key in once it arrives.
edit: found the info. There is an ei.cfg which automatically selects the version to install. Apparently I just need to delete that from the source image and the install should ask which version I want to install. Or edit the cfg file and specify professional instead of ultimate.
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Don't forget The KMPlayer
Indeed KMP is great! I use it as my primary player few years now.
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Im really trying to like KMP however it truly seems bloated when compared to MPC-HC and I for the life of me cant get DXVA to work correctly, I have several H264 encoded files (all the way from Main@L3.0 to High@L5.1) that cause my htpc with an Opty 145/2GB/Win7 to shoot up to about 65-85% CPU usage but with HPC-HC typical usage is about 4-11%.
Friend of mine got a copy of Win7 Ultimate for his ethereal virtual release party.
Just installed Ultimate 64-bit (thank you technet) and loving it so far. Haven't installed a single app, just going through configuring it to my tastes and enjoying its boot times and responsiveness compared to Vista. Only hardware it didn't detect during installation was my Plantronics USB headset.
Just installed Ultimate 64-bit (thank you technet) and loving it so far. Haven't installed a single app, just going through configuring it to my tastes and enjoying its boot times and responsiveness compared to Vista. Only hardware it didn't detect during installation was my Plantronics USB headset.
Bouncing Zabaglione Bros.
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I haven't seen the UK Academic Offer mentioned here. £30 for Home Premium or Professional if you have a UK academic email address. It's obviously an attempt to get money out of poor cashless students who would otherwise be very inclined to pirate it. It also falls into their normal strategy of effectively giving students a taste of the product so that is what they learn on and ask for in their following careers. MS has for a long time been giving away free OS and applications to students under various academic schemes if you are in a relevant computing/engineering course, but this is allowing everyone in academia to get a 85 percent discount on the new OS.
Hmm, I might take advantage of this as my wife is a lecturer....
Hmm, I might take advantage of this as my wife is a lecturer....
I took the plunge and switched from XP to 7. It hasn't been a completely smooth transition, though. Drivers for hardware haven't been a problem, but drivers for security software isn't really, but luckily Symantec released a new version of my AV that works with Windows 7 a few days ago and my firewall was updated yesterday.
Also, media players are a bit of a hassle. I use Zoom Player for video and foobar2000 for audio and both required a bit of bodging and tinkering, but I still have a problem with the default Microsoft MP3 DMO, but it might be Zoom Player not working properly with Windows 7. The problem is that skipping forward or backward in a file with MP3 audio is not as smooth as I'd like or as it was in XP with the Fraunhofer MP3 decoder. There is an audible click and not a smooth, fast ramping of volume.
But I have managed to tweak Windows 7 a bit and I am liking it, though I need to tweak more as there is behaviour I don't like in Windows Explorer and I need to fix it.
Also, media players are a bit of a hassle. I use Zoom Player for video and foobar2000 for audio and both required a bit of bodging and tinkering, but I still have a problem with the default Microsoft MP3 DMO, but it might be Zoom Player not working properly with Windows 7. The problem is that skipping forward or backward in a file with MP3 audio is not as smooth as I'd like or as it was in XP with the Fraunhofer MP3 decoder. There is an audible click and not a smooth, fast ramping of volume.
But I have managed to tweak Windows 7 a bit and I am liking it, though I need to tweak more as there is behaviour I don't like in Windows Explorer and I need to fix it.
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Bludd, if you want lighter load of background stuff, use Windows' own firewall, it works just as fine as the 3rd party stuff, and if there's a tool that gives you more control over it if you want.
Also, the Microsoft Security Essentials is quite light as a AV and should work fine, if you really think you need AV.
I suggest changing to Media Player Classic Home Cinema for video, if not for else, but for superior IQ (via shader enhancements) and DXVA (hardware decoding) support.
WMP12's own codecs work fine, too, and support DXVA and pretty much all video files (as long as you install Haali Media Splitter for .mkv's), but doesn't offer the enhancing shaders MPCHC does
Also, the Microsoft Security Essentials is quite light as a AV and should work fine, if you really think you need AV.
I suggest changing to Media Player Classic Home Cinema for video, if not for else, but for superior IQ (via shader enhancements) and DXVA (hardware decoding) support.
WMP12's own codecs work fine, too, and support DXVA and pretty much all video files (as long as you install Haali Media Splitter for .mkv's), but doesn't offer the enhancing shaders MPCHC does
Thanks for your suggestions. I won't use the Windows Firewall, because it has sub-standard outbound protection. I don't want to use the Microsoft Security Essentials when I have a proper licence for Symantec Endpoint Protection and the new version (11.0.5) works well with Windows 7.
I don't like the GUI of MPCHC and the WMP12 codecs are not fine with the Haali renderer. Xvid is blocky as hell, no I'll stick with FFdshow and Zoom Player.
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Strange, I haven't had problems with WMP12 and videos being blocky, it might be the Haali renderer if you're using that which is causing problems, you should only use the Haali splitter so it can crack those mkvs open and use it's own codecs + renderer.
GUI is of course something you like or don't, but MPCHC is one the rare cases where I don't mind the GUI, the features are just too good to ignore (opens 'anything', has good shaders to improve iq, supports dxva)
Windows Firewall has been properly "two-way firewall" since Vista, so it does have proper outbound protection too.
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I edited my post. What I meant was that it has sub-standard outbound protection.
The Haali renderer is awesome so I'm staying with it.
Is Haali renderer really tangibly better than EVR? The description of supposedly superior bicubic scaling (vs. MPC's bicubic VMR9 option) is interesting, but I always suspect such trivial advantages as being placebo. I have a hard time seeing the difference between linear filtering, bicubic, and even complex resizers such as lanczos and spline. Screenshot comparisons are kinda ridiculous IMO because that's not how your eyeballs see video in motion.
My favorite aspect to Vista/7 is how Aero prevents tearing issues with video. Helps everything from video files to Flash and Netflix/Silverlight.
My favorite aspect to Vista/7 is how Aero prevents tearing issues with video. Helps everything from video files to Flash and Netflix/Silverlight.
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I tried Haali renderer once and there was a bug (a line of white pixels on the top and left borders).
thus I quickly went back to VMR. I don't bother with those options either, at the least they're pretty low priority
thus I quickly went back to VMR. I don't bother with those options either, at the least they're pretty low priority
I got a question and maybe someone on this forum can help me out here but since a few days ago I have noticed that the nvidia driver keeps crashing every few minutes. Basically my screen blacks out and then comes back again and I get a popup saying the kernel module driver has crashed and has recovered...I have not made any changes to my hardware or my software. It just started happening out of the blow. Happens quite a lot when I am surfing the web and going from website to website...and even during video playback. Upon googling I have noticed some users have had similar issues as well but there is no solution yet.
Nvidia driver version is 190.62 and I am running Windows 7 RC 1 x64. Any tips would be much appreciated. I even went ahead and uninstalled the driver and then used the driver sweeper tool to wipe out all the registry entries and reinstalled the drivers to no avail.
Nvidia driver version is 190.62 and I am running Windows 7 RC 1 x64. Any tips would be much appreciated. I even went ahead and uninstalled the driver and then used the driver sweeper tool to wipe out all the registry entries and reinstalled the drivers to no avail.
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