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HD PVR - Is it working ?
Considering the HD PVR for a new HD setup but this means I'll have to get new sat. receivers, setup, etc. Before proceeding I did some research on these and, I gotta say, the feedback doesn't sound good. Naturally, most posts on forums are people with problems or issues so I'd like to hear the positive feedback as well. Perhaps Sage users can help me out here. My install will be on a Sage server, possibly WHS, with 2 or 3 devices.
Video Quality - Is it OK ? HD100 Playback - Any issues ? Hardware Lockups and Reboots - True or not ? Maybe tied with heat issues... Heat Issues - True ? IR Blaster - Not sure I care because a USB-UIRT is going to be used (they rule BTW). 5.1 Audio - Working now ? |
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Edit: I forgot to answer two of your questions. I only use the USBUIRT for channel changing as I also have two DishNetwork 311's so my USBUIRT controlls all three boxes beautifully. If you use more than one HDPVR then you can't use the IR blaster that comes with it (Hauppauge limitation not sage). Secondly, I haven't tried the 5.1 sound. Right now my basement is under construction and that is where I have my home theater setup, so I am just using the stereo output since the only tv's that have an HD100 (and are accessible) don't have 5.1 sound anyway. I will probably try it out once my basement renovation is complete.
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Sage Server: AMD Athlon II 630, Asrock 785G motherboard, 3GB of RAM, 500GB OS HD in RAID 1 and 2 - 750GB Recording Drives, HDHomerun, Avermedia HD Duet & 2-HDPVRs, and 9.0TB storage in RAID 5 via Dell Perc 5i for DVD storage Source: Clear QAM and OTA for locals, 2-DishNetwork VIP211's Clients: 2 Sage HD300's, 2 Sage HD200's, 2 Sage HD100's, 1 MediaMVP, and 1 Placeshifter Last edited by paulbeers; 10-31-2008 at 01:14 PM. |
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*I'm still debugging that, I mentioned that I was having some issues to Sage, sent them a recording and was told they know about them and are working with Hauppauge. But the * is really because I think the glitches are not the HD PVRs fault but mine. My server is an Athlon XP 1800+, and it runs SageTV, J River Media Center, DVBDream, and IIS/PHP/Cacti (which is very cool BTW). I've been debugging my server CPU usage today, and I think the IIS process was interrupting Sage recordings, causing Sage to drop packets or something. I noticed that I had the Cacti page open in a browser on another PC that when it refreshed the page, the IIS process would go to 100% CPU for a moment, and Sage would drop to 0%. I've been having similar inexplicable glitches in some of my OTA/HDHR recordings. So I dropped the priority of my IIS process and closed all my open Cacti sessions, so we'll see what happens tonight with some HD PVR recordings. <geek alert> Oh, in addition to Cacti being very cool, Perfmon is quite cool also, it can log the CPU usage of individual processes ![]() So no, everything is not perfect yet, but it is very good overall. The extender handles the files very well. |
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Well, here are my thoughts, for what it's worth.
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1. Locked the STB to a fixed resolution (720p in my case) 2. Set audio for 2 channel PCM. (see below comment on 5.1) Quote:
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I never used it long enough to find out how solid it really was. My issue with enabling 5.1 audio had to do with the time to change channels. Using the latest 1.1 driver set to two channel PCM, channel changes only take a few seconds on the HD100 and the audio syncs up right away. Using 5.1, changes take up to 10 seconds and the audio cuts in and out during this time (which completely killed the WAF). |
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