Topic: Unofficial HTPC users thread: Tips, Tricks, and everything HTPC

[ninjababez®]

Mejo nagtaas nga Ryzen Gen 3 bro. Almost a year ago nakabili ako Ryzen Gen 3 2200G for P3,700 (discounted price original price of P4k). When I checked again pinakamura na is at 5.5K (not sure kung legit as new seller pa lang) and pinakamahal is 7.7k. Generally it's in the 6-7k range. And you would think it should have gone down already pero mas nagmahal pa.

oo nga e
feeling ko benta mo sakin yan 2200g mo @ a discount hahaha

[Blackstar]

oo nga e
feeling ko benta mo sakin yan 2200g mo @ a discount hahaha

Hehehe. Naunahan ka ni utol bro. Nasa Nueva Ecija na yung pc ko. Bili ka na daw ng bagong mobo bro. Bukod sa mahilig ka sa mani, maning-mani lang sa yo yan.

[Stagea]

pag naging konsi nako master hehehe

Sakto na yun after next elections. Supported na din ng Windows 11 ang Picasso series.

[GIJoe]

Mejo nagtaas nga Ryzen Gen 3 bro. Almost a year ago nakabili ako Ryzen Gen 3 2200G for P3,700 (discounted price original price of P4k). When I checked again pinakamura na is at 5.5K (not sure kung legit as new seller pa lang) and pinakamahal is 7.7k. Generally it's in the 6-7k range. And you would think it should have gone down already pero mas nagmahal pa.

Kaya ako masaya na ako sa nvidia shield ko with synology NAS can handle any 4k 

[Blackstar]

Kaya ako masaya na ako sa nvidia shield ko with synology NAS can handle any 4k 

Katapusan na ng mundo @Bro Jammy! Tumalikod na sa htpc si GIJoe. Ang staunch defender ng htpc for media playback/use. Hehehe. Ano nangyari bro at tumalikod ka na sa htpc?

[GIJoe]

Katapusan na ng mundo @Bro Jammy! Tumalikod na sa htpc si GIJoe. Ang staunch defender ng htpc for media playback/use. Hehehe. Ano nangyari bro at tumalikod ka na sa htpc?

Haha bat pa ako papakahirap eh may mga nvidia shield na napakadali at napakaliit at mas mura pa siya mag 5 years na shield ko no issue so far. Ang mahal pa ng computer parts papakahirap ka pa bumuo. 

[GIJoe]

Tapos nakuha ko pa ng sale sa amazon yung nvidia shield ko plan ko nga add ng isa pang shield this black friday para updated sa dolby vision na. 

[raptor]

in my case, I disposed my media players ... kaya na ng mga bagong tv mag-play kahit na anong format, just need NAS or USB storage

[Arulco]

Hindi na rin worthit yung HTPC para sa akin. Pro problemahin ko pa kung pano I configure yung HDR atbp. sa settings sa MPC-HC para paganahin. Pati GPU decoder support ng video kailangan pang I check kung supported lalo na yung VP9 at AV1.

Sa mga bagong Smart TV or shield/chromecast hindi mo na iniisip yung mga yun. They just work. Mas maganda pa ang upscaling in my experience.

My setup: Synology DS1819+ upnp dlna to LG C1, via ethernet through router.

Yung native media player app lang ng LG C1 yung gamit ko. No plex, no transcoding. Simple lang interface at plays everything fine and I mean everything: 4K, AV1, VP9, HDR, Dolby Vision and so on.

[raptor]

Hindi na rin worthit yung HTPC para sa akin. Pro problemahin ko pa kung pano I configure yung HDR atbp. sa settings sa MPC-HC para paganahin. Pati GPU decoder support ng video kailangan pang I check kung supported lalo na yung VP9 at AV1.

Sa mga bagong Smart TV or shield/chromecast hindi mo na iniisip yung mga yun. They just work. Mas maganda pa ang upscaling in my experience.

My setup: Synology DS1819+ upnp dlna to LG C1, via ethernet through router.

Yung native media player app lang ng LG C1 yung gamit ko. No plex, no transcoding. Simple lang interface at plays everything fine and I mean everything: 4K, AV1, VP9, HDR, Dolby Vision and so on.

I'm using an older version of LG TV, yung Nano Cell circa 2017 ... I'm using a 6TB WD NAS, lahat din ng format kaya i-play ... planning to upgrade early next year to an LG C1 or Sony A80J, pretty sure na mas better ang compatibility on any formats ... nahabol na ng smart tv technology ang previous na purpose ng mga HTPC at Media Players .... ang dami pa ng debates natin before about which is the better one, parehong di na worth to have nowadays ... even gaming consoles have more advanced capabilities now

[GIJoe]

in my case, I disposed my media players ... kaya na ng mga bagong tv mag-play kahit na anong format, just need NAS or USB storage

New TV even may EArc can't play lossless audio like DTSHD-MA+DTS-X and Trued-HD+Atmos so need ko pa din ng media player. DD++Atmos and DTS okay lang. Almost all my collection na nasa NAS is remux with lossless audio.

[Stagea]

I'm using an older version of LG TV, yung Nano Cell circa 2017 ... I'm using a 6TB WD NAS, lahat din ng format kaya i-play ... planning to upgrade early next year to an LG C1 or Sony A80J, pretty sure na mas better ang compatibility on any formats ... nahabol na ng smart tv technology ang previous na purpose ng mga HTPC at Media Players .... ang dami pa ng debates natin before about which is the better one, parehong di na worth to have nowadays ... even gaming consoles have more advanced capabilities now

Before getting the A80J, try to play a video via YouTube and turn on the stats for nerds. Sony tends to run its smart interface at 1080P para smooth mga overlay. To do this, they downscale the streamed video to 1080P tapos upscale ulet to 4K or 8K depending on the model.

They're running a newer SoC sa 2021 models that they say can decode 4K (the SoC itself is capable of 8K30, pero locked-out ng Sony ang 8K streaming functionality at this point). Technically kaya na dapat mag 4K nung hardware ng A80J without the lossy process of downscaling then upscaling, pero double-check na lang kung yung software nila is now allowing this.

We have 2020 and older Sony TVs; pet peeve ko yung internal scaling issue kaya gumagamit pa din ako ng external players (HTPC and BDP)... noticeably better yung image from an external source in my experience with these TVs,
 

[Stagea]

Support for BD playback (especially 4K Blurays) is starting to end in PCs.

We already know that Intel removed the SGX extensions this year. Now the feature is slowly being deprecated in older machines via software through driver and OS updates (it can still be remedied, however). The reason for this move is the presence of serious security flaws in the feature.

Cyberlink drops support for 4K BD playback：
https://www.cyberlink.com/support/faq-content.do?id=26690&ez_cid=CLIENT_ID(AMP_ECID_EZOIC)

There are still Chinese apps that support 4K BD playback；I just don’t know how secure they are. Ripping the discs would be another option.

This change makes HTPCs less palatable for many, pushing people like me towards dedicated players and consoles.

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[Arulco]

Support for BD playback (especially 4K Blurays) is starting to end in PCs.

We already know that Intel removed the SGX extensions this year. Now the feature is slowly being deprecated in older machines via software through driver and OS updates (it can still be remedied, however). The reason for this move is the presence of serious security flaws in the feature.

Cyberlink drops support for 4K BD playback：
https://www.cyberlink.com/support/faq-content.do?id=26690&ez_cid=CLIENT_ID(AMP_ECID_EZOIC)

There are still Chinese apps that support 4K BD playback；I just don’t know how secure they are. Ripping the discs would be another option.

This change makes HTPCs less palatable for many, pushing people like me towards dedicated players and consoles.

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Agreed. HTPC involves too much effort to get it to work right IMHO. Ever since I got my Synology NAS, LG C1 TV and more recently, a 4K Bluray Player. It just works™

The newest TV SoCs are becoming more capable too in terms of responsiveness, image processing and supported video formats.

[raptor]

Support for BD playback (especially 4K Blurays) is starting to end in PCs.

We already know that Intel removed the SGX extensions this year. Now the feature is slowly being deprecated in older machines via software through driver and OS updates (it can still be remedied, however). The reason for this move is the presence of serious security flaws in the feature.

Cyberlink drops support for 4K BD playback：
https://www.cyberlink.com/support/faq-content.do?id=26690&ez_cid=CLIENT_ID(AMP_ECID_EZOIC)

There are still Chinese apps that support 4K BD playback；I just don’t know how secure they are. Ripping the discs would be another option.

This change makes HTPCs less palatable for many, pushing people like me towards dedicated players and consoles.

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hardware wise, halos di na readily available mga internal disc players for PC's whether its DVD or BD ... new PC cases no longer have provisions for disc players ... puro streaming at torrent download kung wala sa subscribed streaming channel yung content

[Stagea]

hardware wise, halos di na readily available mga internal disc players for PC's whether its DVD or BD ... new PC cases no longer have provisions for disc players ... puro streaming at torrent download kung wala sa subscribed streaming channel yung content

Yup, madalas di na nakastock sa physical stores. Online na lang madalas nabibili yung drives and karamihan external na nga.

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[Verbl Kint]

Truth be told, I still keep an old Windows Vista installer and an external HD-DVD Rom drive (I hope it still works lol).  I have a couple dozen HD DVD's which I will probably never let go of and might actually end up wanting to view later (some are still unopened, btw).

For blu-rays, I always rip them, use the ISO's for viewing, and keep the discs stored.  I shudder now at having to manually look for actual discs under piles of hoarded media.  This also probably means that I should never let go of my trusty Xbox One S. 

[Stagea]

The newest TV SoCs are becoming more capable too in terms of responsiveness, image processing and supported video formats.

Agree. Most of the major brands are really running either Mediatek or Samsung SoCs inside. Right now only the 8K models tend to have the best SoCs that support AV1 and VVC decode and improved scaling methods, but I'm hoping that they'd start fitting these into 4K TVs.

Flagship TV SOCs:
MediaTek | MediaTek Pentonic 2000
S.LSI Developers and Ultra-High-Definition 8K TV Technology | Samsung Semiconductor Global

What I don't like about most Smart TVs is that they don't downscale higher res content (most will not let you view a higher bitrate 8K stream on a 4K screen, etc.). The same is true for most set-top boxes... this is a feature that can easily be done by an HTPC if the material isn't DRM restricted. Another thing is viewport scaling for certain video sources on many TVs (mostly Android and Roku TVs/STBs); using an HTPC gives me a sharper image because of this (no viewport scaling).

[Nelson de Leon]

Yup, madalas di na nakastock sa physical stores. Online na lang madalas nabibili yung drives and karamihan external na nga.

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2016 ko pa ata naging issue ito. I bought 3 types of BD players for PC. Palpak lahat. I think ito ang perks ng legit BDs Haha!

[Stagea]

2016 ko pa ata naging issue ito. I bought 3 types of BD players for PC. Palpak lahat. I think ito ang perks ng legit BDs Haha!

Daming binili！ Xbox One S pwedeng murang BDP.

[Nelson de Leon]

Daming binili！ Xbox One S pwedeng murang BDP.

Yes. Ang consequences lang, baka magka-hilig ako sa gaming, ubos oras. Haha!

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