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I have created a 30 minute film clip of a family vacation, and I would like to burn it to a DVD so that it can be played on any home DVD player. Using Windows Explorer, I first insert the DVD in my drive and wait a bit for the box to appear asking how I wish to use the DVD. I click the...

Good morning. I posted here before, or rather at the former iteration of the Windows Forum, about how I wanted to replace the sound card with a digital receiver and some regular bookshelf speakers, because I found the Klipsch Pro-Media powered speaker systems ( I have both the 2.1 and the 4.1...

Can anyone point me in the direction of information about whether it is possible to access my Win7 HTPC remotely to initiate torrent downloads? Thanks for any help.

Have recently upgraded a pc to WIN 8.1 Pro 64 bit from WIN 7 64 bit. Before the upgrade I had a DxTreme 380 media box located in the lounge room and networked via Cat6 cable to the pc in the bedroom. All devices on the network - Samsung tv, DxTreme box + 4 PC's have static IP addresses...

I have an external hard drive I use to store movie files I have transcoded from DVD into .mp4 format. I used up most of the space on a 1 TB drive, so I am importing files to a 2 TB drive. there are nearly 200 files that did not successfully transfer- which I have determined to be caused by a...

I have just recently purchased an A/V Receiver-Sony STRDH520, a low-end 7.1ch receiver. I also have a myriad of various speakers to use, from Klipschs to Polk Audio speakers to Bose 301s. I also just purchased a Polk audio 12" powered sub to go with these. Anyway, I plan on only using 5.1 right...

This might belong in some other section, but my question concerns the amount of connections to an Uninterruptible power supply. See, I have an older, WW2-era wiring setup in my house, so I worry about too much on one fuse. I have the CyberPower model CP 1350c, with details, here: Link...

No matter how I do it, every time I try to use a video program it crashes the instant I try to play a video. This is a recent phenomena. All of my video programs were working up until about a day ago. I use VLC, PotPlayer, and Media Player Classic-Home Cinema. I'm not sure if it has anything to...

Most HD movies are rendered in 1920x1080 pixel resolution. What's a pixel? Link Removed The original Super Mario was comprised of tiny little squares called pixels. His appearance in the original Donkey Kong probably used even fewer pixels. For example, Mario's thumb on his right hand is one...

I guess I should start by saying I'm running Windows 7 Ultimate x86 I got a pair of Link Removed for Christmas and couldn't wait to pair them up to my Windows 7 Home Theater PC so I could watch movies after my wife has gone to bed w/o disturbing her. My first problem was I had no bluetooth...

Hello fellas, I'm fairly new to this forum but lets not waste your time with me. So to the question: Several months ago I was using Vista when decided to upgrade my system to Windows 7, thus, I decided to update all of my drivers as well. The problem: I had the following jack retasking...

First sorry about spelling. I just wanted to know how to set up media sharing between media player and my Xbox as IV never liked media center and alot of my films are not a compatible format. So I use media sharing but since updating to this preview program I can't seem to set it up can any...

Hi All, Recently i brought one 5.1 Home theater and m trying it to connect with my Compaq laptop . Problem :- My problem is i am unable to get 5.1 output from my laptop. My laptop model is:- CQ40 425TU. I am using windows7 OS and my sound card is IDT - High Definition Audio . I have tried...

hello there - thank you for reading my post. i have 3 computers - a laptop (vista wireless), a home theater pc (win 7 wireless) and my main computer (win 7 wired) with all my media files. i have a network setup and the laptop and the HTPC can connect to each other when i click their icons in...

An update is available for Windows Media Center in Windows 7. This update fixes a deadlock issue that occurs when you use TV tunner in Windows Media Center to watch TV. Link Removed

Hello,Does anyone know something about WINAMP DSP & OUTPUT plugins:witch plugins works best and does it create better audio if used together,i should mention that my laptop is connected v. HDMI to home cinema speakers 5,1. advice will bee appriciated.Kind Regards CASI.:confused::confused:

Hello everyone.I have a laptop connected to home cinema v.HDMI and i have been adviced to download in flac instead of mp3,but i have a little difficulty hearing the difference.I am total green regarding computers so maybee someone could advice me.:confused:Kind Regards CASI.

At the moment I'm putting my vast DVD collection onto an external HDD (around 600 DVDS) using DVDFab. You know the drills , remove all the crappy ads , copyright warnings and the rest of the junk. I just want the films and nothing else. So, what's the best option for me ? Buy a "media player"...

hello everyone i have got a expencive home cinema system and i hear all my music via laptop through hdmi,downloaded material mostly but also streaming.The question is can i hear the difference between mp3(190-320kbs) and flac (1000kbs) i have realy listened but i can not hear the difference or...