RE: [H] Verizon DSL

[Mike Resnick]

Sounds like your problem with Comcast might be location
dependant.
One of my kids lives in southern NJ and has Comcast.  
They set it up for her at no cost, including a free SB cable modem.
Throughput up and down is fantastic - at least as good as Optonline.com
(i.e., Cablevision).
Anyway, after her service was up and running I just added a D-Link router
for her without any problems.
I even asked the installer when he was at her house if there was any
problem adding a router.  
He said no, but suggested that Comcast's on-line support (monkeys) might
ask for it to be removed if they were troubleshooting a problem.
The way he told it, it wasn't that Comcast had a problem with the router
as much as it was that their support monkeys would use it as an excuse
for any problems that were reported to them.  
By the way, how would Comcast know which specific router you
used?
Regards,
Mike

At 07:15 PM 1/8/2006 -0500, AMDSpeed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
I've had nothing but great service
with Verizon DSL at my place in Queens
NYC. My girlfriend just switched over from Comcast in Pittsburgh to
Verizon
DSL. Sorry, but Comcast blows chunks. Wouldn't allow any aftermarket
router
to be used, shoddy service. I've been using Verizon for over 3 years now
in
Queens and have had to reset the modem maybe once a year. I just switched
to
the $15/month plan and the speed is quite acceptable. Only while
downloading
large files such as MS updates or large files do you notice it, but it
seems
the rest of the internet is slow enough that my connection is usually
not
the bottleneck. I'm currently using Optimum Online and its great except
the
$$$ so I'll be switching her also.
You'll need to use their software to setup the modem and initialize
your
account, but afterwards, you don't need any extra software to access
the
internet.


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RE: [H] Win XP Media Center

[Wayne Johnson]

At 11:18 PM 1/8/2006, Chris Reeves typed:

That's not true.  Several HDTV cards work under MCE - including the MDP-120
:)

Several report good success with that.


I don't believe that I stated that the MDP-120 would NOT work just 
that it's not officially supported as it does NOT have the MSFT 
blessing as of yet. I believe one of the Fusion cards do now tho. The 
link I provided was to the official MSFT list of approved hardware 
but as with all things concerning MSFT & hardware the list is hardly 
complete & is updated all the time even tho that web page may not be.



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RE: [H] Win XP Media Center

[Chris Reeves]

Yep, MCE requires you have one standard analog tuner first before an HDTV
tuner can be added.  :)

There are "tricks" to get around this with the ATI HDTV Wonder, but they
suck, and I wouldn't recommend them to anyone ;)




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> [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of lopaka
> Sent: Sunday, January 08, 2006 10:39 PM
> To: The Hardware List
> Subject: Re: [H] Win XP Media Center
> 
> I do believe you have to install at least one compatible analog tv
> capture card (hardware not software decoding) first in MCE, then the
> A180 should work fine. At least thats what I caught in a couple of the
> messageboards. I don't know though because I have issues with MCE's DRM
> limitations so I'm still using standard XP for my HTPC. I do have an
> A180 arriving tomorrow so I'll let you know how it looks/performs ;)
> 
> I'm finally building my own SLI gaming rig with an A8N Deluxe mobo that
> I've had for 7 mos, so the opteron board will now move to the HTPC. Too
> many bills these days to do the monthly upgrades :(
> 
> lopaka
> 
> Chris Reeves wrote:
> > That's not true.  Several HDTV cards work under MCE - including the MDP-
> 120
> > :)
> >
> > Several report good success with that.
> >
> > But there has been some praise for the Avermedia A180 card as an option
> as
> > well.
> >
> > CW
> >
> >
> > 
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> >>
> >>At 07:09 PM 1/8/2006, Hunter, Gary typed:
> >>
> >>>Does anyone know of a list of supported TV tuner cards for media
> center.
> >>
> >> & the
> >>problem is that the only supported HDTV card is the ATI card & as
> >>Chris has mentioned it has all sorts of issues with MCE.  I'd rather
> >>use the MyHD MDP-120 card with it's own menuing system on a plain
> >>jane Xp system until MSFT can get more hardware supt for MCE.
> >>
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Re: [H] Win XP Media Center

[lopaka]

I do believe you have to install at least one compatible analog tv 
capture card (hardware not software decoding) first in MCE, then the 
A180 should work fine. At least thats what I caught in a couple of the 
messageboards. I don't know though because I have issues with MCE's DRM 
limitations so I'm still using standard XP for my HTPC. I do have an 
A180 arriving tomorrow so I'll let you know how it looks/performs ;)


I'm finally building my own SLI gaming rig with an A8N Deluxe mobo that 
I've had for 7 mos, so the opteron board will now move to the HTPC. Too 
many bills these days to do the monthly upgrades :(


lopaka

Chris Reeves wrote:

That's not true.  Several HDTV cards work under MCE - including the MDP-120
:)

Several report good success with that.

But there has been some praise for the Avermedia A180 card as an option as
well.  


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Sent: Sunday, January 08, 2006 7:40 PM
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Subject: Re: [H] Win XP Media Center

At 07:09 PM 1/8/2006, Hunter, Gary typed:


Does anyone know of a list of supported TV tuner cards for media center.


 & the
problem is that the only supported HDTV card is the ATI card & as
Chris has mentioned it has all sorts of issues with MCE.  I'd rather
use the MyHD MDP-120 card with it's own menuing system on a plain
jane Xp system until MSFT can get more hardware supt for MCE.


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RE: [H] Win XP Media Center

[Chris Reeves]

That's not true.  Several HDTV cards work under MCE - including the MDP-120
:)

Several report good success with that.

But there has been some praise for the Avermedia A180 card as an option as
well.  

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> Subject: Re: [H] Win XP Media Center
> 
> At 07:09 PM 1/8/2006, Hunter, Gary typed:
> >Does anyone know of a list of supported TV tuner cards for media center.
> 
>  & the
> problem is that the only supported HDTV card is the ATI card & as
> Chris has mentioned it has all sorts of issues with MCE.  I'd rather
> use the MyHD MDP-120 card with it's own menuing system on a plain
> jane Xp system until MSFT can get more hardware supt for MCE.
> 
> 
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> 

RE: [H] Verizon DSL

[Winterlight]

At 07:05 PM 1/8/2006, you wrote:

I had tons of problems with my BEFCMU10 for a while, and then picked up
a Dlink Docsis 2.0 modem off of newegg.com with a rebate, and the
problems went away.

The cable companies (cox in my case) must have done an upgrade that
caused problems with some of the older modems.

Look on Newegg, find a nice one with a rebate, and try it out.

Harry



Well, if I can get one from COX like FP did for 60 bucks then I will do 
that in the morning. That way if it doesn't help I can blame them.


m




On Sun, 2006-01-08 at 18:56 -0800, Winterlight wrote:
> >FWIW I had a similar problem and it seems my modem was not on the
> >*approved* list anymore so got a new Motorola from Cox for $60 and all is
> >better, have not had to reset the modem once. ( the router a couple of
> >times) but the modem has been a rock.
> >Tallyho ! ]:8)
>
> So they will sell you a modem?
>
> At 06:27 PM 1/8/2006, you wrote:
> >Before ditching Cox I would first see upgrading your cable modem to a
> >current generation model will help. Verizon's DSL can't compete with the
> >bandwidth Cox is giving away practically for free. This is why FIOS is
> >being heavily invested.
>
> Thing is my modem is a Linksys BEFCMU10, about three and half years
> old,  that is on their approved list
>
> Standard Specification Compliant  DOCSIS 1.0
>   Hardware Version  3.0
>   Software Version  1.0.7 (befcmu10v108-test0925.bin)
>   Cable Modem MAC Address  00:06:25:AE:18:C6
>   Cable Modem Serial Number  KBG2316676
>   CPE-end Interface  Ethernet + USB
>   CM certificate  RSA Key Pair Installed
>
> You still think it could be the modem?
>

RE: [H] Verizon DSL

[Harry McGregor]

I had tons of problems with my BEFCMU10 for a while, and then picked up
a Dlink Docsis 2.0 modem off of newegg.com with a rebate, and the
problems went away.

The cable companies (cox in my case) must have done an upgrade that
caused problems with some of the older modems.

Look on Newegg, find a nice one with a rebate, and try it out.

Harry

On Sun, 2006-01-08 at 18:56 -0800, Winterlight wrote:
> >FWIW I had a similar problem and it seems my modem was not on the 
> >*approved* list anymore so got a new Motorola from Cox for $60 and all is 
> >better, have not had to reset the modem once. ( the router a couple of 
> >times) but the modem has been a rock.
> >Tallyho ! ]:8)
> 
> So they will sell you a modem?
> 
> At 06:27 PM 1/8/2006, you wrote:
> >Before ditching Cox I would first see upgrading your cable modem to a 
> >current generation model will help. Verizon's DSL can't compete with the 
> >bandwidth Cox is giving away practically for free. This is why FIOS is 
> >being heavily invested.
> 
> Thing is my modem is a Linksys BEFCMU10, about three and half years 
> old,  that is on their approved list
> 
> Standard Specification Compliant  DOCSIS 1.0
>   Hardware Version  3.0
>   Software Version  1.0.7 (befcmu10v108-test0925.bin)
>   Cable Modem MAC Address  00:06:25:AE:18:C6
>   Cable Modem Serial Number  KBG2316676
>   CPE-end Interface  Ethernet + USB
>   CM certificate  RSA Key Pair Installed
> 
> You still think it could be the modem? 
> 

RE: [H] Verizon DSL

[Winterlight]

FWIW I had a similar problem and it seems my modem was not on the 
*approved* list anymore so got a new Motorola from Cox for $60 and all is 
better, have not had to reset the modem once. ( the router a couple of 
times) but the modem has been a rock.

Tallyho ! ]:8)


So they will sell you a modem?

At 06:27 PM 1/8/2006, you wrote:
Before ditching Cox I would first see upgrading your cable modem to a 
current generation model will help. Verizon's DSL can't compete with the 
bandwidth Cox is giving away practically for free. This is why FIOS is 
being heavily invested.


Thing is my modem is a Linksys BEFCMU10, about three and half years 
old,  that is on their approved list


Standard Specification Compliant  DOCSIS 1.0
 Hardware Version  3.0
 Software Version  1.0.7 (befcmu10v108-test0925.bin)
 Cable Modem MAC Address  00:06:25:AE:18:C6
 Cable Modem Serial Number  KBG2316676
 CPE-end Interface  Ethernet + USB
 CM certificate  RSA Key Pair Installed

You still think it could be the modem? 

RE: [H] Verizon DSL

[Hayes Elkins]

Before ditching Cox I would first see upgrading your cable modem to a 
current generation model will help. Verizon's DSL can't compete with the 
bandwidth Cox is giving away practically for free. This is why FIOS is being 
heavily invested.




From: Winterlight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: The Hardware List 
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Subject: [H] Verizon DSL
Date: Sun, 08 Jan 2006 15:28:52 -0800

Do you guys with Verizon DSL have a reliable connection. I have COX cable 
modem. The first five years it was great...never had a problem... but a 
year ago I began having all sorts of problems. One day I can't send email, 
one day I can't receive mail. Seems like every other Sunday at midnight 
eastern my connection goes south... or like to day, I keep having to reset 
my modem and even when connected I can't through to a lot of sites. It 
feels like I have hollow bandwidth. I have had this sort of problem last 
until the middle of the week and then it's OK for a few days until the 
next Sunday. Well, I have had enough.


 I just checked the Verizon site and see that I can get better upload 
speeds then I am getting now, and similar download for 25 per cent less 
money! So I am thinking of giving it a try. Verizon DSL just uses a modem 
right? There is not logging in software involved ...right?


How reliable a service is it?

Re: [H] Verizon DSL

[FORC5]

FWIW I had a similar problem and it seems my modem was not on the *approved* 
list anymore so got a new Motorola from Cox for $60 and all is better, have not 
had to reset the modem once. ( the router a couple of times) but the modem has 
been a rock.

At 04:28 PM 1/8/2006, Winterlight Poked the stick with:
>Do you guys with Verizon DSL have a reliable connection. I have COX cable 
>modem. The first five years it was great...never had a problem... but a year 
>ago I began having all sorts of problems. One day I can't send email, one day 
>I can't receive mail. Seems like every other Sunday at midnight eastern my 
>connection goes south... or like to day, I keep having to reset my modem and 
>even when connected I can't through to a lot of sites. It feels like I have 
>hollow bandwidth. I have had this sort of problem last until the middle of the 
>week and then it's OK for a few days until the next Sunday. Well, I have 
>had enough.
>
> I just checked the Verizon site and see that I can get better upload speeds 
> then I am getting now, and similar download for 25 per cent less money! So I 
> am thinking of giving it a try. Verizon DSL just uses a modem right? There is 
> not logging in software involved ...right?
>
>How reliable a service is it?

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Re: [H] Win XP Media Center

[Wayne Johnson]

At 07:09 PM 1/8/2006, Hunter, Gary typed:

Does anyone know of a list of supported TV tuner cards for media center.


 & the 
problem is that the only supported HDTV card is the ATI card & as 
Chris has mentioned it has all sorts of issues with MCE.  I'd rather 
use the MyHD MDP-120 card with it's own menuing system on a plain 
jane Xp system until MSFT can get more hardware supt for MCE.



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Ashland, OH, USA 44805
 

RE: [H] Verizon DSL

[Wayne Johnson]

At 07:15 PM 1/8/2006, AMDSpeed typed:

I've had nothing but great service with Verizon DSL at my place in Queens
NYC.


VZ DSL in the NYC area is very different than the rest of the 
country. I had it for a year & while it was ok overall their supt 
sucks like most places these days. I had a Westell modem/router all 
in one unit that was a POS but I was able to disable everything but 
the modem part & use my modified Linksys WRT54g instead for the 
router part. Anyhow VZ wanted me to continue to pay $29.95 for 
1.5m/.5 service when for $39.95 from the cable co. I get 5m/.5 
service so I went back to cable. What blows is that my cable co no 
longer has usenet service included & that winds up being an extra 
cost where as VZ usenet access was the best that had ever seen by an ISP.



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RE: [H] Win XP Media Center

[Chris Reeves]

In order for a TV Tuner to work within MCE, it must be a fully certified
hardware encoder.  So, you have to have a card that has certified MCE
drivers.  The Asus is just a WDM (soft) capture card, no support within MCE.




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> -Original Message-
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> [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hunter, Gary
> Sent: Sunday, January 08, 2006 6:09 PM
> To: 'The Hardware List'
> Subject: [H] Win XP Media Center
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Does anyone know of a list of supported TV tuner cards for media center. I
> have an Asus 7133 that is recognised by windows and works fine in third
> party apps but when I run media center it reports that no tuner card is
> installed.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Gary
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Re: [H] Verizon DSL

[Ben Ruset]

Very happy with Verizon DSL here. Can't wait for FIOS though. :)

AMDSpeed wrote:

I've had nothing but great service with Verizon DSL at my place in Queens
NYC. My girlfriend just switched over from Comcast in Pittsburgh to Verizon
DSL. Sorry, but Comcast blows chunks. Wouldn't allow any aftermarket router
to be used, shoddy service. I've been using Verizon for over 3 years now in
Queens and have had to reset the modem maybe once a year. I just switched to
the $15/month plan and the speed is quite acceptable. Only while downloading
large files such as MS updates or large files do you notice it, but it seems
the rest of the internet is slow enough that my connection is usually not
the bottleneck. I'm currently using Optimum Online and its great except the
$$$ so I'll be switching her also.

You'll need to use their software to setup the modem and initialize your
account, but afterwards, you don't need any extra software to access the
internet.

RE: [H] Verizon DSL

[AMDSpeed]

I've had nothing but great service with Verizon DSL at my place in Queens
NYC. My girlfriend just switched over from Comcast in Pittsburgh to Verizon
DSL. Sorry, but Comcast blows chunks. Wouldn't allow any aftermarket router
to be used, shoddy service. I've been using Verizon for over 3 years now in
Queens and have had to reset the modem maybe once a year. I just switched to
the $15/month plan and the speed is quite acceptable. Only while downloading
large files such as MS updates or large files do you notice it, but it seems
the rest of the internet is slow enough that my connection is usually not
the bottleneck. I'm currently using Optimum Online and its great except the
$$$ so I'll be switching her also.

You'll need to use their software to setup the modem and initialize your
account, but afterwards, you don't need any extra software to access the
internet.

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Winterlight
Sent: Sunday, January 08, 2006 6:29 PM
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Subject: [H] Verizon DSL

Do you guys with Verizon DSL have a reliable connection. I have COX cable 
modem. The first five years it was great...never had a problem... but a 
year ago I began having all sorts of problems. One day I can't send email, 
one day I can't receive mail. Seems like every other Sunday at midnight 
eastern my connection goes south... or like to day, I keep having to reset 
my modem and even when connected I can't through to a lot of sites. It 
feels like I have hollow bandwidth. I have had this sort of problem last 
until the middle of the week and then it's OK for a few days until the 
next Sunday. Well, I have had enough.

  I just checked the Verizon site and see that I can get better upload 
speeds then I am getting now, and similar download for 25 per cent less 
money! So I am thinking of giving it a try. Verizon DSL just uses a modem 
right? There is not logging in software involved ...right?

How reliable a service is it?

[H] Win XP Media Center

[Hunter, Gary]

 
Hi,

Does anyone know of a list of supported TV tuner cards for media center. I
have an Asus 7133 that is recognised by windows and works fine in third
party apps but when I run media center it reports that no tuner card is
installed.

Thanks

Gary
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[H] Verizon DSL

[Winterlight]

Do you guys with Verizon DSL have a reliable connection. I have COX cable 
modem. The first five years it was great...never had a problem... but a 
year ago I began having all sorts of problems. One day I can't send email, 
one day I can't receive mail. Seems like every other Sunday at midnight 
eastern my connection goes south... or like to day, I keep having to reset 
my modem and even when connected I can't through to a lot of sites. It 
feels like I have hollow bandwidth. I have had this sort of problem last 
until the middle of the week and then it's OK for a few days until the 
next Sunday. Well, I have had enough.


 I just checked the Verizon site and see that I can get better upload 
speeds then I am getting now, and similar download for 25 per cent less 
money! So I am thinking of giving it a try. Verizon DSL just uses a modem 
right? There is not logging in software involved ...right?


How reliable a service is it?

Re: [H] Remote desktop apps

[Al]

JRS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 
> There's also a commercial product called Kavoom, it's a software KVM.
> Dunno how the CPU usage is on that..
> 
> http://www.kavoom.biz/k/index.html

If you don't need the V, see:

http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/

free and great.

Al

Re: [H] Remote desktop apps

[JRS]

There's also a commercial product called Kavoom, it's a software KVM.
Dunno how the CPU usage is on that..

http://www.kavoom.biz/k/index.html





>>Currently I use TIghtVNC to control my HTPC over the LAN. Works great,
>>except that it seems to have a pretty high CPU usage, like 30-40%. 
>>This is fairly detrimental to a machine playing back Hi-Def xvid or
>>DVDs.  Is this a common problem with VNC?  Is there some setting that
>>I am missing?
>>
>>Has anyone tried the Remote Desktop built into Windows XP? Does it
>>have the same CPU issues?
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Re: [H] Remote desktop apps

[JRS]

Hmm  I just connected to my Win2K SNAP box with Real VNC and the CPU on
the NAS box was flipping back and forth between 3 and 4 percent CPU time
while idling.  When I open something, it spikes to 29-30 percent for a
brief second, but then drops again.  

That does not seem too awfully high and this is on real old CPQ box with
only a P2 600, so it's a slow PC.  It has 384megs of RAM, with an Adaptec
2400a running IDE drives as RAID5 I use for remote file storage.  

Since I only use it for file storage, I probably don't see CPU spikes like
you do with playing back video and such.



>>Currently I use TIghtVNC to control my HTPC over the LAN. Works great,
>>except that it seems to have a pretty high CPU usage, like 30-40%. 
>>This is fairly detrimental to a machine playing back Hi-Def xvid or
>>DVDs.  Is this a common problem with VNC?  Is there some setting that
>>I am missing?
>>
>>Has anyone tried the Remote Desktop built into Windows XP? Does it
>>have the same CPU issues?
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Re: [H] Remote desktop apps

[Wayne Johnson]

At 10:28 AM 1/8/2006, Brian Weeden typed:

Currently I use TIghtVNC to control my HTPC over the LAN. Works great,
except that it seems to have a pretty high CPU usage, like 30-40%.
This is fairly detrimental to a machine playing back Hi-Def xvid or
DVDs.  Is this a common problem with VNC?  Is there some setting that
I am missing?


I use [EMAIL PROTECTED] to do the same thing & yes the cpu usage is high. I 
use mine to start the various videos then I shut [EMAIL PROTECTED] down so 
it's not really an issue plus the MyHD card that I use handles all 
the video to the wide screen tv so the computer isn't doing all that much.



Has anyone tried the Remote Desktop built into Windows XP? Does it
have the same CPU issues?


I'm not much help here. I had security issues with Remote Desktop 
early on & haven't used it since. I have heard that the particular 
issue I was having has been fixed but I'm happy with [EMAIL PROTECTED]



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RE: [H] Recommendation on computer build

[Wayne Johnson]

At 12:55 AM 1/8/2006, AMDSpeed typed:

Correct. I don't need film quality material. Likely going to input video
using a firewire link from a MiniDV videocam. I guess I'll lean toward the
P4 solution. I think I can pick up a P4 chip on ebay for around $100. I can
actually use the Celeron in another board that has been collecting dust and
sell it off.

Will I still be encoding if I were just importing video from a MiniDV
camera? I thought the video was already recorded in MPEG format... I know
importing from an analog video source would mean very intensive CPU usage.

I know DIVX encoding and the like still utilizes quite a bit of cycles from
my Athlon 2.2Ghz 64 processor. I was hoping to bypass most of this
tediousness by using a MiniDV cam as the source.


I've been doing this stuff for years with a Digital8 & input to the 
computer via firewire is digital not analog & it's usually in raw 
format. Now you can have it converted to mpeg2 via software or you 
could get a Canopus card & it'll convert to mpeg2 on the fly. Some of 
the earlier apps leaned toward using Intel but some of the later ones 
have started leaning more to the center supporting both Intel & AMD 
processors. In any case I can bet you dollars to donuts that there 
shall at least be some editing & as soon as you touch one frame 
you're going to have to re-code the video. If it's in the correct 
format already then this won't take too long but if the video isn't 
because it's was left in the original format then you'll still have 
to encode it into mpeg2 not to mention convert that to a DVD's VOB format.


Believe me I thought I was just going to do this & that but when I 
got into it there was a whole lot more this & that to do. If she's 
just doing some training videos she may want to consider using an app 
like p2e [picturestoexe]. This app will convert many different still 
& video formats allowing you to combine them into one video that you 
can burn on a dvd.



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   Wayne D. Johnson
Ashland, OH, USA 44805
 

[H] Remote desktop apps

[Brian Weeden]

Currently I use TIghtVNC to control my HTPC over the LAN. Works great,
except that it seems to have a pretty high CPU usage, like 30-40%. 
This is fairly detrimental to a machine playing back Hi-Def xvid or
DVDs.  Is this a common problem with VNC?  Is there some setting that
I am missing?

Has anyone tried the Remote Desktop built into Windows XP? Does it
have the same CPU issues?

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Brian