Trying to use 3400 as a PlaceShifter client

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I think I have a DirectX issue, but i'm not sure. I finally upgraded to V5.0 last night, and i'm curious whether that cheap Fujitsu 3400 tablet PC of mine can cut it as a SageTV placeshifter client. If anything will let me watch TV on it, placeshifter will, as it allows you to dial back the PQ/etc settings. It's a seriously slow machine [P3-400, 192MB RAM, ancient graphics card], as it was only intended to be a wallmounted mzone control panel, but re-use would be awesome. These things are down to $160 on eBay now, I could put one in a few other rooms where a TV doesn't make sense but a flat screen would. [plus this dude on the CQC forum figured out how to mount it mostly inwall, so it could be a flushmount.

Ok so here's the issue: I can't get the Sage OSD and the video to show up at the same time.

1) If I directly execute the SageTVplayer program, i can get the video to show up. However, I can't take advantage of Sage's automatic-determination of the right settings/etc as that's the command line program.
2) If I go via the standard Sage Placeshifter UI, I can get the OSD to show up, but not the video.

I just upgraded to the latest DirectX, but that didn't help. I've been poking around to see what else I can try, but i'm not sure what to try.

Any ideas?

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Do you know the video chipsets?

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Device Manager says this is a "Trident Video Accelerator 9525DVD".

This is the techspecs page for the 3400, and this is what google reported about that driver:

Trident Video Accelerator 9525DVD 5.6047.22_n7 Publisher's Description
Trident Video Accelerator 9525DVD 5.6047.22_n7: Trident Video Accelerator 9525DVD 5.6050.22_2: The Cyber9525DVD is Trident's low-power 2D/3D graphics solution embedded with 2.5 MB of on-chip SDRAM memory and interfaces to industry-standard AGP-2X bus. Cyber9525DVD combines Trident's 2D/3D graphics core (3DImage975) and 2.5 MB of 128-bit wide on-chip SDRAM to deliver numerous features.

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Originally Posted by jds23

I would love to get into CQC, but feel like it will takeover my life!

Interestingly enough, the more I get into CQC and Home Automation, the more I realize I really do live in a 96 yr old house, with a 96 yr old design/etc. The "taking over of my life" is certainly true, but I rarely spend a ton of time on the PC like I did when I was initially setting up the HTPC system. The CQC stuff doesn't take that much time at all - getting everything else in a place to hook into it, well, that's another story.

Check out the latest post on my blog - my "discretionary" time today was primarily spent strengthening and rerunning some of my telco lines, as I realized how massively insecure our entire neighborhood is. We all have these nice security systems, but the phone lines come into the houses at 3-5' off the ground so apparently even the teenage punk kid robbers know to cut them with a utility knife before breaking in.

Of course, once that's all done and I have the telco wiring hooked up to the security system and CQC, I'll have to create a CQC command to not ring the doorbell or let the telephone ring if Sage is on and i'm watching a scifi show or DVD. Well, maybe i'll have a toggle button that allows me to choose DoNotDisturb mode vs "Telephone is fine, but no door".

Hmmm. Or perhaps "if I'm watching a first-run episode and the door rings, then put Sage into half-screen mode and pull up a shot of the front door camera on the other half of the screen, and let me use the remote to decide whether to turn off the doorbell and continue Sage or pause while I get up and deal.

Ok, you're right, perhaps the coolness factor may take over my life "a little" once I get the physical infrastructure done