Placeshifter: VMR9/Purevideo

[lobosrul]

I'm wondering if this is a bug or, by design. I cannot set placeshifter to use VMR9 mode, nor can I get it to use nvidia purevideo decoders, or AC3 for sound.

Any way I can do this? Right now it works fine, but its basicly pegging one of my CPU core's during HDTV playback (SageTVPlayer.exe). Also I'd be perfectly happy with overlay mode, I just want to use hardware video decoding, and AC3 filter for sound.

Note: Im using the latest beta.

[stanger89]

That's one of the limitations of the Placeshifter, and what Client is for.

[GKusnick]

That's by design. Placeshifter is meant to be the portable client for use on any PC anywhere on the Internet. As such it's completely self-contained, with no reliance on particular hardware features or external decoder software.

For full playback configurability, use SageTVClient.

[lobosrul]

Hmm, thats kind of dissapointing. Im using it for PBP* (right now actually). It works ok, just the sound on the place shifter isnt anywhere near the volume of SageTV. I havent tested it yet, but I doubt it decodes 5.1 audio as well as AC3 filter.

PBP = picture by picture.