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I have the iCore 5 650, Windows 7, TMT3, and all the required ingredientss.

The new intel iCore 3 & 5 do have the GPU and audio processing on the CPU. (iCore 7 no) They came out beginning of the year. And with the proper playback software you can by pass the windows mixer and bitstream to your AVR processor. For BluRay, TMT3, WinDVD 2010, and others, for Music, FDDSHow and other software (ithink, on the music part)

The iCore CPUs were buildt just for HTPCs and can process any current HD video file format you can throw at it easily with the proper software setup correctly

You mean Core i3 and i5. Since we're going around correcting each other.

I stand corrected.

I asked about "Bitstreaming Music thru the Windows Media Center interface over on the Core "i" thread over at AVS. and the below is the responses I got, in the first few minutes.


Originally Posted by wordgasm
Can you "bitstream" music (bypass the windows mixer) with the icore? If so what software do you need, I'm running wma lossless

Thanks

Jeff

You need to use a WASAPI renderer to bypass the mixer.
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Originally Posted by babgvant
You need to use a WASAPI renderer to bypass the mixer.

SOrry I've been focusing all my time on bitstreaming BluRay lately and haven't researched the music side. Will a WASAPI play thru the Media Center interface (WMP). Did a quick google on WASAPI renderer and don't see anything about it with WMC

Thanks

Jeff


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Originally Posted by wordgasm
SOrry I've been focusing all my time on bitstreaming BluRay lately and haven't researched the music side. Will a WASAPI play thru the Media Center interface (WMP). Did a quick google on WASAPI renderer and don't see anything about it with WMC

Thanks

Jeff

You can use Reclock and the MPC-HC audio renderers with WMC, but Reclock breaks live TV and the last time I used the MPC-HC renderer it was pretty beta.__________________

Originally Posted by babgvant
You can use Reclock and the MPC-HC audio renderers with WMC, but Reclock breaks live TV and the last time I used the MPC-HC renderer it was pretty beta.

I should add that it's been a few months since I looked at the MPC-HC renderer. It could be much better now.

It's a shame that MC doesn't ship with an optional WASAPI renderer.
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Hmm... thinking on this, if windows captures and remixes all audio, even from the most recent AMD graphics cards, would'nt that break HDCP?

This is exactly why I gave up on my HTPC. Its a full time job keeping up on what isn't working and how.

HTPCs are getting much closer to not being such a pain. I've been playing with them for years. For me sticking with mainstream software and hardware, and not using everything trick in the book (trying to customize every interface, menu, leading edge software, drivers, codecs, renderers, etc.) makes mine much more reliable. I just rdp in about once a month and update my video drivers and anydvd. Most of the time these days it just works for music, Bluray with bitstreaming and OTA TV.

For Bluray you can bypass the windows mixer with commercial software players. For TV and music, thru WMC, then die hard ones are figuring it out as we speak, and I'll jump on board when they have it all worked out and reliable. With that said, TV and Music, thru the mixer sounds incredible for me. So I'm in no hurry, but will like it when it's available.

Audio thru the mixer (or not thru the mixer) does not break HDCP.

The core "i", bitstream, some ATI cards and the Xonar Audio card (with HDMI pass thru on the card) I have one of these Xonars available I moved on to Core i

OK, I did some reading on Anandtech and it looks like AMD is still not bitstreaming with their current gen on board graphics. The 890GX release looks to be a maintenance release as a bridge to their APU solution. It looks like that is going to happen in 2011 and it will be based on the current 5x series gpu.

Looks like Intel has made big gains with the i5 chip. The actually get similar performance to ATI's current onboard solution, which is a huge leap in performance from a year ago.

I'm thinking that the AMD 5x cards must do proper bitstreaming.