jbretsch wrote:P3rv3rt B3ar, what are the benefits of routing the external sources through your PC as oppose to directly to the projector? Do you use the PC for upscaling?
Notice thought that i do both, direct to projector and trough comp, and change between them whichever is more advantageous for particular application. Im not yet doing much of picture processing (except some minor corrections with avisynth and dscaler filter), but i will be investigating possibilities in future (my setup is rather young and theres so many things on to do list
). In my case key factors for routing trough computer were not really picture quality enchanments, but these:
1. Possibility to mix video, without expensive video mixer! Currently im just doing transitions when source is changed. So for example while playing music videos or trailers even ones are played from changer and odd ones from HDD, so theres dissolve in video while there X-fade in music! simply the coolnes factor of this is enough, in my books, to forgive the quality loss, inherent from routing trough comp... in other more quality critical applications, like watching movie, i just stick with direct connection. So this is the reason i have self written program called VeeJay to preprogram everything for avisynth. First i planned to use dshow graoh to perform task of mixing, but however hard i tried i couldnt find reasonably priced suitable video mixing filters... so i turned to avisynth, and in retrospective ruoting everything trough it seems like really good idea. I plan to release VeeJay in distant future for other xlobby users with 777ES to abuse.
2. First i didnt plan to have video on touchscreen at all, but it came apparent that having it in part of screen has its advantages... (debugging system, casual viewing of music videos, or while waiting something to start, see if anything good is on, etc... so i dont have to necessarely launch projector for these purposes) so i added video window to touchscreen, but it would look stupid if only internal video sources would play on it, right? so inputting external sources was must.
3. I have quite a lot of DVDs, among them are few, which i have bought from journeys, which dont have any language i understand (and if we consider the fact that not all my visitors are 100% comfy with english and that i order lot of foreign DVDs online, amount of gibberish DVDs is soon way more than i have energy to sacrifice on ripping them to HDD), so adding subs externally of player becomes a necessity, and lets face it, what else could perform that task but HTPC, now only if somebody could automate sub fetching from net to xlobby, that would be so sweet!
by Dread on Sun Sep 24, 2006 8:25 pm