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Originally posted by: Laserman

Still with the 3.4GHz single core machine, I'll be surprised if it plays back smoothly with really high bitrate h264 material - it *might* with deinterlacing and deblocking turned off.
Coreavc should be faster than the GPU assisted renderers with the possible exception of the new NVidia 8800.


Thanks for the info Laserman. I have all those apps installed but still no luck and i forgot to mention that mine is a dual core machine. I mistakingly wrote it was a pentium 4 but its actually a pentium d 3.2ghz. The pentium4 is the wifes one.

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Bitter several attempts, finally it plays perfectly with neroshowtime (with Coreavc), i've got all codecs and pacs ..but no sound, i've try everything..
(sempron 1.3ghz with nvidia 6600gt)..bizarre bizarre
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Post your graphedit results and we can see where the problem is.
Having all the apps installed is one thing, having them setup correctly is another, graphedit will tell us if that is the case.

From memory it didn't playback full speed on a PentiumD 3.0GHz, so you may be out of luck with the 3.2 but it might just make it over the line.
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Originally posted by: Karyudo
Originally posted by: digitalfreaknyc
Originally posted by: Karyudo
Lateral thinking: When will the GOUT turn up on HBO-HD (which I know is cappable)?


Wrong.

NONE of the channels are readily cappable. 5c will probably be "on" for all the premium channels.


Huh?? My brother caps from HBO-HD all the time. I also know that several people have dumped Cinemax HD to D-VHS. So if there's any 5C, it's "copy once" at worst. And there is evidence that there's actually no 5C.


DVHS is fine. You can't do it to a PC if 5c is enabled in your area. There are very few places where it isn't at this point.
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nevermind...
Fez: I am so excited about Star Whores.
Hyde: Fezzy, man, it's Star Wars.
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Originally posted by: tweaker
So Bountyhunter, you were to record the movies on your DVR, off of Cinemax, despite the 5c encryption?

Yeah, I haven't the slightest clue as to what you are talking about...all I did was hit the "record" button and everything came out fine. I'm actually home for Thanksgiving and I watched ESB last night...it looks stunning.

Please tell me I'm not the only one who actually bothered to record these films...cause I'm a total noob, and if I'm your only hope then we are all pretty much screwed. Really.
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Aww dude, somehow you just have to make this available to the wider community.

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Originally posted by: BountyHunter
Please tell me I'm not the only one who actually bothered to record these films...cause I'm a total noob, and if I'm your only hope then we are all pretty much screwed. Really.


First of all, you don't have to do anything. It's your PVR, it's your subscription, it's your time. So as much as any of the rest of us want to get a copy (and I'm on that list, of course), if we really wanted it that bad, we'd sign up our damn selves. Or, as in the case of so many of us who don't live in the US, we'd just learn to live without.

If, on the other hand, you'd like to take a shot at getting this going, I guess the first -- and possibly only -- thing you'd have to do is to check whether 5C is enabled on your HD-PVR. Or, if you indicate where you are and what model PVR you're using, maybe others can research that for you.

If it turns out there's no 5C, then things start to get fun!

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Originally posted by: Karyudo
Originally posted by: BountyHunter
Please tell me I'm not the only one who actually bothered to record these films...cause I'm a total noob, and if I'm your only hope then we are all pretty much screwed. Really.


First of all, you don't have to do anything. It's your PVR, it's your subscription, it's your time. So as much as any of the rest of us want to get a copy (and I'm on that list, of course), if we really wanted it that bad, we'd sign up our damn selves. Or, as in the case of so many of us who don't live in the US, we'd just learn to live without.

If, on the other hand, you'd like to take a shot at getting this going, I guess the first -- and possibly only -- thing you'd have to do is to check whether 5C is enabled on your HD-PVR. Or, if you indicate where you are and what model PVR you're using, maybe others can research that for you.

If it turns out there's no 5C, then things start to get fun!


Dude, you really have no idea what you're talking about. It has nothing to do with his PVR. It's encoded by the cable company.
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Originally posted by: digitalfreaknyc
Dude, you really have no idea what you're talking about. It has nothing to do with his PVR. It's encoded by the cable company.


Yes, and where does that manifest itself? Right: at the PVR. Why get all esoteric about 5C being part of the incoming bitstream, when it's whether or not the PVR will dump the stuff out via 1394 (for whatever reason) that matters? Do you really think that irrelevant technical distinction makes any difference to a self-professed noob? He's got a PVR that will either allow or disallow the trilogy out via 1394, end of story.

I suggested posting the model of PVR and the location, which should determine which cable company, and whether or not they have a history of using 5C encryption on Cinemax. With the location and model, one could also do a very thorough search (on AVS Forum, say) to find out exactly what the deal is. There are a lot of clever HD-capping people out there, and most of them are not on this forum.

Might I remind you, DFnyc, you were wrong about being able to cap HBO-HD. So I don't think you're in such a good position to be deciding who "really [has] no idea what you're talking about." Let's keep it civil, shall we? And focus on determining whether or not it's ever going to be possible to find a 5C-less cap of our fave trilogy in HD from Cinemax?

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Why are you so interested in ripping these American broadcasts of Star Wars? The German HD broadcasts are of much higher quality (higher bitrate and MPEG-4 encoding) and being satellite broadcasts, they can easily be recorded on the computer (DVB-S PCI tuners). Also, slowing down the 25fps broadcast by 4% is much less error-prone than IVTCing the 30fps interlaced broadcast (the IVTC pattern may change). You can get high-quality audio from the Laserdisc or DVD releases. Although you'll need to replace the Krieg der Sterne texts :/

edit: I imagine there are hacks for cable boxes similar to region-free hacks for dvd players to disable 5c restrictions.
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Originally posted by: totsugeki
Why are you so interested in ripping these American broadcasts of Star Wars? [...] the Krieg der Sterne texts :/
You answered your own question!

edit: I imagine there are hacks for cable boxes similar to region-free hacks for dvd players to disable 5c restrictions.

Well, then I think you'd be wrong. I haven't heard of that sort of wizardry being available, at least not yet. I haven't looked too hard for it, though, so you may be right. DFnyc will probably confirm that there is no solution for his box, at the very least.

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Why is it a problem that the crawl is in german? Most of us know the crawl by heart anyways.


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Originally posted by: Karyudo
Originally posted by: digitalfreaknyc
Dude, you really have no idea what you're talking about. It has nothing to do with his PVR. It's encoded by the cable company.


Yes, and where does that manifest itself? Right: at the PVR. Why get all esoteric about 5C being part of the incoming bitstream, when it's whether or not the PVR will dump the stuff out via 1394 (for whatever reason) that matters? Do you really think that irrelevant technical distinction makes any difference to a self-professed noob? He's got a PVR that will either allow or disallow the trilogy out via 1394, end of story.

I suggested posting the model of PVR and the location, which should determine which cable company, and whether or not they have a history of using 5C encryption on Cinemax. With the location and model, one could also do a very thorough search (on AVS Forum, say) to find out exactly what the deal is. There are a lot of clever HD-capping people out there, and most of them are not on this forum.

Might I remind you, DFnyc, you were wrong about being able to cap HBO-HD. So I don't think you're in such a good position to be deciding who "really [has] no idea what you're talking about." Let's keep it civil, shall we? And focus on determining whether or not it's ever going to be possible to find a 5C-less cap of our fave trilogy in HD from Cinemax?


I was not wrong, to be honest. I never said it's impossible. MOST cable movie channels have the encryption on them.

Civil? How about logical? you get logical and i'll get civil. You really don't know what you're talking about. It doesn't manifest itself at the DVR. The model has nothing to do with it. It has everything to do with the cable company and the location. THAT is the origin. They decide whether it's turned on or off.

And btw...i wouldn't touch the German broadcast. Watching any Star Wars movie with PAL speed-up is atrocious.

And do we know if the original broadcast was in MPEG4? I'm 95% sure it wasn't. AFAIK, all broadcast HD would be MPEG2. If you're finding other versions, it's because people have re-compressed it. So that wouldn't be an advantage.

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Can we please not turn this discussion into an argument over who knows more.


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Alright...I really want to help out so what exact info do you need from me, if any?
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Originally posted by: BountyHunter
Alright...I really want to help out so what exact info do you need from me, if any?


Bountyhunter,

Unless your DVR has firewire out and you know how to run it from the DVR to your PC plus be able to rip the TS files from the DVR, I don't think you'll be able to handle it. The resulting file will probably be about 12-15GB. It's not a quick one-shot deal.
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Originally posted by: digitalfreaknyc
Originally posted by: BountyHunter
Alright...I really want to help out so what exact info do you need from me, if any?


Bountyhunter,

Unless your DVR has firewire out and you know how to run it from the DVR to your PC plus be able to rip the TS files from the DVR, I don't think you'll be able to handle it. The resulting file will probably be about 12-15GB. It's not a quick one-shot deal.


Firewire? The outputs I see are USB and Ethernet and SATA...

BTW - I have 16.7 free GB if that helps...

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What is the make and model number of your PVR if you don't mind?

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Originally posted by: vbangle
What is the make and model number of your PVR if you don't mind?
MOTOROLA DCT3412 I (I have Comcast for a cable company if that helps)

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http://web.mydns.net.nz/www.cvml.co.nz/bobafeta/misc/Motorola_3412.jpg

Does this look about right?

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Do you have a firewire (IEEE 1394) Port on your PC?

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Originally posted by: boba feta
Do you have a firewire (IEEE 1394) Port on your PC?
On my PC? No.
On my notebook? Well, I have a Dell Inspiron 9100...something tells me you would know better than I would, lol.