I’m finally happy with my HTPC project. I’ve got all my movies, videos, pictures, and music on the 1.5TB hardware RAID5 that I setup (3x 750gb WD Caviar Blacks). I can watch, record, and timeshift TV. It’s working great! I’m actually quite happy with Windows 7 (surprisingly). Only a few problems remain…
I’m using my Windows 7 machine as a file server in addition to it being my Media Center. I’m mounting a Samba (smb) share using CIFS from my Linux server so I can synchronize files using rsync. However, I ran into a problem after using the mounted share for a small amount of time. I found a simple solution after a bit of research.
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I recently upgraded to Windows 7, mainly for the upgrades to Windows Media Center. One problem I discovered was with digital audio from HD channels and DVDs/Blu-Ray discs. I wasn’t able to control the volume using the media center volume (system volume). I could only adjust the volume on my stereo. I found an article on the Hack Windows 7 Media Center site that discusses how to pipe all audio through AC3Filter to enable adjusting gain and using an equalizer before the audio is output from the machine.
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