My home theatre is installed and working now I need an HTPC. I've been reading several posts here and elsewhere but it just makes me more confused.
Basicly I just want smooth upscaling of dvd's (480) AND HD 1080 images from original source (disk) and mkv (h.264). The htpc shall connect to a onkyo wich can handle plenty of audio streams.
Now I got confused in 'how to get everything send right to the onkyo?'
I read in the sticky :
Motherboard :
This means motherboards with this chipset have HDMI onboard that allows sending video+audio?
Whats the advantage of the new ati 5xxx cards?
(I don't want to play games on the htpc, I just want to have a good HD audio+video experience when watching movies)
So in the end is there a good motherboard that allows gpu hd decoding + sending audio over hdmi (hdcp+pap) and does the job well? Or do I realy need some specific hardware for this (the new ati 5xxx)?
Basicly I just want smooth upscaling of dvd's (480) AND HD 1080 images from original source (disk) and mkv (h.264). The htpc shall connect to a onkyo wich can handle plenty of audio streams.
Now I got confused in 'how to get everything send right to the onkyo?'
I read in the sticky :
Motherboard :
Intel 9300/9400
These chipsets will handle 7.1 LPCM over HDMI ...
This means motherboards with this chipset have HDMI onboard that allows sending video+audio?
Whats the advantage of the new ati 5xxx cards?
(I don't want to play games on the htpc, I just want to have a good HD audio+video experience when watching movies)
So in the end is there a good motherboard that allows gpu hd decoding + sending audio over hdmi (hdcp+pap) and does the job well? Or do I realy need some specific hardware for this (the new ati 5xxx)?