The trial started with DB. She liked the features, the easy recording and the pause, go back features of the TV. The remote on the smartphone couldn't be tried as it needed the HTPC to be connected to the LAN. Only Wifi is available in the living room, no wifi on the HTPC. Godda cable it or fit a wifi dongle.
The biggest problem is that the TV and Video play is distorted in SD (DVB-T) but OK in HD (DVB-T2). Distortion is at the edges like it is overstretched. If you have a circle in the middle of the picture, at the edge it will be egg shaped. This shows up particularly badly when the picture is panning. I have tried a few settings in WMC itself and also in the Intel Video driver without any success. The HD picture is fine, not distorted but flickers every second or so - not good.
I have download VLC a free opensource media player with a good reputation. This plays the SD with no distortion and the HD with no flicker. So what do you conclude from that? Driver, surely both packages will use the same Video driver on the hdmi port! Codec's, could be using different codecs thats for sure. Some other WMC issue?
Tomorrow, I will try and see if I can try some other options to find where the setting/problem is. I will try
1. Running over VGA instead of hdmi
2. Trying Windows Media Player, which may use the same codec and drivers as WMC.
3. Trying WMC playing from my laptop to the same TV, both hdmi and VGA
Lets see what that reveals.
The graphics is Intel HD4000 running onboard the Asus P8Z77 MoBo
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