Latest update : Last night, my video card (Nvidia 6200 AGP 256MB )died on me. Meaning that although stuff is probably still taping, I can't get any output to the TV. I popped in the old graphics card the computer came with, and tried to get my normal one working ... no love.
I think I'm going to uninstall all NVidia drivers tonight, send the card back for an RMA, and try to get my old one working in the interm. Very frustrating, mostly because I've been using XBMC lately (XBox Media Center for Windows) and there's a program to control it from the iPod Touch that I was looking into. Also I just added a 300GB drive for $50.
XMBC has come a long way, huh? I set it up for my bro on his Xbox back in the day, and it was pretty slick. It's great they've got it going cross-platform now. You like it?
yeah. it's on my xbox too but because my xbox was never online (no ethernet to my living room, and too cheap to buy the wireless adapter) it didn't serve much purpose to me.
now that i have it for my media center pc, i get it. it's awesome for managing tons of video files and monitoring folders. I even see how it works over the network.
i do see some probs with it that aren't as good as the xbox version. like, when i pause it, get something to drink and come back, the video is jumpy and pixely (not a word, i know) when I unpause it. not sure why. maybe the newest alpha fixes that. i'll try it soon.