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I think you might have to go with the way you are planning. The way you have it, is the way it would work in my system, which oddly enough is the way it works in reality! I just installed 0.8.5. They changed the way you can quit the app, from pressing the menu button in the main menu, and the pop up coming up, to holding the button and going to the Quit menu option. Also, when you pause a non streaming feature, it will tell you when it should...

Thanks for the advice SC. The movies are already in separate folders and added as separate sources, but Plex seems to throw them all together in the 'movies' view. The 'Videos' view follows the folder structure but doesn't have the nice fanart, descriptions etc. (unless I'm missing something?). I was also thinking of creating a separate profile 'kids' and leaving out the kids movies source in my main...

On my Samsung I can assign different inputs "labels" to each physical input. My problem was solved when I assigned "PC" to HDMI#1. So see if you have the same options. Overscan will fill the screen. Use DVD player and not front row. When I move the mouse to the top or bottom of the screen, the toolbars appear. Quote: Smithcraft on the 1.66GHz mini As I've mentioned http://stores.ebay.com/KAGA-COMPUTER...

Ok, after hours of try and errors i found in in the quick setup in the remote control of the tv that I can select the size of the screen in 16:9, 4:3, zoom, zoom 1 and the most interesting aspect ratio never tryed "just scan" it solve everything 1080p filling all the screen without switchresx or similar. thanks everybody for the help, coments and patient

Well a few days ago I decided to hook up my mini to use as an HTPC which has been doing wonderful. Shortly after i realized watching blu-ray movies from my external HD, i was getting a jumpy image on certain wide angle fast motion scenes. With a few helpers on this forum, my solution was to simply upgrade my 1.86 ghz cpu. So today I was doing some xmas shopping, I came across the home entertainment center over at an electronics place and...

i think the graphic card can not be changed _________________ 2.66ghz late 2009 6gb ram intel 80gb ssd second internal drive 640gb external super drive in a dvd enclosure. macmini 2.0ghz c2d 4gb ram 120 oem hdd 2007/2008 model 2 1.5tb seagate freeagent for macs 2 2 bay sans digital with 5 1tb disks

Smithcraft wrote: Extracting something has nothing to do with converting it to something else! SC In the beginning days I believe Handbrake was only a transcoder. You weren't able to extract content from a DVD with it. Now, I consider it to be a ripper and a transcoder (it extracts as well as converts). Please correct me if I'm wrong.

Sirolway wrote: Thanks - I'll give that a go Any disadvantages to this? e.g. lower display quality? Thanks again VGA is analog, If there are any disadvantages i doubt you will notice them. Unless you use a long cable, that may cause problems. 4'-6' would be fine. It is a HD input, & you should find the correct if not a close resolution using VGA. Your TV is 720P Number of Pixels: 1,049,088 (1,366 x 768) pixels...

Aargh-a-Knot wrote: I had sort-of-a realization recently... All this compressing in handbrake, all the hours of setting up the encodes, my computer pushed to the max overheating, is just stupid. I'm going to be kicking myself in two years when I go to watch a cinematic classic like Star Trek ripped from bluray, and then having all the blockiness imperfection show its ugly head on the screen. I should just be buying more hard drives and...

martano12 wrote: Fred76 great explanation. I used switchresx, as I told in the start is a pain. without overscan black borders. with it no menu bar and half dock available. I hope some day an easy app to solve this problem that I see is very frequent. Thank you! Did you check pixel size? Also the difference between VGA and HDMI ports? Each TV is a little different and it takes some experimentation to figure out how to match the Mac Mini...