Here are some examples for you:
Under User Manual, Setting up media Center, Options--is the Audio section. It is empty. If you instead go to MAIN TOPIC INDEX you can find a few sections related to audio. None of them expressly state that decoding is taking place to linear PCM--but I can make that assumption.
Under the tree and view settings is the place to turn off the border around thumbnails. Here is the manual section:http://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/Tree_%26_View_Settings. Guess what? It doesn't even mention this.
I'm not going to make any claim that the Wiki is awesome. It has a lot of great stuff, though it can certainly be hit-or-miss.
I will say, however, that almost the
entire section under User Manual (which is linked in the left-hand nav) is
very old and mostly useless. That was from an effort done to migrate from the old online help manual they used to do way back in the old days, I think. It should be removed or marked as deprecated (or fixed). Someone has been working on it lately, but it looks like it is only certain specific sections (and even that was over a year ago).
The Main Topic Index is where the current stuff is located.
Posting to multiple topics would just clutter the forum even more and make it difficult to get back to my threads and find the answers. It seems there are a bunch of people who can't seem to figure your out your software either.
Generally, I agree with Jim. I mean... We're kinda going here, and I'm trying to help you, so I've been reading this topic. However, I will say that... If the topic had just been "New to J.R. - I need help" (and hadn't included the other stuff), I might very well not have ever opened the topic. I explain why here:
http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=90262.msg619879#msg619879It does work best if unrelated things aren't lumped together, generally.
System has an Intel Graphics HD 4400
Intel Graphics HD 4000 series parts are too slow for Red October HQ without modifying the defaults (
not for the feint of heart). Hendrik did include in a thread somewhere for MC20 that one of his goals is to make additional profiles for ROHQ (or a RO Medium Quality or something similar). Targeting HD 4000-class hardware would probably be the main goal of this effort.
So, that should get better (and if you buy now, it is a license for MC20 that also works with MC19 that you receive, so no worries there).
For now, Red October Standard is a similar decoding system to what you'd get with XBMC and most other players. It isn't bad at all, just not as crazy-nice as ROHQ. I'd go with that, and get that working first.
It should really work out of the box, though. The tearing, Hardware Acceleration failing, and fact that it was locking up the system all leads me to believe that your GPU driver is borked up in some way.
To be clear, MC cannot (as in, Windows does not give any user-land application the power to) lock up the entire system. If that happens it MUST BE: drivers, core OS, or hardware.
Also, given that I know Intel GPU drivers to be OFTEN troublesome (not just with MC, with a wide swath of things), I think you need to update, or remove and reinstall, your Intel GPU drivers. I have the link in the Troubleshooting Guide here:
http://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/Troubleshooting_DriversSo, try that. If you haven't updated them recently, or especially if you're using Microsoft-provided ones from Windows Update, then that is likely the issue.