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Title: What is Shell Integration, and about Video card hardware acceleration
Post by: CountryBumkin on July 31, 2011, 04:28:26 pm
I am looking through the settings and reading the Wiki, but I have come across two settings that are not explained.

1) Under Tools>General, there is a setting "Enable Shell Intergration". What does this do? It is currently unchecked

2 Under Tools>General>Video Card, there is a setting for Hardware accelerated graphics.
There are four choices;
a) Auto, b) Low quality (mobile or budget),  c) medium (consumer grade hardware), d) Highest Quality (High-end hardware).
I use JRiver for viewing my DVD and Blu-ray rips 90% of the time. I have two systems, one is Core 2 Duo E8400 with Nvidia GT440, the other is Intel i5-2500K with the HD3000 GPU.  What do I set this to for these two computers?
 
Title: Re: What is Shell Integration, and about Video card hardware acceleration
Post by: MrC on July 31, 2011, 04:41:48 pm
Quote from: CountryBumkin on July 31, 2011, 04:28:26 pm
I am looking through the settings and reading the Wiki, but I have come across two settings that are not explained.

1) Under Tools>General, there is a setting "Enable Shell Intergration". What does this do? It is currently unchecked

I can help on (1):

This enables right-click options in Windows Explorer for Media Center, allowing Add to Playing Now, Import, etc.
Title: Re: What is Shell Integration, and about Video card hardware acceleration
Post by: jmone on July 31, 2011, 04:58:22 pm
Quote from: CountryBumkin on July 31, 2011, 04:28:26 pm
2 Under Tools>General>Video Card, there is a setting for Hardware accelerated graphics.
There are four choices;
a) Auto, b) Low quality (mobile or budget),  c) medium (consumer grade hardware), d) Highest Quality (High-end hardware).
I use JRiver for viewing my DVD and Blu-ray rips 90% of the time. I have two systems, one is Core 2 Duo E8400 with Nvidia GT440, the other is Intel i5-2500K with the HD3000 GPU.  What do I set this to for these two computers?
 

These settings only change how the MC User Interfaces are rendered NOT how video is played back.  You can just leave it as on Auto normally.  There is ongoing discussion about HW Acceleration for Video....
Title: Re: What is Shell Integration, and about Video card hardware acceleration
Post by: MrC on July 31, 2011, 05:29:15 pm
Better?

http://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/Shell_Integration (http://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/Shell_Integration)