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Well, I found a solution to my deinterlacing problem with the Kiddy Grade DVDs. Setting deinterlacing to “Motion adaptive” in the ATI control panel (I’ve got an X1950XT with Avivo) allows much better playback with Windows Media Player 10. In fact, it looks fantastic in comparison to anything I can get Media Player Classic to spit out.
I don’t like using Windows Media Player, but in this case, I’ll put up with it. 
Well, I wanted to see what Windows Home Server was like, and also took the opportunity to test whether or not my Vista desktop got faster network speeds reading from a WHS server as opposed to a Linux Samba server. Now as I said in my last post, read speeds were about 5-6Mb/s when copying from my Samba server to a Vista client. Surely I thought Microsoft’s own server OS would absolutely trample Samba in the mud.
Anyone want to take a guess at the speeds I got between my WHS test box and Vista? Same configuration, gigabit network all round, etc…. Continue reading ‘Windows Vista: Fucking with Windows Home Server?’