Posts Tagged: media center

0How to move recorded TV from Media Center to Kodi

Posted με & κατατεθεί υπό Kodi, Windows Media Center.

A few months ago I finally gave up on Win­dows Media Cen­ter and switched my home media setup to Kodi. After some early chal­lenges I am now mostly happy with my new setup, and today I finally decided to migrate a large col­lec­tion of old recor­ded TV from MCE to Kodi.
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0DVB LogicFixed: DVBLink MCE Client first tune fail

Που δημοσιεύθηκε με & κατατεθεί υπό Windows Media Center. Τελευταία ενημέρωση .

One of my many HTPC cli­ents has had a strange prob­lem — the first time it is tuned into a chan­nel it fails with the com­mon (and mean­ing­less) Play Ready error. Chan­ging chan­nel once always seems to bring it back to life how­ever. After much dig­ging around I finally found the very straight­for­ward solution
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0DVB LogicFixed: DVBLink media center playready message

Που δημοσιεύθηκε με & κατατεθεί υπό Windows Media Center. Τελευταία ενημέρωση .

I’ve been using DVBLink to share TV around my home for sev­er­al years. Of all the issues with it, the most dreaded is the “Play Ready” error on Win­dows Media Cen­ter cli­ents. The prob­lem is this error mes­sage is mean­ing­less — it is gen­er­ated by Media Cen­ter, and just means it can­’t get a sig­nal from the tuner. The fail­ure could be any­where behind the scenes. Recently my 2 main cli­ents star­ted throw­ing this error com­pletely out of the blue.
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0Media Player Classic - Home Cinema LogoPlay BluRays and DVD’s in MediaCenter with MPC-HC

Που δημοσιεύθηκε με & κατατεθεί υπό Windows Media Center. Τελευταία ενημέρωση .

I’ve long run Win­dows Media Cen­ter on my HTPCs in com­bin­a­tion with DVBLink and Medi­aB­rowser. How­ever, recently we have been watch­ing more phys­ic­al disks than in the past, and I have found vari­ous issues with Media Cen­ter. Usu­ally I have MPC-HC con­figured as an extern­al play­er, but doing this for phys­ic­al disks proved less than simple. Even­tu­ally how­ever, I have man­aged to get it work­ing flawlessly.

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1Media Player Classic - Home Cinema LogoHow to set remote control jump keys for MPC-HC

Posted με & κατατεθεί υπό Windows Media Center.

As I’ve doc­u­mented in the past, I have sev­er­al HTPC’s run­ning Win­dows Media Cen­ter. I also use Medi­aB­rowser for TV series and movies ripped from disk. I’ve found that Medi­aB­rowser works much bet­ter with an extern­al play­er than the intern­al play­er — per­form­ance seems to be super­i­or — so I use Media Play­er Clas­sic Home Cinema. I also have sev­er­al Media Cen­ter remote con­trols for use with the vari­ous HTPCs, and one of the most fre­quently used pairs of but­tons are the “jump” or “skip” but­tons which in media cen­ter jump the cur­rent play­back for­ward by 30 seconds or back by 30 seconds. This is really handy for skip­ping adverts in recor­ded TV.  How­ever, under default install­a­tion set­tings these keys don’t work when play­ing videos in MPC-HC.  After much tri­al and error I finally figured out the cor­rect configuration

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0Windows Media Center eHome LogoGet Media Center 8 free

Posted με & κατατεθεί υπό Windows Media Center.

If you’ve got Win­dows 8 Pro, and wish to add Media Cen­ter to it you need a key from Microsoft. In future this wont be free, but you can get one free until 31αγ Jan 2013 thanks to a Microsoft offer.  I have registered for mine, even though I don’t run Win­dows 8 because I may want to use it in future so why not!

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0Windows Media Center eHome LogoMedia Center Themer 1.45

Που δημοσιεύθηκε με & κατατεθεί υπό Windows Media Center. Τελευταία ενημέρωση .

Media Cen­ter Themer 1.45 has been released. This finally brings sup­port for adding items to built-in menus, mak­ing full Media Cen­ter menu cus­tom­isa­tion pos­sible. v1.45 is also com­pat­ible with Win­dows 8. This finally releg­ates Media Cen­ter Stu­dio to history.

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0Media Browser LogoUpdates: MediaBrowser 2.6 and TunerFreeMCE 5.0.8

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In the last few days my 2 favour­ite plu­gins for Media Cen­ter have been updated. I highly recom­mend installing both updates — Whilst Tuner­Free­MCE has only had a minor ver­sion update, Media Browser has added sev­er­al sig­ni­fic­ant new features.
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0windows 8 logoThree more strikes against Windows 8

Posted με & κατατεθεί υπό Νέα, Windows.

In case the Metro UI isn’t[int­link id=“2543” type=“post”]repellent[/intlink] enough, Microsoft have admit­ted 3 more things that should make any­one con­sid­er­ing Win­dows 8 think twice.… Διαβάστε ολόκληρο το άρθρο

1Windows Media Center eHome LogoSolution to Media Center Library Error

Posted με & κατατεθεί υπό Windows Media Center.

A couple of days ago I star­ted get­ting an error on my HTPC when I tried to change lib­rary loc­a­tions — either adding or remov­ing. Media Cen­ter shows the error which says “A neces­sary com­pon­ent of win­dows media cen­ter did not start prop­erly. Restart win­dows media cen­ter”. I under­stand this error can also affect Media Cen­ter Extenders… Διαβάστε ολόκληρο το άρθρο