An article on Hack7MC caught my eye a couple of months ago, but I have only just got around to following up on it. The idea is to speed up the Media Browser plugin for Media Center by moving its library to a Cheap USB Flash drive, which hopefully offers much better performance than normal hard-disk drives. The first thing I did was test a couple of flash-based devices that I have against my desktop HardDrive…
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Multi disc albums in Media Center
I recently added my FLAC music collection to my Media Center box, but one of the last few things bugging me about the Media Center interface is that it does not respect the Disc Number. I prefer not to have a different album name for the second disc, and i also prefer to keep discs separate. Today I accidentally stumbled on a solution, thanks to a mis-tagging of a double-cd album.
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DVBLink 4.5 & Server 2012 media server
In the last 6 weeks 2 major updates have totally changed the media server landscape. DVBLink server 4.5 and Microsoft Windows Server 2012 in combination look to offer an ideal windows-platform for a home media server.
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Get Media Center 8 free
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 31st 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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Haali Media Splitter: Official Site Down
HTPC related sites and resources seem to be dropping like flies at the moment. First[intlink id=“1918” type=“post”]Media Center Studio disappeared[/intlink], then [intlink id=“2141” type=“post”]TheHTPC.net developed problems[/intlink], and now the official site for Haali Media Splitter is down. Fortunately the media splitter can still be downloaded from lots of other sites, and we will keep a mirror here in case other sites drop it. There are also alternatives, including the MPC-HC standalone codecs and LAV. Links to these are available on our[intlink id=“741” type=“page”]downloads[/intlink] page. Lets hope that this is the last in the recent series of HTPC related losses.
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Fix for Stark Covers crash on x64 systems
I’ve been having various issues running Stark Covers ever since I switched to Windows 7 x64. Today, after exploring I’ve discovered the following combination of fixes.
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Fixed: DVBLink media center playready message
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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Release: Media Browser 2.5.2 (Apollo)
Today Media Browser 2.5.2 codename Apollo was released.
The main new feature is the support for 3D movies. Otherwise this update doesn’t bring as many changes as some previous releases, but it is worth noting that Windows Vista is no longer supported.
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Media center basic codec tweaks
Following on from my [intlink id=“49” type=“post”]previous post listing details of the addins and apps[/intlink] that I use with my media center PC here are the details of the basic set of codec tweaks I use to enable maximum file compatiblity with DXVA support enabled…
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“Hi James I realise it has been a long while, but I just checked this on windows 11 (build 23H2)…”