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re: Severely Confused - The state of Media Center

Athursby — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 16:13:03 GMT

I watched and did a live talk show during the keynote last night and that was the first thing out of my mouth once I realized they were wrapping it up.

Other than a date for the Windows 7 beta, and maybe some of the mobile stuff, was there anything new shown? Most if not all of the Xbox stuff was already out there, and as said above, not a mention of Media Center.

It seems like MC is moving in the right direction with the work that Stuart has been doing as far as codec support and what not. Toshiba announces TVs with the extender built in as well. You'd think this would have at least made the keynote.

re: Severely Confused - The state of Media Center

mabrown — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 15:32:37 GMT

Sage really isn't an option for me because of no cablecard support. Also I'm not disappointed with Media Center itself, just Microsoft in the way they've been handling it. I love Vista Media Center and Windows 7 Media Center looks to be even better, I'm just stumped as to why they didn't use CES to show it off.

re: Severely Confused - The state of Media Center

TheChief — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 15:24:36 GMT

Every passing release tempts me more and more towards SageTV, which only ever seems to get positive press...

re: Severely Confused - The state of Media Center

cw-kid — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 15:22:33 GMT

I thought the same thing as well, why was there no Media Center demo ?

re: Awesome Video of Media Center Evolution

cw-kid — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 05:21:18 GMT

You were right it was a good video! at the end it says "Any Time Anywhere" Webguide ?

re: Awesome Video of Media Center Evolution

cw-kid — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 05:15:16 GMT

Mike I read this here first on your blog, just to let you know hehe.

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re: How To: Share Recorded TV with other Media Centers

OgeGOon — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 09:31:41 GMT

This work great !

Is there anybody knowing how to also share the DVD library ? I rip all my DVD on the HTPC's hard drive and have enabled the DVD library in MCE... Now, I would appreciate to share those rips between my PC...

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Vila — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 13:20:25 GMT

Great work.

re: How To: Share Recorded TV with other Media Centers / Domain Version

Sonic — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 14:59:50 GMT

This doesn't work for me.

I have a 2003 server domain, with 2 VMC's. I did the exact steps as mentioned above, but it doesn't work. I still can't see any of the other machines recordings.

One thing I don't get is "Go to the NTFS properties of the folder"

I hope you mean the security tab of the recorded tv folder? because this is the one step that's not clear to me...

re: How To: Share Recorded TV with other Media Centers

brad77 — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 06:06:59 GMT

Oh yeah, and you can skip the reboot after making changes to these settings by running the following command from the command prompt (running as an administrator):

gpupdate /force

If successful, you'll see the following two messages:

User Policy update has completed successfully.

Computer Policy update has completed successfully.

re: How To: Share Recorded TV with other Media Centers

brad77 — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 06:04:23 GMT

I had trouble getting this working as well. Be sure to check the following security settings:

Local Computer Policy > Computer Configuration > Windows Settings > Security Settings > Local Policies > User Rights Assignment > Access this computer from the network

Local Computer Policy > Computer Configuration > Windows Settings > Security Settings > Local Policies > User Rights Assignment > Deny access to this computer from the network

"Access this computer from the network" must include an entry for "Everyone" and "Deny access to this computer from the network" must not include "Guest."

Also, make sure that the Guest account is enabled in Computer Management. To enable that account, run "compmgmt.msc" from the run window or command prompt. The guest account can be found here:

Computer Management > System Tools > Local Users and Groups > Users

Good luck.

re: Linksys DMA-2100 $199 (or cheaper) at dell.com

Baski — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 21:32:01 GMT

Ian,

Thanks for the info. Last month I bought one of these for $250. Last night I oroder 2 of them for $250 with my employee purchase program.

I have one basic question though, I have one digital cable card PC , how many extenders can simultaniously watch different channels ? Or I have to have multiple tuners to support each extender?

Thanks and keep up the good work.

Baski

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re: How To: Share Recorded TV with other Media Centers

Tarrant1701 — Thu, 15 May 2008 15:18:16 GMT

Great tip! But one question:

I have two VMC machines. One (A) which is set to record all programs to its own hard drive in the living room. The second (B) is in the bedroom, and I want that one to access (A)'s recorded TV. This tip does just that! My question is:

Is there a way for (B) to automatically send a wake-on-lan signal to (A) when I turn (B) on from standby (S3 mode)?

In other words, both (A) and (B) are set to go to S3 sleep mode when they are inactive. When I turn on (B), I'd like it to send a WOL signal to (A) automatically, so that it can then access (A)'s media.

I already have a program and a batch file to send the WOL signal. I just need a way for (B) to know to run this program every time it wakes up. Thoughts?

re: How To: Share Recorded TV with other Media Centers

RobJohn — Mon, 05 May 2008 14:27:52 GMT

Great Article. Have got 2 vista machines seeing and playing each others recorded tv.

However I have a linksys 2200 extender which is connected to one of the vista machines. It sees the content from the other machine but get the video error screen when try to playback.The host mce plays the files great.

I know it is a permission thing but at loss to get it going. Any ideas!

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re: How To: Share Recorded TV with other Media Centers

bcurrie007 — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 17:50:21 GMT

This is a great article. I had to do another step for the computer sharing the recorded tv. In Control Panel, Network and Sharing Center, I had to turn off "Password protected sharing". After that change, everything worked fine.

re: How To: Share Recorded TV with other Media Centers

docseamons — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 14:53:19 GMT

I went through all of the above steps with interesting results. The secondary MCE with the WatchedFolders registry edit brings in all of the metadata for the Recorded TV shows, but when you select a TV show to watch it brings up a playback error. When you go directly to the folder over the network, the secondary MCE does not have authorization to access the Recorded TV folder. I have checked this scenario from other PC's in the home and none of them have authorized access to the Recorded TV folder.

Thoughts?

re: How To: Share Recorded TV with other Media Centers

danabu — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 10:51:00 GMT

The directions here are for Vista Ultimate, but with one small tweak you can make this solution work for Vista Home Premium as well.

Vista Home does not include the policy editor capability. So when you get to this step above:

"Click Start and then type gpedit.msc in the search box and hit enter."

You won't find gpedit on your machine. However, you can make the necessary adjustments directly to the registry, and achieve the desired outcome. Details on translating between gpedit and the related registry keys are here:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=7821C32F-DA15-438D-8E48-45915CD2BC14&displaylang=en

For this particular one you just need to do this:

* From the start menu, type regedit into the search box to open the registry

* Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanManServer\Parameters

* Right-click on Parameters and choose New - Multi-String value

* Name it NullSessionShares

* Edit the value, and type in Recorded TV

Then reboot, and continue on with the directions to access the new share from your other MPCs.

Good luck!

re: How To: Share Recorded TV with other Media Centers

danabu — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 03:11:01 GMT

I solved the problem above - had nothing to do with the sharing, it's a Windows problem that was hotfixed earlier this month. This link has the details - http://www.xpmediacentre.com.au/community/downloads.php?do=file&id=174

re: How To: Share Recorded TV with other Media Centers

danabu — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 03:00:13 GMT

I have two machines running Vista Premium, and wanted to share recorded TV between them. I have things working pretty well after following these directions, but I do have one problem:

Machine1 has shared content, which I view on Machine2. The one thing that isn’t working is HD content. I can see all the content from Machine1 when looking at recorded TV on Machine2, and I can play content that is not HD. But when I play HD content I get audio, but the screen is just solid green.

Any ideas?

re: How To: Share Recorded TV with other Media Centers

dcozzi — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 16:50:48 GMT

In your notes there are some small changes to getting this to work on XP. Can you tell us what those changes are? I tried was suggested above and can not get it to work.

Thanks in advance.

David

re: I'm Still Alive!

Garry [WMA] — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 17:11:13 GMT

congrats from here too

re: I'm Still Alive!

Ian Dixon — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 15:01:26 GMT

Congrats!!

Ian

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re: How To: Share Recorded TV with other Media Centers

tjohn — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 18:12:06 GMT

This is a great article. Although had to upgrade my MCE it ultimate to get it working!

However i still cannot get my laptop (the remote computer pointing at the recorded tv on the MCE) to play the video in recorded tv. It can see it just fine, and if i browse to the recorded tv folder in media player i can play the video fine.

Media Center throws the following error when trying to play the video:

"Video Error:

Files to display the video are not installed or working properly. Please restart Windows Media Center or restart the computer."

Anyone got any ideas what is actually causing the error?

Thanks

Tom

re: How To: Share Recorded TV with other Media Centers

alanbatchelor — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 21:10:49 GMT

gpedit.msc is not available in vista home Premium. I managed to make changes to my main PC which is running ultimate but would like to have the opposite for the PC running home premium.

Is there a work around to the missing tool.

Great tip by the way. Works flawlessly

Alan

The Vista Daily #9

Robert McLaws: Windows Vista Edition — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 04:48:46 GMT

Today's "Daily" is the "Oh No You Didn't!" edition. It was a strange day in Microsoft-land. REALLY strange.

The Vista Daily #9

Robert McLaws: Windows Vista Edition — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 04:48:43 GMT

Today's "Daily" is the "Oh No You Didn't!" edition. It was a strange day in Microsoft-land. REALLY strange.

Media Center tips and how to share recorded TV on a domain in Windows Vista

Aaron Stebner's WebLog — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 23:06:26 GMT

Ian Dixon recently posted an item on his blog introducing a new Windows Media Center tips forum where

re: How To: Share Recorded TV with other Media Centers

mabrown — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 17:30:38 GMT

Sorry that was a typo. I also have the same issue with the refresh and searching google and the green button it looks like everyone has the same issue. : (

re: How To: Share Recorded TV with other Media Centers

Garry [WMA] — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 14:06:40 GMT

Mike

Just done this on my Vista box.

Couple of points WatchedFolder didn't work but WatchedFolders did.

Also the Recorded TV view doesn't refresh to new content on the share unless I exit and restart Media Center. Any ideas?

Cheers

Garry

re: HD DVD in Vista Media Center

Ian Dixon — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 09:06:01 GMT

I think a 10 foot UI is in the works so it maybe intergrated soon

re: How To: Share Recorded TV with other Media Centers

mabrown — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 16:07:41 GMT

Sweet, thanks for the comments and the link! : )

re: How To: Share Recorded TV with other Media Centers

Ian Dixon — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 11:07:40 GMT

Linked :)

re: How To: Share Recorded TV with other Media Centers

Garry [WMA] — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 15:19:14 GMT

Excellent - Ian can we put a link to this in the Forums

re: Finally, Nvidia Vista RTM Drivers

mabrown — Sun, 07 Jan 2007 21:23:15 GMT

Hey Jeffeson,

Yeah I'm getting the same error installing these drivers, on two different machines one x86 and one x64, looks like Nvidia didn't test the install before releasing these.