What is the best way to share recorded TV from WHS to show up on recorded TV on MCE 2005 ,I have it showing sometimes but every time I have a schedule recording  from standby, I lose the recording list from the server , I have tried different things sometimes it works and sometime it doesn't  , has anybody got this to work , or is there a hotfix from Microsoft's or has someone got it to work in vista MCE

Cheers

Have you tried following Richard's guide?

http://thedigitallifestyle.com/cs/forums/thread/2608.aspx

Ian

I have followed Richard guide it does work if I leave my MCE on 24/7 the problem happens when I put my MCE in standy by mode and it wakes up for a recording the list will disappear   

It seems I was a little premature in declaring things working recording directly to WHS.

My setup:

  Vista Ultimate fully patched

  HP Mediasmart WHS server fully patched 

  HDHomerun dual ATSC tuner

I'm finding it records scheduled programs but fails to stop recording at the end. For example, a one hour show was still streaming into the file after 4 hours (40GB file). The show info said "60 minutes" but the white progress bar went to 2 hours and I could continue to fast forward for an additional 2 hours with the slider pinned at the right end.

Once it gets into this state I'm unable to release the tuners - if I try to watch live TV it tells me there are no free tuners (they're both stuck recording scheduled shows that have long ago ended) and if I try to preempt one of the tuners it hangs. I have to reboot.

I've reverted the 3 paths in the registry to C: (but still have my server as a matched location) and things work flawlessly. I can move recorded files from C: to my server and view them, but recording have to go directly to C: to avoid the "failure to end recording" problem.

Does anyone have an answer to this (and my prior question on convincing MCE that my WHS free space is available to it)?

Thanks,

Olli 

brad77:

Also, it may be worth noting that I am not recording directly to the WHS.  My Media Center is recording to a local disk, and those files are being moved over to my WHS periodically by the "Recorded TV Manager" WHS Add-in from Drasch Computer Software. You have to sort out your permissions on the Media Center to allow the WHS to access its shares, but I found that to be a good solution for me.  The software is $25, and well worth it IMO.

 I have noticed that this program doesn't work with the new TV Pack - as recorded TV is now in a different format (.WTV).

Dean Cairns:

I have noticed that this program doesn't work with the new TV Pack - as recorded TV is now in a different format (.WTV).

Good point, Dean. I checked in with the developer, and here's what Rick had to say:

Yes, that’s true.  The reason is that Microsoft has not made the bits available and there is no SDK or other documentation either, as far as I know.  I’ve been in the Media Center and Vista betas from the beginning but I have not seen anything from Microsoft yet.  I can’t really update and test the software until Microsoft provides that information.

Having said that, it is my intention to update the software to support wtv format, in addition to dvr-ms, as soon as possible.  Another user has provided me with a small wtv format file which I am looking at to determine what needs to be done.  The Recorded TV Manager software was designed to accommodate format changes such as this.   I should be able to update one low-level dll to add the wtv file format to the product, but I can’t do that until I have an environment in which I can engineer the necessary changes.

I'm unclear about whether or not the upgrade will be free when it is available, but there you go.

brad77:

Dean Cairns:

I have noticed that this program doesn't work with the new TV Pack - as recorded TV is now in a different format (.WTV).

Good point, Dean. I checked in with the developer, and here's what Rick had to say:

Yes, that’s true.  The reason is that Microsoft has not made the bits available and there is no SDK or other documentation either, as far as I know.  I’ve been in the Media Center and Vista betas from the beginning but I have not seen anything from Microsoft yet.  I can’t really update and test the software until Microsoft provides that information.

Having said that, it is my intention to update the software to support wtv format, in addition to dvr-ms, as soon as possible.  Another user has provided me with a small wtv format file which I am looking at to determine what needs to be done.  The Recorded TV Manager software was designed to accommodate format changes such as this.   I should be able to update one low-level dll to add the wtv file format to the product, but I can’t do that until I have an environment in which I can engineer the necessary changes.

I'm unclear about whether or not the upgrade will be free when it is available, but there you go.

The SDK for 5.0 and 5.1 are the same, the undocumented APIs have changed.

So not sure if it can be fixed.

brad77:

I'm unclear about whether or not the upgrade will be free when it is available, but there you go.

I just heard back from Rick again.  He does intend that the update will be free if/when it comes out.

HELP!

I have just followed Richard's instructions to the letter, and now Media Center on my Vista Ultimate x64 is broken!  Once MC has started, if I click on live tv it now takes 2 mins or so to start live tv AND I cannot configure the Recorder Storage settings (hangs for a minute or so then kicks a generic error and restarts MC)

I've reverted the reg edits and re-booted and now I get a COMPONENT REGISTRATION FAILURE error box saying "Some of the files needed to play radio or video are missing or corrupt.  Windows Media Center component registration may have failed" with an OK button.

I've run sfc and it found no errors, System Restore fails with an unspecified error - nothing seems to Google-up in the way of a repair.

Any help desperately appreciated 

PS I've got a repeated application event "Faulting application ehRec.exe, version 6.0.6001.18000, time stamp 0x47919df6, faulting module kernel32.dll, version 6.0.6001.18000, time stamp 0x4791ada5, exception code 0xe053534f, fault offset 0x000000000002649d, process id 0x%9, application start time 0x%10."