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  • TunerFree MCE updates

    You probably know that I’m a huge fan of TunerFree MCE .  Well it’s been updated with the following since my last post about it: Stopped BBC programs from playing twice when navigating away and back again. Update for new BBC changes. Play BBC high resolution feeds by default. Added an option to...
    Posted to Simon's Blog by simonster on 11-20-2008
    Filed under: add-in, media center
  • Smaller footprints on Windows 7

    Over on the Windows 7 Engineering blog today the team are posting some great “insider” information about Windows 7 and how the team are designing it.  Today’s post is all about design considerations around disk space usage, and with Windows having been getting bigger and bigger and bigger over the...
    Posted to Simon's Blog by simonster on 11-20-2008
    Filed under: media center
  • Re: Best Vista MCE plug-ins

    I actually don't like codec packs, my personal experience is that they tend to cause more problems than they're worth. I've tried quite a few, they lead to some annoying blue screens! I install FFDSHOW tryout , which does almost everything. I also use Xvid , some Xvid stuff doesn't seem...
    Posted to Windows Media Center Tips by simonster on 11-16-2008
  • TV Pack Teething Issues - Waking Up and Error Messages

    While I think the TV pack is an absolute MUST in Media Center - particularly since it gives you an actual, working Guide in Australia - there are one or two problems that my TV-pack equipped machines are having. 1) Starting Up The main Media Center machine is taking a little while to start up now-adays...
    Posted to Ask Microsoft and the Experts by IgnoranceIsBliss on 11-13-2008
  • Pause, Rewind and Fast Forward DivX (etc.)

    A couple of people have posted comments around the site over the past week about how they’d like to be able to do all the “normal” stuff in the title with non-Microsoft video formats. Well me too, and I can. A while a go I was getting so annoyed at this that I decided to do some digging...
    Posted to Simon's Blog by simonster on 11-05-2008
    Filed under: add-in, media center, Tip
  • Re: Where does your Media Center PC live?

    The Black Gold might be able to cope with Freesat if it has it's own software and you could watch it outside of Media Center. Freesat is H.264 encoded and right now (without the hacked TV Pack) you can't get h264 in Media Center. It will however be working for Windows 7. I think the Black Gold...
  • PlayOn - Hulu on your Xbox360, or HP Media Smart TV!

    Lifehacker have posted about PlayOn which can stream Hulu and some other services to your XBox and a host of other stuff. I've just signed up for the Beta and installed it...but first a word from PlayOn about how it works: MediaMall's PlayOn software is a DLNA / UPnP media server and browser...
    Posted to Simon's Blog by simonster on 10-29-2008
    Filed under: media center, xbox
  • Netflix gets some Silverlight Goodness

    In a press release today , presumably partly timed around PDC, Netflix have announced that they’re going to start streaming TV and Movies using Silverlight to deliver the content instantly. Why have Netflix chosen Silverlight, well it looks like two reasons PlayReady gives them built in DRM It’s...
    Posted to Simon's Blog by simonster on 10-27-2008
    Filed under: media center, xbox, silverlight
  • Testing of online alarm clock on media center

    Hello Forum Tech Support, I was wondering if someone could please test our online alarm clock site on Windows Media Center to see how it works: http://onlineclock.net Does the Media Center already have an alarm clock function built in, or is our site a useful addition to its functionality ? Thank you...
    Posted to Technical Support by OnlineClock on 08-22-2008
  • Poor Network Performance for Media Center

    Hi all, I wanted to see if anyone had any good ideas on how to fix an issue I am having. I have a Windows Vista Ultimate machine and a XBox 360. My machine had to be blown away and have Vista reinstalled so I could get SP1 installed on the machine. After the reinstall of Vista and the install of SP1...
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