This week I am talking to David McCabe from The Home Server Show, Richard Miller and Adam Thursby about streaming content around the home, including how to stream downloaded content. We also debate the future of Extenders and what we would like to see in the Zune HD
I also have a roundup of the weeks news
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Show Times:
00:23 Coming up this week
01:12 Big Screen EPG – ‘by Remote’ (2 Foot PVR Client for Media Center)
02:10 Trouble with the DTV transition and Windows Media Center
02:45 Windows Media Center users on Xbox 360/Windows 7 down for 24 hours
03:30 Members blog
03:35 The Custom Integrator Show Installment 011
05:16 Catch up with David
06:39 Catching up with Adam and Richard
08:02 Downloading content
09:46 Streaming with Windows Home Server
15:00 Extenders
17:30 Xbox 360 and a dedicated Microsoft Extender?
22:46 Zune HD as a portable extender, yes please!
28:21 Combined experience
31:20 MKV support
38:40 Streaming VOBs
40:17 Converting videos
43:39 Netflix in Windows Media Center
48:00 PlayOn
52:12 Tunerfree MCE
59:40 See you next week
Technorati tags: Windows Media Center, podcasts
Clubhouse tags: clubhouse, media center, windows media center, how-to
Great show guys really enjoyed listening to that one!
I think the issue you were talking about with the Zune, was that issue with the Zune 2 when it was released, that it would not sync DVR-MS files if they contained Digital Dolby audio, it was a licensing issue I think rather than a technical one. Not sure if that ever got resolved?
Thought you might have mentioned the “native transcoding” in Windows7, I can play MKV’s on the XBOX 360 extender with just the Haali Media Splitter installed on the PC. But the picture quality is not that good yet, although build 7229 is an improvement over build 7077 in this area. And of course there is that DIVX technical preview which I’ve not tried as yet but I hear works very well for MKV’s on extenders.
I still thing using VideoRedo to quick stream DVD’s VOB’s in to DVR-MS files is the best solution for DVD playback (main movie only) on the extenders. Or if your too lazy to do that Transcode 360 is still a good option under Vista Media Center.