- #Win7 mediacenter mp4#
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- #Win7 mediacenter windows 7#
It automatically detected the two Pinnacle tuner cards in our test PC, even noting that the satellite card only had one tuner connected.
#Win7 mediacenter code#
TV setup begins with your country and post code so that it can set up local Freeview channels, then examines your system for tuners and downloads the appropriate Freeview mux frequencies. Media libraries can include networked hard discs or other PCs. You can choose where to record TV and how much space to allow for recordings – 10 per cent is automatically set aside for a live TV cache.
#Win7 mediacenter full#
Speaker configurations go up to Dolby Digital 5.1, with our home cinema amplifier picking up Dolby Pro-Logic matrix encoding over a stereo connection from BBC HD, as well as the full digital audio.
#Win7 mediacenter windows 7#
To get it to work best you need to have the Perl script that I have which moves the films from the "Recorded TV" folder into the "Movies" folder - but once it's up and running, it looks rather good.When Media Center is first fired up from the Windows 7 desktop it launches a setup wizard for your display, speaker configuration, recording storage, media libraries and TV tuners. It's installed as part of the base pack but not enabled so you have to find the plugins section and enable it. I found that there is a WTV and DVR-MS plugin for Media Browser which means that you can group all your videos (on the network, stored locally or recorded off the TV) in one place irrespective of format.
#Win7 mediacenter mp4#
I then installed the Media Control Plugin which enabled FFWD and RWD to work on those non-Microsoft formats.Īfter that I was able to browse and watch (through Media Browser) DivX, XviD, MP4 and MKV files stored locally on the hard drive or streamed from another PC or NAS across my 802.11n network happily without any stutter. I managed to get pretty damn near perfect playback of all of the popular formats by uninstalling any codec packs and then installing Media Browser and FFDShow (using the instructions here) to play back non-Microsoft content. Response by poster: Following up from point 2: Posted by mr_silver at 3:44 AM on June 28, 2010 I looked at doing advert filtering using a variety of tools but in the end it was just too complicated. In the future, I can convert them to a smaller format and view them through Media Center.ĥ.
This means that movies don't clutter up the recorded TV section and sit only in Movies. I then have a perl script which looks for movies in the "Recorded TV" folder and moves them into there every night. It looks for new files and then adds all the approriate meta-data. I use Yammm to monitor the "Videos" folder. If you use LogMeIn or Remote Desktop then MCE exits which is somewhat annoying.Ĥ. Use TightVNC to access your PC without plugging in a keyboard. I'm now going to try the Media Control plugin which claims to solve all these problems.ģ. In addition, hitting the "back" button whilst playing content causes XMBC to minimise and you're stuck until you connect to the Media Centre with a keyboard. I tried using XBMC for these pieces of content and it works but wasn't happy with the way the UI changes. Out of the box, MCE doesn't support FFWD and RWD on any formats which aren't WTV or DVR-MS. This isn't GF friendly enough, so I ditched it.Ģ. The solution is for it to be shown in Media Browser but then you get two places that shows could be. MCEBuddy is kind of pointless because, once converted, you lose all the meta-data and it disappears from the TV show list. Response by poster: Now I have it set up, couple of things:ġ. Thanks! posted by mr_silver to Computers & Internet (4 answers total) 3 users marked this as a favorite In the future I'd like to be able to buy a DVB-T2 USB stick and get Freeview HD recordings as well. Listen to music hosted remotely on the home network. Watch catchup TV (BBC iPlayer, 4oD, Demand Five etc)Į. Play video files (mainly DivX/Xvid) both hosted locally and remotely on the home network.Ĭ.
Main goals is a girlfriend friendly DVR which can:ī. Is there anything else that you can recommend that I should (or should not) be doing? Bonus points if they Freeview (DVB-T) specific as I'm based in the UK. Configure sharing so that the content is accessible on the network.
Use Media Center studio to modify the menus so that you always go to Media Browser to view all the available content.Ĩ.
#Win7 mediacenter install#
Install and configure M圜hannel Logos, Media Browser, Remote Potato, TuneFree MCE (for BBC iPlayer), MCEBuddy (for reducing the file sizes by converting to H264) and ShowAnalyzer.ħ. Schedule anti-virus and defrag daily at 3amĦ. Install Windows 7 Home Premium, Microsoft Security Essentials, Hauppage drivers, Eventghost for IR control (if I need this) and CCP for various codecs.ģ. I have an Asus EeeBox PC EB1012, Hauppauge WinTV-Nova-TD dual tuner and the remote control that comes with the latter.ġ.
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