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A couple of great Media Center addons
Just wanted to share a couple of excellent Media Center addons I have found recently. The first, called WebGuide4, allows you to access your Media Center PC through a web interface, including mobile: http://www.asciiexpress.com/wiki/ The second allows Read More...
Windows Vista Ultimate x64 Component Registration Problem
My Media Center PC randomly decided to stop working. After a lot of searching and trying I finally found this: http://mymce.wordpress.com/2006/11/30/a-component-registration-failurea-critical-process-failurea-tuner-not-found-error/ The steps were: Close Read More...
Problems with Nero 7 in Windows Vista Ultimate x64
I have had a number of issues in getting my favourite burning program, Nero 7, working in Windows Vista Ultimate x64. These are: 1. Every time I login I receive a message "Nero Home Has Stopped Responding". When I click to end this process, it obviously Read More...
Extracting WMV from MCE
I initially tried playing with DVRMSToolbox, but it had some significant issues wwith Vista 64. (Would not convert to WMV and Commercial skipping not working in Media Centre). I found another tool called MCE Buddy. This is not as flexible as DVRMSToolbox Read More...
Synchronise Media from Media Centre to External Storage on XDA Orbit
Since installing Windows Vista Ultimate and a TV card on my desktop PC, I have been playing with Media Centre. Everything was working great except synchronising content to my Windows Mobile 5.0 device (an O2 XDA Orbit). I was only being offered the change Read More...