Threads Replies Last Post 3 Pages: 1  2  3   will Media Center Play .ts or .tp files I am thinking of building a media center PC. Will Media Center play .tp or ..ts high def files natively (or with little modification)? ... 2 12/22/2008 4:35:32 AM Unexpected error When I play DVDs they are really dark and I realised it's becuase of the gamma being really low. When I go on DVD settings it says "Unexpected error". This is the information from eventvwr.msc: "The description for Event ID ( 0 ) in Source ( Media Center Scheduler ) cannot be found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry information or message DLL files to display mes... 1 12/21/2008 9:11:02 PM Conversion between various video & audio formats Could anyone advise me a good software to do conversion between any video & audio formats? I have used "Total viedo convertor" to convert a .wma file into various viedo formats (.mpg, .flv, .avi), but none of them can be posted to Facebook or Youtube (the latter 3 viedo formats should be acceptable to Facebook & Youtube). I guess the failure is due to the source file is an audio fi... 1 12/20/2008 6:49:01 PM Heterogenous Tuner Question Hello, I have a dual tuner (analog and digital) card. I've done a channel scan, and I've picked up channels from both tuners. I've used the Channel Guide to merge the analog and digital channels together and selected the digital tuner as preferred in the sources list. Here is my question / problem. While watching Live TV, there have been occasions where the digiital signal has been l... 4 12/17/2008 2:50:27 PM "Restricted Content" Message Hello, Occaissionally when trying to watch TV on my PC using Media Center, I get a completely blue screen with the following message ... Restricted Content Restrictions set by the broacaster and/or originator of the content prohibit playback of the program on this computer. This happens intermittently. I can clear the message by closing Media Center and restaring ... 3 12/15/2008 2:32:41 AM Movie flickers or pulsates When in Media Center and playing a movie that is stored on the drive or playing a movie from the DVD drive the movie flickers/pulsates. Now if I move the mouse to see the DVD controls on the screen the problem stops, and when the DVD controls disappear the problem starts again. I have a new ATI All-in-Wonder HD, and updated the drivers. This is a new clean install of Windows Vista Pre-... 4 12/14/2008 10:01:35 AM Remote keyboard Media Center Edition Vista question Hi. i'm wondering if anyone is using the MS 1044 Media Center Keyboard with Vista? I'm trying to use it with my ATI infrared receiver but I can't get it to work. I'm guessing I'll have to get the MS receiver. Does anyone have experience with this?... 3 12/12/2008 5:09:01 PM Xbox 360 will not play .avi or .mov videos Attached a FAT32-formatted HD dierectly to the Xbox360 USB input and tried running .avi and .mov videos from Canon and Kodak cameras off the HD. Always get incorrect codec error when trying to play them, although thought I'd read the XBox 360 natively likes .avi and .mov codecs. These videos all run beautifully on a Vista box either using WMP or WMC. -- gehuali --------------------------------... 5 12/12/2008 12:01:19 AM Seeking a media Center/ HT primer Can anyone recommend a web site or other source which contains current advice on setting up such a system from scratch - that is, integrating Satellite TV, Digitized music, speakers, multiple screens etc..? -- PT ... 1 12/11/2008 3:48:55 AM Xbox 360 using Media Center refuses to play Xvid .avi files This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_002D_01C9355C.3ABEDCA0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I've been using the 360 as a video extender to view video files on both = a USB external drive and a hardwired LAN PC hard drive for months with = no problems. However, when I set up a video server with Vist... 4 12/10/2008 4:13:09 PM Gateway 825GM Media Center Audio Isse I have a Gateway 825GM Media Center PC. I am trying to run connect my audio to my Sony Home receiver. I have attached a picture of the connections on the back of my machine. We I plug in a mini pin to split y red and white audio cable into these connections, I get a hum on my Home receiver. Does anyone know which outlet I should use, and what settings I should use in my HDRealtek Audio D... 1 12/9/2008 6:03:24 PM Media Center Input Hell Media Center for Vista STILL doesn't allow input changing..? I want to use my HP Media Center computer to watch SVIDEO. I wana watch a DVD through my external DVD player. Simply said, I want to change the HP TV Tuner's input. The tuner comes with no software. In Media Center I can see the DVD playing in a thumbnail when I am playing with the settings, but there is no option to choose that ... 1 12/4/2008 8:27:05 AM xbox 360 says media center is connected but still wont connect to hp dv6636nr vista home premium pc I have an HP Pavilion dv6000 (dv6636nr) laptop, vista home premium with microsoft's firewall, and I can't connect to the 360 through the media center extender. When I test the connection with network settings on the NXE it says it's connected. When I try to connect it says "The xbox 360 was unable to prepare a connection to the windows vista media center-based pc. Restart your xbox 360 and tr... 1 12/3/2008 10:30:42 PM KB955519 causes recording problems I have an HP Media Center PC with 2 ATI digital tuners. After installing the Media Center update KB955519, about half of the recorded TV shows end up without video and the audio portion is fast and choppy. Some shows record fine, others are mangled. It doesn't seem to be channel or show related, it is just random. After uninstalling KB955519, everything works perfectly. Does anyone ... 2 11/29/2008 3:51:07 AM FM Radio using Vista Home Premium on HP Pavilion 9250F I have a HP Pavilion Elite (m9250f) which has a built-in TV tuner card. According to the document came with the computer, I can watch a live TV program and play FM radio one at a time. Even if I set up TV signal and was able to watch a live TV connected to an outdoor antenna, I have not been able to play FM radio. Whenever I tried to play FM radio, the FM Radio Setup Window popped up with... 5 11/23/2008 6:07:11 PM How to program to receive HTPC Remote Controller ? I want to control a program (include IE's ocx) to switch page by HTPC Remote Controller? Which API to do it? Thanks ... 2 11/21/2008 9:21:06 PM using remote to control monitor I've read about MCE remote control for Windows Media Center. Most monitors can be dimmed. How would I send a signal from the MCE remote control to dim a monitor. Think of it like muting sound. Except in this case I want to reduce the light from the monitor by, say, 50%. Have not purchased a monitor yet, so will look at models that can be remotely dimmed.... 2 11/19/2008 7:21:37 PM STB --> HDMI --> Vista x64 MCE Is this possible? I get my TV via IP into a STB, which only has a HDMI output. Is there a way to get this into my HTPC (server) and stream it to my extenders? Or should I look for option to convert from HDMI to an analog signal (very expensive + quality loss) and use this input? -- Best regards, Nikolaj Johansen Windows Vista Ultimate x64 XBOX 360 + 2x Linksys DMA2200 (wired)... 6 11/17/2008 10:15:13 AM Politics microtechnology ics computerized foop freerun gc referencecount stopped melvilles... 1 11/2/2008 11:02:58 PM Different play rates in Media Player and Media Center/dLink extender? This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0028_01C934AA.1B711410 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I've been setting up a media server (Vista Home Premium) with a dLink = DSM-520 as a test base for implementing extenders (probably DSM-750s = because of MCE support) but I noticed a great difference in playb... 3 10/23/2008 7:36:21 PM o/s installation problem Trying to install xp pro with media center, the third disc, updates will not install and there is no i/e installed...........any suggestions? Pror to this eveything was good, only change was installing a new hard drive.... 3 10/14/2008 8:13:01 PM controlling media center via MSC-400 I was wondering if anybody in this group is using URC MSC-400 to control Media Center via USB emulation feature. http://www.universalremote.com/product_detail.php?model=108 Thanks... 1 10/8/2008 2:18:29 PM Why cant i tell Media Center to use desktop resolution When i first got vista i went through media centers wizard to configure it to my HDTV, coincidentally i use the HDTV as a monitor for my computer, its a nice setup. Anyway when i had originally installed vista i was having trouble with getting the resolution to fill the screen, this problem has since passed, and ive got it exactly within the dimensions of the TV. But now Media center is ... 12 7/12/2007 11:16:01 PM Cable Card Interface Has anyone had an opportunity to use a cable card with Vista? If so, how well did it work? I know ATI introduced something a couple of months ago but I heard nothing since. Tony ... 3 7/6/2007 5:56:02 PM Recording Movies from Movie Channels It appears that the recordings of all movie channel movies (or most of them) are blocked due to copyright infringements. Is Microsoft working on a deal OR a Patch for this problem? Or, do we now have to go to the added expense of purchasing digital cable boxes as well. This would mean to me that my TV computer was a big waist of money! -- EJ... 2 7/6/2007 1:52:45 PM 3 Pages: 1  2  3