Windows Media Center is a Home Theater program that comes with most versions of Windows Vista and 7.
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Windows 7 media center boot without password [duplicate]
I always access my Media center computer through remote desktop connection, thus the media center requires a password. Everytime I reboot the media center, it needs to enter a password to login. Is ...
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Preserve encryption identity/key moving Windows Media Center to new install of Windows 7
My computer is Windows 7 Home Premium x64 with Media Center and a pre-installed TV-Tuner card. I have a collection of movies and tv programs that I have recorded using Media Center.
As I understand ...
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Can a Windows 7 MCE HTPC with Network Tuner capability “give” a tuner to a Windows 8 WMC?
Can a Windows 7 MC (Media Center) HTPC with Network Tuner capability "give" a tuner to a Windows 8 WMC (Windows Media Center)?
From what I know, Windows 8 cannot give a tuner to Windows 7 MC, but can ...
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Changing Windows Media Center Screensaver
I've enabled the picture slideshow screensaver within Windows Media Center and all was good when I had an LCD TV. Now that I have plasma, I'm noticing some slight image retention where the white ...
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Access media/TV on a Windows Media Center PC from Ubuntu
Is it possible to access media/live or recorded TV on a PC running Win 7 shared via Windows Media Center from a Ubuntu machine (12.04)? I can access media stored to disk via the Workgroup shares but I ...
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Windows media center incorrectly reports tuners as unavailable
The problem I am having is that Windows Media Center incorrectly reports all tuners as unavailable even when there are tuners available.
My setup is Windows 8 Pro with Media Center and my tuner is a ...
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Windows 8 Media Center analog and digital channels at the same time
I recently setup a new PC with Windows 8 Media Center using a Hauppauge 2250 dual tuner card. This same card was moved from my old Windows 7 w/media center PC and was working correctly. It appears ...
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Can I play Blu-ray movies from an external drive?
I have a media center behind my TV and a DVD drive in an external enclosure (connected via USB) where I can reach it. I'd like to put a Blu-ray drive in there instead, but I'm concerned that it won't ...
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Windows 7 Recorded TV Explorer Freezes
In my "Recorded TV" library, in which I store the movies that Windows Media Center record from my TV tuner card, I have about 400 movies (.dvr-ms and .wtv files), almost 2.4 TB of data. When I try to ...
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Windows 8 Pro with Media Center - Upgrade problems [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to remove Media Center from Windows 8
Microsoft were recently giving away FREE serial keys to add Media Center to Windows 8 Pro, but I missed the boat. A friend ...
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Is there Windows Media Center software of windows 7? [closed]
I am not sure if my question makes any sense, but I remember when I had Windows XP it came with Windows Media Center software.
Does Windows 7 have Windows Media Center?
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Nesting Folders in Windows 7 for a Media Center
I have built a DVR comp using 2x 3TB HD's and and want my tuner card to be able to record movies and tv as long as I have space on either one of them, unfortunately Win 7 forced me to partition one of ...
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Blu Ray Stutter on Windows 8
When watching Blu-Ray films, every few minutes there will be a short stutter lasting about a second wherein the picture freezes before resynchronising with the audio. Sometimes this will happen every ...
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How to remove Media Center from Windows 8
I bought 2 Windows 8 upgrades, 1 for my PC and 1 for my notebook. I added Windows Media Center to my notebook using the free offer in November (side note: the key was emailed to me within 5 minutes, I ...
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Can I install Windows 8 Media Center Pack on multiple computers
I am upgrading multiple computers with Windows 8 upgrade. they have an option now to get the Windows 8 Media Center Pack for free. Do I need to get three separate keys, or will one suffice for all the ...
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Why can't I play DVDs on Windows 8 Pro with Media Center Pack?
I have a laptop with Windows 8 Pro with Media Center (64-bit), but neither Media Player or Media Center can play DVDs.
Have I done something wrong? Did the Feature Pack not install correctly? Should ...
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Wake up and record in Windows Media Center on a Mac Mini
I'm currently considering buying a Mac Mini to use as a media center.
I plan to install Windows 7 (or 8) on it, using Boot Camp.
Will it be able to go into standby or hibernate (S3, S4?) and wake up ...
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Windows Media Center playing iTunes Video
I have a video which I've bought from iTunes (stored locally), I've added it to the Media Centre library (in Windows 8 Professional) and it can't play it.
The warning says: Windows media center ...
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Connecting to a DLNA server in Vista's Media Centre
I've got a Windows 7 machine with a DLNA server set up. I can stream from it to my mobile and a number of other devices with no issues. All clients are auto-authorised so no permissions issues either.
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How can I play Blu-Ray movies on a PC upgraded to Windows 8?
How can I play Blu-Ray movies via Windows Media Centre on Windows 8? If I choose the "play dvd" option, I get an error:
Cannot Play Disc
To play this DVD, you must first install a playback ...
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Can't update PlayReady in Windows Media Center
In WMC I am only getting the channels that also go OTA, like ABC, NBC, etc. The cable channels are just black screens.
Once in a while this error pops up:
But immediately after clicking update it ...
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Obtaining clear cable signal with Hauppage 1191-950Q TV Tuner
I bought a Hauppauge 1191 WinTV-HVR-950Q TV Tuner a while back, and I am attempting to use it to watch TV in Windows Media Center. I do not have cable TV, however I used to have Comcast. Through ...
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Windows Media Center: cannot change the volume
I have a home theater set up using Windows Media Center. The computer running it isn't exactly the greatest computer out there but it does the job well. I have recently installed an nvida gforce 210 ...
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Media Centre on Windows 8
I am trying to install media centre on windows 8. I downloaded a key and installed it on my laptop with no problems.
When I try to install on it my desktop it informs me that the key checks out but ...
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Has anyone successfully received their free key to Media Center in Windows 8? [closed]
I read somewhere you can get a free Media Center key here:
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/feature-packs
Has anyone actually successfully received their key? I requested one on Friday ...
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“Add Features to Windows 8” menu missing
I have a Windows 8 Pro N x64 install and want to add der Media Center Feature Pack. Had anybody figured out how to do this?
I already tried control /name Microsoft.WindowsAnytimeUpgrade and nothing ...
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Windows 8 Media Center Pack Install Fails with DoTransmogrify failed due to error 0x80070011
When I attempt to use Add Features to install the Windows 8 Media Center pack I get the "Something Went Wrong" Message
Checking %localappdata%\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Anytime Upgrade\Upgrade.log I ...
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How to slipstream Windows 8 Pro Pack?
Another query that might take some time to get answered... As of now, AFAIK the Pro/Media Center Pack can only be downloaded via the "Add features" option in Windows 8.
Is there an offline installer ...
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How to add Media Center Pack to Windows 8 Pro?
I tried to obtain it from the Add Features website, but it doesn't seem to work -- I tried two different e-mail addresses from different providers, waited 10 hours and checked my spam folders, but no ...
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How can I get Windows Media Center on my Windows 8 Enterprise install?
Windows Media Center is no longer part of the default install for any Windows SKU, due to its low use. I do use it, and plan on installing it.
For a limited time, the WMC install is free, so I ...
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Install Netflix on Media Center
This feels like one stupid question, but I can't for my life find Netflix on Win 7 Media Center.
In extras library it says No Extras are available.
In Extras -> explore there are only two icons: ...
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Where can I get a good WMP or WMC remote for my phone? [closed]
I've seen a few options, but ideally it would be able to load the library and display song, video, and picture information while allowing controls for play, pause, volume, next, etc...
Please no ...
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Static sound through HTPC Speakers
I just built a Home Theater PC running Windows 7 with MediaBrowser.
When I open Media Center, I get this static noise coming through the TV. This is before I have even played anything. It only ...
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Windows 8 wmvcore.dll
I am running Windows 8 Pro N x64 without Windows Media Player (which might be called Windows Media Center in the case of Windows 8) preinstalled. Apparently certain software packages require WMP to be ...
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Windows Media Center history
I would like to know the means that WMC can determine if it had already downloaded a movie or series episode so it doesn't record it again. I encode unprotected videos aster recording due to space ...
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Windows Media Center spontaneously changing the language of program descriptions
I have found a rather bizarre issue in Windows Media Center (WMC). I use WMC to record and watch movies (using my TV tuner card), and currently I have a few hundred movies stored on one of my hard ...
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How to diagnose and solve an erratic “HDCP Support Required”?
I am playing a digital tv broadcast on Windows Media Center for Windows 7. I built this system so it works with HDCP, and in fact I have been able to watch tv and bluray before with this same ...
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What Media Extender / Centre Set up should I use?
I have installed cat6 throughout the house which I use for telephony and network. In my cellar I have a NAS Server, gigabit switch and I want to install a Media Centre to stream my video's, music, ...
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How to add Windows Media Center?
On Windows 8 Pro, I'm trying to add Windows Media Center using the Add features to Windows 8 dialog, but when I enter my product key I get the message This key won't work. Check it and try again, or ...
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Media Center TV time bar
I watching tv using usb DVB-T tunner.
I have a problem with the time bar. (on the screenshot)
The "window" 10 hours and it never starts from the begining of the bar, only at the right edge.
how ...
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What is needed to stream media from a Humax HDR to Windows Media Centre?
I believe it should be possible to stream media from my Humax HDR-FoxT2 to Windows Media Center, or at the very least, Windows Media Player. Other people have said that it should "just work", although ...
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Choppy video playback in Windows Media Center when the window is not active
I have always had a minor issue with video playback in Windows Media Center. It is a very minor issue, indeed, but still somewhat annoying. Video playback generally works perfectly, irrespective of ...
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WTV and DVR-MS television recordings, should I de-interlace or not?
Following on from this question (where I am converting WTV and DVR-MS television recordings into H.264/MPEG-4 AVC to cut down on space), given the output of ffmpeg -i <filename>, how can I work ...
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WTV playback speed in Windows Media Center
Windows 7 saves TV recording in .wtv files. These files can be played in fast forward mode (1.5x or so speedup) in Windows Media Center.
Is this mode allowed only for WTV files or is due to codec ...
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Send test IR commands
I have a Windows 7 computer to which I have a Dell IR receiver / transmitter hooked up to control a Cisco cable box for Windows Media Center.
I wanted to send test IR commands that would be outside ...
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In Windows Media Center, is there a way to use both digital and analog audio simultaneously?
I have a PC in my living room (HTPC) running Windows 7 Media Center. It has a Gigabyte motherboard and I am using the embedded audio. I have the analog audio output to a SONY TV and digital output to ...
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fixing window media center - channel
I've gotten my WMC in a bad state. After trying various free tools to enchance WMC with channel editors and the like, it no longer updates the channel guide.
What is required to reset my WMC - can I ...
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Can I setup a series recording based on a search in Windows Media Center?
I have Windows 7 Media Center with a OTA tuner card.
I want to record any MLB Baseball that is in the TV guide.
All I can seem to do is schedule a recording of a single game at a time.
Is there a ...
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Will upgrading to Windows 7 Professional from Home Premium remove Media Center?
My computer came with a copy of Windows 7 Home Premium. If I upgrade it to Windows 7 Professional, what will happen to Media Center? Will it be deleted because it's not available in Professional, or ...
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Uninstall storage heavy Windows applications like Windows Media Player
I currently have a 128GB SSD and want as much free space as possible. I want to uninstall some of the software installed by windows, because I use alternative applications.
This is what I want to ...
