The Media Center Blog

Written by a Microsoft Windows Entertainment & Connected Home MVP. Covering HTPC MCE / Kodi (XBMC) and Home Automation.

Thursday, 14 October 2010

Two highly recommended WHS V1 add-ins

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I recently built my first WHS for my own home using my old desktop PC and whatever bits I had lying about the place. I’ve build several high...
Monday, 11 October 2010

My Channel Logos – Jazz up your Media Center Program Guide

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I was setting up a new HTPC this week for our living room and one of the things I wanted to do was add channel logos in to the program guide...
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Fix Media Center Studio without jumping through too many hoops!

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I tried a few times to fix Media Center Studio after updates release by Microsoft broke parts of its functionality. There was several threa...
Monday, 21 June 2010

Turn your Windows Home Server V1 in to a VPN server

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I was looking on the Internet for an easy to follow guide to be able to setup a WHS to act as a VPN server. However the guide I found on a p...
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Tuesday, 15 June 2010

Facebook photos on your Media Center - Photato

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I heard about the Photato Media Center plug-in awhile ago now, but I stumbled on their website again today, so I thought I’d install the pl...
Wednesday, 26 May 2010

Media Center updates break custom menus

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I’m sure most Windows Media Center users who customize their menus, are now aware that something is up with the menus in Media Center! I u...
Thursday, 6 May 2010

What’s on the workbench today? iTX Mini HTPC!

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On the workbench today we have an iTX Mini PC, using an Antec ISK 310-150 Mini iTX Case. I quite like this case, it is sturdy, however I...
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Wednesday, 5 May 2010

7MC Music Library re-building bug – Hotfix now out!

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Well it’s been a long time coming but I’ve just spotted on my thread on The Green Button that Microsoft have now released a hotfix to an i...
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Intel DH55TC motherboard – True-HD & DTS-HD audio as standard!

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I’ve been testing out a new HTPC platform recently, based around the Intel DH55TC motherboard and an Intel i3-530 Clarkdale processor. ...
Monday, 3 May 2010

MKV’s with Subtitles and now with DXVA aka hardware acceleration!

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Last time I tried to get some MKV movie files playing with subtitles on an AsRock ION 330HT Nettop PC if failed. I lost the hardware acceler...
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