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  • Analogue TV signal issues

    South Africa is blessed to have public to air broadcasts. We have free channels that we have to pay for (it’s the right thing to do) and we have more ads per half hour show than actual content. On top of that we generally have poor broadcast coverage. Large parts of the country for example only receive...
    Posted to Articles (Weblog) by Chris on 28/03/2006

  • Keyboard shortcuts for MCE 2005

    Below is a list of keyboard shortcuts for use withing MCE 2005. You won't need most of these if you have the remote keyboard but they are good to keep handy anyway. To: Turn up volume Press: F10 To: Turn down volume Press: F9 To: Mute volume Press: F8 To: Open Messenger in Media Center Press: CTRL...
    Posted to Articles (Weblog) by Chris on 26/03/2006

  • How to program the buttons on your MCE remote

    The newer versions of the official MCE remotes have the ability to control other hardware in addition to Media Center. You can program the TV button and the Volume buttons. Most likely you would want to control the On/Off function on your TV and the volume on your amplifier. By default, the VOL + and...
    Posted to Articles (Weblog) by Chris on 22/03/2006

  • MCE 2005 shutdown menu options

    In MCE 2005 Microsoft introduced more options when the power icon (on the main window) is pressed. Unfortunately, the power icon is a bit of a pain to navigate to. You have to go to the main window by pressing the green button on the MCE remote, press the left arrow, press the up arrow and press OK....
    Posted to Articles (Weblog) by Chris on 22/03/2006

  • Archiving your recorded TV shows into other formats

    One of the BIG problems with MCE is that it is limited to only using the DVR-MS file format to save recorded TV shows. This is not yet a widely recognized and supported format and means you’re stuck to only using MCE or Windows Media Player 10 to view these files. Another problem is that the recordings...
    Posted to Articles (Weblog) by Chris on 16/03/2006

  • Stream DivX and Xvid to a MCE extender with Transcode 360

    The one major let down of the XBOX 360’s media capabilities is the lack of DivX / Xvid support. I’ve read articles explaining the reasons for it, copyright materials, unlicensed codecs etc etc, but the fact is that the 360 just cannot be an all in one device without this ability. Enter Runtime’s Transcode...
    Posted to Articles (Weblog) by Duncan on 11/03/2006

  • Enable automatic logon to Windows from within MCE 2005

    It seems very few people know how to enable an automatic logon to their Media Center 2005 PC from within the Media Center application. If you have a password set for the username that you use to login to your MCE then you can use the following steps to enable Automatic Logon from within the application...
    Posted to Articles (Weblog) by Chris on 08/03/2006

  • Share recorded TV between 2 MCE 2005 machines

    I have 2 MCE machines at home. The main one in the lounge, which is our 'media hub' and another in my study, which is also my PC to do the normal stuff anyone else does with these lovely little things. I have MCE 2005 installed on both machines and I wanted to be able to view the Recorded TV...
    Posted to Articles (Weblog) by Chris on 07/03/2006

  • Enable the TV menu on a MCE 2005 PC without a TV tuner card

    Use this registry file to enable the TV menu in MCE 2005 if you don't have a TV tuner card installed. This is useful if you, like me, installed MCE on another PC and want to watch and delete the Recorded TV on your main MCE machine. Save the attached registry file and merge it into your registry...
    Posted to Articles (Weblog) by Chris on 07/03/2006

  • How to access network content from a MCE extender

    I have a PC running Windows XP Media Center 2005. I recently purchased a Media Center Extender for the XBOX and played around with it this weekend. So far I am impressed with it and everthing works 100% except for one thing: I found it immposible to get the extender to find the other PC's on my network...
    Posted to Articles (Weblog) by Chris on 07/03/2006
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