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Media Center Technical Discussion 1: Tuners and TuningSpaces
03 April 06 08:08 PM | Peter Rosser | 28 Comments   
The Media Center TV experience driven by a flexible, multi-standard engine that works with any compatible tuner (including a good number of analog tuner cards and all BDA digital tuner cards) to create portable recordings viewable on any Windows XP machine. Read More...
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Media Center Technical Discussion Series
03 April 06 11:52 AM | Peter Rosser | 9 Comments   
One of the more popular subjects for users who email me is how to get Media Center to do something that cannot be done (or is hard to do) from the UI. Since I have not been able to talk about my current work much (Windows Vista and unannounced other stuff) Read More...
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VoodooPC's 8TB Media Center PC
02 March 06 02:51 PM | Peter Rosser | 3 Comments   
From Engadget: When we heard that VoodooPC was planning a media PC with 16 drive bays and a maximum capacity of 8 terabytes... [ Read full posting on Engadget ] Sounds pretty cool--maybe I'll get one here to "test" with ^_^. Read More...
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DVB Guide issues - "cannot schedule recoding because guide data cannot be accessed"
15 February 06 11:27 PM | Peter Rosser | 9 Comments   
We have been getting reports about Guide problems from DVB users across Europe and the world, hopefully in time for the next Rollup release (external date not yet announced, but should be late Q1 to early Q2). The problem typically manifests itself when Read More...
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A Brief History of ATSC in Media Center
03 February 06 12:09 AM | Peter Rosser | 26 Comments   
In the beginning there was NTSC in Freestyle (Media Center 2002), and it was good. Media Center supported the #1 market and proved that computers could do a great job recording television, pausing Live TV, and organizing recordings. With support for one Read More...
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Fix for ATSC after uninstalling Rollup 2
24 January 06 11:24 AM | Peter Rosser | 2 Comments   
In some cases you may find that ATSC (HDTV) no longer works after uninstalling Media Center Rollup 2 from your computer. The issue is caused by a schema change in the Tuners registry key. Today I identified a workaround to get your ATSC back up and running Read More...
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DVB Radio "No TV Signal" Workaround
22 January 06 08:50 PM | Peter Rosser | 9 Comments   
I am currently investigating a fix for two DVB Radio issues identified a workaround for those affected. If you are getting a "No TV Signal" blue overlay when tuning to a DVB Radio station, particularly a low-bitrate station like BBC World Service, or Read More...
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Tell us about your Rollup 2 (and KB908250) problems
28 October 05 02:09 PM | Peter Rosser | 2 Comments   
Are you an MCE user experiencing problems since you installed Rollup 2 and/or KB908250? I want to hear about them. Comments will be moderated to reduce redundancy (and preserve anonymity), but I'd like to hear about any troubles you might be having. Read the full article for more information on submitting feedback. Read More...
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IEEE 1394 vs. UDCP
26 October 05 11:34 PM | Peter Rosser | 7 Comments   
I have been exchanging a couple of emails with Ray Maker, a fellow 'Softie, regarding whether IEEE 1394 recording is an "enthusiast" feature or more mainstream. I am of the opinion that it stands a good chance of being mainstream, and Ray thinks it more Read More...
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Recording over 1394 (Firewire) in Media Center
25 October 05 11:26 PM | Peter Rosser | 17 Comments   
There has been some recent effort to pry open the 1394 interface in various STBs (set-top boxes), most notably that of timmmoore's STB package that goes to extraordinary lengths to hook into Media Center's experience. The state of the world today, at Read More...
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The procedure entry point GetRequestedRuntimeVersion could not be located in the dynamic link library mscoree.dll
24 October 05 09:08 PM | Peter Rosser | 1 Comments   
Symptoms Aaron Stebner blogged this a few days ago, but some folks are still running into it, so I'll speak to it a bit. If you get an error dialog with the message " The procedure entry point GetRequestedRuntimeVersion could not be located in the dynamic Read More...
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MceRepair 0.2
21 October 05 10:20 PM | Peter Rosser | 21 Comments   
I've posted an update to MceRepair at http://www.pegasi.com/MceRepair_0.2.zip , which adds additional error logging in case of problems. If you tried 0.1 and it failed, 0.2 may work for you. If not, at least you will have more complete information with Read More...
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DRM Business Rules in Rollup 2
21 October 05 03:47 PM | Peter Rosser | 15 Comments   
To clarify the somewhat vague statement I made about "business rules" for DRM changing in Emerald (Rollup 2), the changes were to include the new COPP (Certified Output Protection Protocol) support in the release and to support the new version of the Read More...
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DRM in MCE Rollup 2
20 October 05 07:33 PM | Peter Rosser | 40 Comments   
I was posting to TheGreenButton.com and thought I'd save myself typing the same thing again, since it's good info, even if I am restating/repackaging existing opinion. The following is a response to people who thought for some reason that Rollup 2 was Read More...
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MceRepair 0.1 (alpha)
20 October 05 12:51 AM | Peter Rosser | 25 Comments   
Having gotten a little fed up with manually re-registering MCE files when MedCtrRO.exe fails, I have created a new command-line utility to automate the task. MceRepair.exe will: Repair the ACLs to get COM+ Services working again ( see KB909444 ) Repair Read More...
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