Comments on: A frustrating Media Center Weekend

By: Rich

Rich — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 13:33:02 +0000

Tivo with a lifetime subscription combined with WHS and the Tivo Publisher add-on and you cant go wrong.

I know it’s a large expense initially but you will save time and headaches later. We have had our WHS box for almost a year and the first tivo for 6 months. We loved how they played so well together that we got another tivo for the upstairs HDTV and we will never look back. No more noisy computers or game consoles running while we are trying to watch TV, Tivo and WHS are the cats @ss solution.

Tivo also distibutes “Tivo Desktop Plus” just incase you want to transfer shows to computer or watch them on your ipod.

All around a great solution.

By: Bruce Jones

Bruce Jones — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 17:17:34 +0000

I got my ripped DVD’s to work from a shared storage device by doing a “map network drive” (e.g. Z: is equivalent to \\Maxtor\Public\DVD ). I’m using Vista WMC. Did the same for a network folder that has WMV files.

I right clicked “My Computer” and followed the instructions to “Map Network Drive”.

Good luck.

By: Anthony H

Anthony H — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 12:30:52 +0000

Ditch VMC. I know I did and have replaced it with Media Portal. Check it out and see what you think.

http://www.team-mediaportal.com/

By: Andrew

Andrew — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 19:43:28 +0000

Afraid not, VMC doesn’t have support for playlists of videos

By: anaiulius

anaiulius — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 21:10:34 +0000

i want to see a video playlist in vista media center. is it posible ? it seems i am too stupid to do it.
thanks