media centre

[Peter Roe[_2_]]

Out of interest - does anybody here actually use Media Center? (Or
centre) :-)

What advantage does it have over VLC or similar?

[BillW50]

On 12/23/2012 11:12 AM, Peter Roe wrote:
> Out of interest - does anybody here actually use Media Center? (Or
> centre) :-)
>
> What advantage does it have over VLC or similar?

The Media Center isn't really a media player per se. Sure it does this
and a whole lot more. Here this will give you lots of details about it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Media_Center

--
Bill
Gateway M465e ('06 era) - Thunderbird v12
Centrino Core2 Duo T7400 2.16 GHz - 4GB - Windows 8

[Andy Burns]

Peter Roe wrote:

> Out of interest - does anybody here actually use Media Center? (Or
> centre) :-)

Once in a blue moon, I have a DVB-T tuner in my laptop and it's
convenient, though I have used VLC with tuners in the past, it's not so
friendly

[Rob]

On 24/12/2012 4:12 AM, Peter Roe wrote:
> Out of interest - does anybody here actually use Media Center? (Or
> centre) :-)
>
> What advantage does it have over VLC or similar?


Media pack for W8 free at present.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-8/feature-packs

[Peter Roe[_2_]]

On 24/12/2012 05:02, Rob wrote:
> On 24/12/2012 4:12 AM, Peter Roe wrote:
>> Out of interest - does anybody here actually use Media Center? (Or
>> centre) :-)
>>
>> What advantage does it have over VLC or similar?
>
>
> Media pack for W8 free at present.
>
> http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-8/feature-packs
>
Thanks all. Will get it while it's free and cautiously play with it...

[Paul]

Peter Roe wrote:
> On 24/12/2012 05:02, Rob wrote:
>> On 24/12/2012 4:12 AM, Peter Roe wrote:
>>> Out of interest - does anybody here actually use Media Center? (Or
>>> centre) :-)
>>>
>>> What advantage does it have over VLC or similar?
>>
>>
>> Media pack for W8 free at present.
>>
>> http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-8/feature-packs
>>
> Thanks all. Will get it while it's free and cautiously play with it...

So far with MCE, I managed to mount an ISO9660 containing a
non-commercial movie, and with the GSpot information appliance, was
able to render a VOB file to screen (audio and video). There was one
small problem, where I got an error trying to render just the video
track by itself. But playing both video and audio at the same time
worked. The CODEC used and mentioned, was:

Microsoft DTV DVD Video Decoder

The CODEC count claims to have gone from 99 to 101, from Windows 8 Pro
to Windows 8 Pro + MCE key. So the difference between the two options
is pretty small. At least so far.

I haven't fired up MCE program yet, to test it. I have a WinTV
card, but I doubt it'll be able to use it. I have an OTA digital
settop box connected to the WinTV card (comes in on composite input).
I can't see how I'll "get the MCE full effect", when I have such
crappy hardware for it. And my OTA channel count is too low to
bother buying a proper tuner.

Paul