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Out of interest - does anybody here actually use Media Center? (Or
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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 |
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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 |
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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/w.../feature-packs |
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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/w.../feature-packs Thanks all. Will get it while it's free and cautiously play with it... |
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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/w.../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 |
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