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Rest in Peace Media Center
http://www.zdnet.com/article/rip-windows-media-center/ Alternatives are available in one form or another. The usual grumbling and support will obviously attempt to voice concern. -- ...winston msft mvp consumer apps |
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". . .winston" wrote in message
... Rest in Peace Media Center http://www.zdnet.com/article/rip-windows-media-center/ Alternatives are available in one form or another. The usual grumbling and support will obviously attempt to voice concern. That's a bugger. If I get a PC to replace my Win 7 PC I'll have to find a new way of recording TV. There's NextPVR which seems quite good and there are proprietary apps which come with USB DVB-T adaptors. WTV and DVR-MS are good file formats because they contain everything in the one file - video, audio, subtitles and metadata (eg plot summary). TS, which NextPVR uses, does most of this but you lose the metadata. Shame that MS pulled the plug on MediaCentre. Why are MS so appallingly bad about producing apps which will work with all versions of Windows? Outlook Express (XP) wouldn't work on Vista; Windows Mail (Vista) wouldn't work on 7. Now Media Centre (7 and 8) won't work on 10. They seem to weld these apps into the operating system instead of making a self-contained installation file which will install on any version of Windows. I'd quite happily install WMC from 7 on 10 if it were possible, even if there were no new updates to it. I've lost count of the number of times I'm one of the tiny minority that actually uses a product or service which is cancelled for lack of interest. Evidently I'm not a sheep that follows the herd :-) I have no interest in recording to a Sky box or a PVR because the recordings are usually stuck on the box and can't be modified (eg editing out continuity announcements and adverts), backed up to a second disk or organised into a folder structure (eg films, drama, documentaries). And you don't get a way of *proving* that a recording has been scheduled remotely when you're way from home - Sky's ability to do this sends a request but you've no way of confirming that the box has received it. |
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On Sun, 3 May 2015 10:40:16 +0100, NY wrote:
Rest in Peace Media Center http://www.zdnet.com/article/rip-windows-media-center/ Alternatives are available in one form or another. The usual grumbling and support will obviously attempt to voice concern. That's a bugger. If I get a PC to replace my Win 7 PC I'll have to find a new way of recording TV. There's NextPVR which seems quite good and there are proprietary apps which come with USB DVB-T adaptors. WTV and DVR-MS are good file formats because they contain everything in the one file - video, audio, subtitles and metadata (eg plot summary). TS, which NextPVR uses, does most of this but you lose the metadata. If you read the article it has a link to an alternative, Media Portal, which looks quite competent. -- Faster, cheaper, quieter than HS2 and built in 5 years; UKUltraspeed http://www.500kmh.com/ |
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". . .winston" wrote in message ... Rest in Peace Media Center http://www.zdnet.com/article/rip-windows-media-center/ Alternatives are available in one form or another. The usual grumbling and support will obviously attempt to voice concern. -- ...winston msft mvp consumer apps Is it possible to uninstall Media Center from win8.1pro, win7 and vista? |
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"Stormin' Norman" wrote in message ... On Sun, 3 May 2015 18:41:25 +0300, "Live" wrote: ". . .winston" wrote in message ... Rest in Peace Media Center http://www.zdnet.com/article/rip-windows-media-center/ Alternatives are available in one form or another. The usual grumbling and support will obviously attempt to voice concern. -- ...winston msft mvp consumer apps Is it possible to uninstall Media Center from win8.1pro, win7 and vista? You can "disable" it. See: http://www.wikihow.com/Disable-Windows-Media-Center Be forewarned, doing this can create some problems. See: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2606237 Thank you, I know how to disable it but I want to uninstall it. |
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Live wrote:
Is it possible to uninstall Media Center from win8.1pro, win7 and vista? Thank you, I know how to disable it but I want to uninstall it. Media Center is a selectable Windows feature - included with the o/s or an add-on to the o/s. It can be turned on or off. An uninstaller is not included. For Win 8.1 Pro it was an add-on which upon adding the feature changed the product key (and the product key, if not already, to a retail Windows version). To remove Media Center completely, reinstall Windows 8.1 and use the original 8.1 Product key, not the one provided with Media Center. -- ...winston msft mvp consumer apps |
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Live wrote:
"Stormin' Norman" wrote in message ... On Sun, 3 May 2015 18:41:25 +0300, "Live" wrote: ". . .winston" wrote in message ... Rest in Peace Media Center http://www.zdnet.com/article/rip-windows-media-center/ Alternatives are available in one form or another. The usual grumbling and support will obviously attempt to voice concern. -- ...winston msft mvp consumer apps Is it possible to uninstall Media Center from win8.1pro, win7 and vista? You can "disable" it. See: http://www.wikihow.com/Disable-Windows-Media-Center Be forewarned, doing this can create some problems. See: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2606237 Thank you, I know how to disable it but I want to uninstall it. On Windows 8, installing the Media Center option adds two CODECs to the system. This allows DVD playback for example, so it could be some sort of MPEG decoder. That's about all you get of any value from the Media Center (if you don't own a tuner to do recordings with). I have Media Center on one of my two copies of Windows 8 here, and hardly even know it is there. Because I have no Media Center compatible tuner for it. I see no reason to remove it. I only installed it, because the license key for the added feature was being given away for free at the time. Paul |
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