I’ve come up with somewhat of a workaround for the Media Center Black Screen of Death as discussed here: http://thegreenbutton.com/forums/t/84740.aspx My current solution, until either Microsoft or ATI comes up with a fix, is to attach a “task” to one of the events that the ATI drivers log in the system...
Introduction For the past few months, I’ve been working on and off with the Media Browser team to help create the ultimate media library solution for Media Center . I’ve come to realize that Media Browser’s folder based system has some major drawbacks and I’ve been unable to convince the team to switch...
I managed to get a hold of the “Early Access” version of Andy ’s ToDVRMS tool specifically to test out the WTV file creation features. So far, every h264 encoded Matroska file I’ve tried converted to WTV and played back properly in Media Center. There are a few issues however: ToDVRMS doesn’t support...
I originally posted this as a reply on The Green Button : http://thegreenbutton.com/forums/p/77948/387265.aspx And now I’m posting it here for mostly personal reference. I have problems with at least four 1080p and three 720p h264 files. The problem is basically what netscan02 said: ATI cards have issues...
Depending on the requirements of the project, install the appropriate version of .NET Framework . Install Media Center SDK . Either the Vista or 7 version should work. If your build machine is Windows Server 2008 , find an already running Windows Vista installation and copy Microsoft.MediaCenter.dll...
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It seems like all the buzz in the Media Center community lately is about DivX Labs latest project: A “Technology Preview” of Matroska support in Windows 7 . I’ve tried out their solution and it seems to work, however, I need to have subtitle support and alternative audio stream support (for reasons that...
UPDATE : Now that the Release Candidate (build 7100) of Windows 7 is out, only the Haali Media Splitter or the DivX Labs MKV Splitter are needed to get Matroska files playing in Media Center and Windows Media Player. However, neither splitter supports subtitles yet, so if you need subtitles, check out...