Threads Replies Last Post 2 Pages: 1  2   Why cant i tell Media Center to use desktop resolution When i first got vista i went through media centers wizard to configure it to my HDTV, coincidentally i use the HDTV as a monitor for my computer, its a nice setup. Anyway when i had originally installed vista i was having trouble with getting the resolution to fill the screen, this problem has since passed, and ive got it exactly within the dimensions of the TV. But now Media center is ... 12 12.07.2007 23:16:01 Cable Card Interface Has anyone had an opportunity to use a cable card with Vista? If so, how well did it work? I know ATI introduced something a couple of months ago but I heard nothing since. Tony ... 3 06.07.2007 17:56:02 Recording Movies from Movie Channels It appears that the recordings of all movie channel movies (or most of them) are blocked due to copyright infringements. Is Microsoft working on a deal OR a Patch for this problem? Or, do we now have to go to the added expense of purchasing digital cable boxes as well. This would mean to me that my TV computer was a big waist of money! -- EJ... 2 06.07.2007 13:52:45 Sync Only if Converted? I'm so close to having a nice automated set-up for syncing my TV shows from my Vista Media Center with my Windows Mobile 6 Pocket PC, but there's one catch that is very annoying. What I usually do is leave Windows Media Player on in the background, and it does its nice little thing of automatically converting my specified shows as they're recorded, and it's great! However, it takes... 1 02.07.2007 09:08:01 Silverstone LC17 AV style case Does anyone know what the above is like or in fact what the Silverstone cases are like? I've got a ATX size Gigabyte GA-P35-DQ6 board to go into it. Also interested if anyone has experienced any over-heating issues. http://www.xcase.co.uk/p/292545/silverstone-lascala-lc17-silver---no-psu--htpc-desktop-computer-case.html -- Simon Hart http://simonrhart.blogspot.com... 1 30.06.2007 14:56:02 Help!!! Why won't my Vista Home Premium MCE show pictures or video This is absolutely MADDENING! Whether I have the folder added to 'watched folders' or not, I see all of the folders and subfolders which contain my standard JPG images and MPG/WMV movies, but EVERY folder is empy in media center. Music works fine. I believe Vista MCE uses Windows Media Player 11 to display pictures and video. Could there be something messing with it from there? I ca... 1 28.06.2007 02:54:01 Shadow image with Media Center player I am using a Win CE 2005 connected to Sharp LC46G7 LCD monitor. I can play DVD with PowerDVD normally (except that it does not upscale to 1080p) However, if I use the MCE media center to watch TV or play DVD, then the screen always shows shadow image. Can anybody please help? Moreover, I don't know if Media center will do any upscale or not for DVD/TV? Thanks, Eric... 1 28.06.2007 02:44:00 Does Media Center run slower on secondary monitor in extended mode Hello! Does Media Center run slower on the secondary monitor in the extended mode? Is there any video player which runs on the secondary monitor in the extended mode as fast as on the primary monitor? Can anyone run two monitors in the mirror mode in their two different native resolutions? How to make Windows Vista Media Center component run on the second monitor in the extended mode alw... 1 26.06.2007 10:16:02 How to make Windows Vista Media Center run on the second monitor? Hello! How to make Windows Vista Media Center component run on the second monitor in the extended mode? I want to buy a video card with outputs for two monitors and connect its d-sub output to my HDTV Samsung 32R71B and use it as a secondary monitor in the Extended mode. I want to watch video files on the 32R71B and control the playback from a remote control. Which remote control should... 1 26.06.2007 09:19:00 internet explorer shows blank drop down menus when I'm using a browser in this case IE and want to make a choice in a drop down (pull down) menu I click and the box appears, with the blue line but no text. Has this happened to anyone else? I've asked around and no one seems to have heard of the problem. It happened when I wanted to post this question... ... 2 20.06.2007 05:57:07 Multiple Monitors / Multiple Sound Hi All, I am designing a MCE system and was wondering about Sound on Multiple Monitors. I want to be able to have a user using the MCE PC as a desktop, carrying out basic tasks, WORD, EXCEL Etc. At the same time having a TV connected showing the Full MCE experience, for a different user who say is watching TV. How is the sound handled? If the PC users trips an error message in Word and ... 1 19.06.2007 11:57:01 Dolby Digital Sound Set up - Directv and DVD I am trying to figure out how to get Dolby Digital sound from my Directv receiver which has a digital optical out to my MCE PC and then through to my Yamaha receiver. The MCE has a tv tuner card with two S video inputs and two single RCA jack sound inputs. The audio card has a orange colored digital out. How do you go about connecting all this up? What settings do I set on my MCE PC... 10 14.06.2007 19:14:20 Vista MC Streaming to rest of House? Guys, Very interesting reading the threads within this forum. I've just got Vista Home with MC and very impressed with its functionality. I'm about to move house and want to pipe Media Center throughout my entire house (3 TV's and a Projector). I've setup my old machine with Vista (still high spec) with an NVidia 6800GT installed with HDI outs, I'm planning on the aerial output from ... 9 08.06.2007 10:07:45 Media Center with touchscreen Has anyone used windows media center with a touchscreen? The "normal" XP Media Center could not be used with a touchscreen. I heard the XP media center tablet pc could be operated using a touchscreen (Have not found any conformation yet) And now, windows vista media center, seems to operate using a touchscreen. Has someone tried it? ... 5 30.05.2007 07:18:30 Dropped frames in Vista Media Center Live and Recorded TV Using what we believe to be an adequate system (see configuration below), we see dropped frames in Live and Recorded TV. The dropped frame rate appears to be somewhat dependent on the content: Signal Res Content Dropped frame rate Digital 1080 Typical network fare 4 per hour (good) Digital 720 Fast action sports 2 per minute (very poo... 10 23.05.2007 22:08:25 Vista EPG issues with OTA broadcast Hello folks, The EPG in Vista fails to discover the minor channels (I had to add them) and does not contain correct program information for the digital channels. Only information for analog channels are available. I wonder if anyone here can tell me how to: 1) Is it possible to do a channel scan like a regular TV, to address the missing channel issue? Doesn't Media Center only nee... 1 23.05.2007 01:29:24 spdif/headphone out not working mystery.... hi i cannot get any audio outut from my mspdif/headphone socket anymore. yesterday it worked fine now its broken. if i plug a ack into the socket the computer recognises that something ha been plugged in but there is no sound. my computers internal speakers work fine still. i've also noticed that on the windowsmaster volume control panel te spdif volume control is present but cannot b... 1 20.05.2007 09:19:07 Audio Synch on Burned DVD Just got my HP M8020n Media Center PC. Last night I recorded 24 using an over the air antennae in High Definition. Since I have not connected my PC to my TV yet I burned it to a DVD to see how well it works. I used Media Center to burn the DVD. It burned slowly to about 31% and hung for a while. I instead watched it in low def using my PVR and by the end of the show the media center DVD ... 4 19.05.2007 02:17:36 output to tv Just installed a video card- nvidea 8500gt- in new dell e521 with 22" monitor and running home premium. Have monitor connected via DVI cable and a 32" conventional TV connected with an "s " video cable. Getting good output to monitor but limited output to TV.How do i set media centre it up to play recorded Tv back thru TV? Thanks for any Help... 6 17.05.2007 02:32:29 How to retrieve "Message" on STB I have a Motorola DTC700 STB. It is connected to my Vaio MCE desktop running MCE 2004 (I think). The red LED on the set top box is lit, indicating a "message". How to I retrieve this message? Thanks for any help. David A.... 4 15.05.2007 01:10:59 Media Sharing vs Shared Folders? Guys, Is there any advantage to using the 'Media Sharing' features of Windows Media Player as opposed to just sharing the folders in which the media resides? Cheers, @sh ... 1 14.05.2007 11:48:35 New HTPC Specs Just wondering if these would be good for a HTPC: Processor: Pentium Celeron D 2.8 Memory: 2 x 512MB DDR-2 memory And which would be the better o/s, Vista Home Premium or XP Media Centre Edition? ... 4 14.05.2007 11:42:55 Decoder Error Hi, I Media Center PC with Black Gold Digital Tuner. I am trying to watch a DVD using the Media Center but it came up with Decode Error malfunction or not installed. I also tried to watch to watch using the Windows Media Player 10 but also came up with a decoder error. -- vhizy ------------------------------------------------------------------------ vhizy's Profile: http://forums.techarena... 6 13.05.2007 19:39:47 Hauppauge Nova T 500 and standby Hi everyone, I would be grateful for some help. I built an XP media center which has been working well for 6 months. Now MC wakes up from standby, either from MST or manually and the twin Hauppauge tuners are either being used by another program or are not installed. Nothing has actually changed! when I reboot everything is fine until I go to standby. This is purely an MCE machine wi... 1 06.05.2007 21:43:36 Vista ultamate Usb Tv Tuner Hi all First message here but have done a bit of searching. Problem is I have vista ultamate and when I setup the tv signal it finds and name 74 of them, but when you go to veiw it says no signal received, I have been told its got something to do with the way vista rounds up or down the frequency (not sure if this is true). Anyhow the receiver works fine in Avermedia so I know it works... 1 06.05.2007 15:14:39 2 Pages: 1  2