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February 10, 2012 at 3:34 pm #6851
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    thanks again for the great responses.  i want to make sure I have all the info before I talk to the wife about changing our current setup, hah.

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    [quote]Does WMC allow other PC’s to act as extenders?[/quote]

    Again No. This has been one of the reasons many went to SageTV and elsewhere, but extenders are honestly just as good.

     

    [quote]If I want to access media files on the recording PC from another PC on my network does WMC act as the GUI or do I have to use a typical file manager (like windows explorer) to access the content?[/quote]

    You can share your recorded tv folder and load it up on another PC, using the Media Center UI, you just can’t share tuners, and the guide data from the “main” Media Center PC. There are apps out there that will share your guide data but they still will not share your tuners.

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    I have extra PC’s, I don’t have any extenders like an xbox.

    just a few more specific questions:

    1)Assume I have PC1 with a cablecard tuner and PC2 is a laptop on my network, both running win7.  If PC1 records a show that is set to be DRM flagged can I then use WMC to watch that recorded show on PC2 at a later time or is it only accessible using PC1?

    2)Can I use PC2 to initiate a recording using the tuners in PC1?

    from your response it sounds like 1) would be possible, but i wanted to verify if DRM flag would prevent it.  I wasn’t sure what you meant by share the guide but not the tuner (what good is a guide if you cant tune anything).

     

    3)Can existing recordings I have from Sage be easily imported into WMC (probably ~400 recordings)?

    4)If I were to use something like “WMC Recording Storage Pooler” would all recordings be accessible or only the ones on the currently ‘active’ recording drive?