Tag: Media Center Programs

In an interesting development, Calrad has announced that they will be developing integrated playback of Blu-ray into XLobby. It’s always good news to see more companies working on providing access to HD video. XLobby.com We have received our licensed S3-1080P card and Bluray DVD drive as well as a license to playback material. So we will be testing systems over […]

Ian Dixon is always hard at work putting together great information for the Media Center Community. Most recently, he put together a video showing how to setup an HP Windows Home Server. The value added software that you get with the HP server such as photo sharing and iTunes software really make it a smart investment over a DIY WHS […]

Good news for WHS users! A public beta of the forthcoming Power Pack 1 is set to hit the public in may. Power Pack 1 includes the fix to the possible data corruption bug that can affects a small set of users. We Got Server Should you wish to be part of the public beta in May, visit http://connect.microsoft.com/WindowsHomeServer to […]

It seems the WHS team will be delaying the release of Power Pack 1 to coincide with the release of the notorious corruption bug fix.  PP1 will have some nice (and needed) features when it does hit the streets. Technet The Windows Home Server Storage and Test teams feel strongly that a combined release is the best option because it […]

Ian’s up again, and he’s got one of the big wigs over at Microsoft, Scott Evans, discussing some stuff. A good listen as always, so listen in. Also, don’t forget to submit your Media Center images over to Ian for his Ultimate Media Center Enthusiast contest. Show Times: 00:50 Coming up this week 01:35 Email – Should you learn MCML? […]

In a nice little nod to the hard work of MlbDude, Watter, Dirk (Flachbar), Mike (MeInMaui), and all of the dedicated plug-in developers, SageTV finally has given the SageMC STV it’s own official forum.  Hopefully this will encourage more community development and cause a lot less confusion.  SageTV It has been requested for a while and now here it is: a subforum […]

According to Chris L. and EngadgetHD , Vista’s next beta is inching closer and closer. Opt-in agreements have been sent out, not to me :(, oh wel! The big deal for this beta appears to be DirecTV support. Everything else appears to be rumour at this point. Users (who shall remain nameless, because I edited them out) at The Green […]

GBPVR 1.2.9 is now available! With any new version comes a heapin’ ole pile of change. Nothing really stands out from the change list but it does look like Sub went through a lot of effort to polish, mature if you will, GBPVR. GBPVR is a freeware program developed by Sub in his spare time. If you read through the […]

I thought that our VAST MythTV audience would be interested to know that the MythTV developers have released version 0.21 this evening.  Here is a link to the release notes.  They give a detailed overview of what has been improved.  RPMs will be available shortly from ATRPMs, or you can grab the source here.  Now, go get your open source […]