Media Center Programs
This announcement came as a complete shock to me, but it would seem to be a great move by MS, pulling in the great "home" aspects of Windows Home Server, but building in some of the more enterprise-oriented features of Aurora (Windows Small Business Server 2011), like being able to join an Active Directory domain. This could turn out to […]
Read moreIt’s that time for a new Cumulative Update for your Win7 MCE systems. Just a couple major items fixed here, but major nonetheless. As always, proceed at your own risk and always make sure to take a system snapshot before doing the update just in case. The October 2010 Cumulative Update for Windows Media Center in Windows 7 resolves the […]
Read moreTim passed along this new release from the MythTV folks for those of you enjoying this free HTPC software on Linux. Looks like some big strides. MythTV .24 will include exciting new features such as a completely rewritten and themeable OSD (On Screen Display), support for 24 bit audio and HD audio formats, initial Blu-ray disc support, experimental support for […]
Read moreToday must be the day of pairs. Ok, maybe I’m a day late on this news, but great news for you free HTPC software fans as XBMC and Plex (for Mac) have released new builds. Looks like Plex ran into some issues with theirs, but appear to be actively working on fixing it. Either way it’s great to see both […]
Read moreI was surprised nobody else posted this, but our friends at Boxee continue churning out nice improvements, this time with some nice Movie Libraries. Still awesome, and still FREEEEE So just to recap: Boxee now has a movie library it has thousands of movies from multiple sources the movie library has titles available for users around the globe we’re still […]
Read moreSageTV’s *.13 rev of the V7 beta just arrived. They fixed a whole bunch of issues and adding a few new features. Go get it! New features: -Category view in the Video Browser, with options to edit categories and also parental ratings for imported videos -Merged SageTVTranscoder with latest public version; should resolve many transcoding issues; we also added […]
Read moreIf you’ve been looking to get your feet wet in the HTPC world but don’t want to pay a dime for your software, you should probably give Media Portal a shot. Great project that have been improving over time. I haven’t used it in a while, but looks like they’ve made a ton of improvements. The development of MediaPortal was […]
Read morePretty cool first look at Arcsoft’s 3D plugin if you’re interested. Not surprisingly, it costs extra, but only $20. Probably not much value in this since there’s only a few 3D Blu-rays available today, but I’d imagine that list to grow soon. The 3D simulation is what I have tested and I have beeen remarkably impresed with. The extra depth […]
Read moreMy main man Schreck from Microsoft’s Media Center team has posted word of a new Windows Update specially for Media Center. Grab it today if you’re experiencing any of the following issues. If your MCE is running flawless, I would not risk it…but that’s just my opinion. Addresses an issue where, if DRM is revoked, an overly directs customers to […]
Read moreI don’t use VLC on a regular basis, but it has never failed me when it comes to playing virtually any filetype. I know a lot of you use it here, so you’ll be happy to know there’s a new version. If so then you’ll already know that it has been updated to version 1.1.0. The biggest feature in this […]
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