I'm sure this is something that's been covered before, but I'm stumped. I have been using these WMC on several machines without incident. I just installed it on a new Win10 machine. Installed without incident. 103 channels. But when I go to Live TV, no playback on any channel (but also no error)....

I am considering upgrading an existing Windows Media Center 7 system that has recordings flagged as Copy None/Copy Once (after all, it's not regular TV, it's HBO). I tried to do a dry run using a test system (Windows 7 to Windows 8.1 Pro) and it seemed like the upgrade wiped WMC before I could get...

With WMC 7, there's been an issue that cropped up in the last few months.
One cannot activate play ready anymore, meaning the copy protected channels are unviewable.
Has anyone activated this play ready garbage on a WMC 8 system recently?

I freaking can't stand DRM. It only keeps honest people...

Is there anyway to get Movie Posters (artwork) back when you move to a new computer. I use EPG123 and Ceton My Media Center on Windows 8.1. Newly recorded shows get poster art, and some of the earlier recordings have them but the vast majority do not. I have searched the topics here and have not...

Hello,

Im quite new to the HTPC scene and i recently built a new HTPC, im quite happy with it so far, the community here was also a good source of information regarding this :)
There is however 1 thing that i cant solve, and that is the resolution of windows when my TV is not on, basically the...

My Windows 8MC goes to a (mostly) black screen after 10 minutes of activity. I want it either to stay on, or go to a screensaver. With my new QD-OLED, when it goes to the black screen it appears to be off, and the TV can get left on. But none of the screensaver or power settings seem to matter -...

Throughout the years, we have purchased computers and most all were replaced and thrown away except for the original 2005 SONY VAIO VGX-XL1A Digital Living System with Media Center. Personally I think it’s a handsome machine with its minimalist design. Nevermind the specs even when it was new it...

Don't know if anyone is srill paying attention here but I have a weird problem. Since last week when I go to a certain channel (and it only happens on this one channel) It won't play live tv and tells me 'The broadcaster prohibits this content from being copied'.
I'm not trying to watch a recording...

Hi.
As of recently my CD/DVD drive is no longer recognised except in Control Panel/Device Manager. It shows in this location but with an exclamation mark in a yellow triangle. A click on said drive brings up the Properties box with this message under the General tab:

Windows cannot load the...

My father-in-law likes to record the nightly news but for some reason they are not honoring the series option. We’re set to record new and rerun, but it still has issues.

I’ve cleared out the entire recording schedule and set it up from scratch, but the issue persists. Any thoughts or suggestions?...

I recently started experiencing choppy live tv playback under WMC 8.1 (x64). I've tried updating my video drivers to the latest version and have also tried K-Lite and Shark007 codecs. I'm running a Hauppauge WinTV-DCR-2650 dual tv tuner using a Verizon FioS cable card and EPG123. System specs:...

Today, for the first time, I'm not able to update my virus definitions. Anybody else seeing this? I hope it's just a glitch.

I followed this post a few years ago:

I verified I have the Recording task is set to Windows 8.1 Compatibility, and the system at one point was able to Wake to record, then just stopped waking. I recall there is a tool to troubleshoot issues with a system not entering Sleep, but what about Wake...

So today I discovered, after looking at my latest recordings, that I got the can only play this content on the same computer....blah, blah, blah. The only change was I redirected where to save the recordings were saved ( a different hard drive on the same computer) as the previous one was filling...

Well, Playready did it again, but I don't think it was the pointed to folder for recordings. last night I found WMC lost the tuners sometime during the day, no recording all day and no live TV so rebooted and all was well, or so I thought. Woke up this morning to protected channel recordings with...

Woke up this morning and my XBox 360 extenders were complaining about not being able to record shows. Logged into the Windows 8.1 MCE and noticed that EPG was red and complaining. Noticed a couple things:

===============================================================================
Activating...

Chromium web browsers now feature a persistent warning banner about use on unsupported operating system when launched on Windows 7 and 8.
I wouldn't recommend using an old O/S for heavy web browsing, but the banner can be annoying if streaming video.
It can be permanently disabled with the...

My Win 8.1 installation of WMC has been stable for years. I have both Ceton and Silicondust cable card tuners, and I'm using EPG123 and Schedules Direct for guide data. Recently (ish) WMC has been randomly asking to update Playready. It will work for days/weeks, then the Playready update message...

Windows 8.1 support ends this week, but I turned off updates a little while back after one broke WMC. So I can't see much changing. Still using and enjoying WMC after eight years. My Win 8.1 PC is in the bedroom closet, and my husband and I mainly watch in the den with an Xbox 360.

That said, for...

I have WMC working just fine on my Windows 7 Ultimate system using an HDHomeRun PRIME and 2 dual tuners for ATSC1. I have an older HP 17 Pavilion laptop running Windows 8.1 that I wanted to run WMC on since the laptop is connected via HDMI to my TCL Roku TV which is on another floor from my Win7...

I am trying to figure out how to get an InfiniTV working with MCE on a virtual machine and the card installed in the host. I was going to go with Windows 8.1 Pro which is what my current system is running but for some reason I can't find the option to install WMC anywhere. Not in that area under...

OK have a good one for you folks I think. I have a computer that's been running MCE with a InfiniTV 4 and obviously CableCard since like 2011 maybe earlier probably when my last system was built. Still love it. Historically I know when my InfiniTV failed and had to replace it, Comcast couldn't get...

I'm using version 1.7.1.12 of the EPG123 guide. It works great, with one exception. Every few days, like this morning for example, the daily update fails, citing the following from the trace log:

Exiting RunWmcIndexTask(PvrScheduleTask). SUCCESS.
Entering RunWmcIndexTask(ReindexSearchRoot)...

Fail to complete the automatic mapping of lineup stations to tuner

I had to do a reset of my WMC Setup. All went well- did not opt in to WMC guide- aand no Guide shown on home page.
Save and Eecuted my Subscribed Lineups. All went well until near the end when this error message appeared in red...

My media center will record without problems and also play live TV. When I play recorded programs, after a certain amount of time, my WMC shuts down and the monitor goes to sleep. No matter what I do the only way to bring it back is to press the start /stop button on the PC. Under programs and...

LOL This is getting stoopid, a fresh install after a crash, lost my DRM programs, now this. 4 times, shut off windows firewall no security apps almost clean install.
Wired internet, no issues surfing.

At the end of activating digital cable
cant watch protected content until internet is...

I've been waiting for the 5000 series Ryzen 5700G and now that they are available. I want to upgrade Windows 7 Media Center to Windows 8.1 Media Center because I want to upgrade to 64-bit so I can allocate 2GB to the frame buffer to the APU.

Is anybody using the slightly older Ryzen 3400G or...

I have a fresh Windows 8 Release Preview install of MediaCenter. When I try to add a recording using the Search method I see this warning down in the lower right corner: SEARCH RESULTS MAY BE INCOMPLETE BECAUSE THE GUIDE LISTINGS ARE STILL BEING INDEXED
Any idea how I get the guide to be indexed?

Backup DRM keys for WMC So you can watch previously recorded programs?

Its time to roll back to a previous win 8 on marcum reflect. How do you save the DRM keys. I know you can do it, I have years ago, but that memory cache has been cleared... :D

Hey everyone, I have been running without issue for a very long time. Yesterday I happened to notice my EPG icon was red, checked the log and said no tuners and couldn't update the mxf. I opened WMC to my surprise it had reset itself. While inconvenient due to my lengthy recording list, not the end...

My search stopped working all of a sudden, a couple days ago I think. I do TV > Search > Title and start typing search terms. No matter what, I get No results were found.

Anyone else seeing this? Weird.

I am having strange issues with two hard drives which are attached via internal sata connections.

I have attempted to add the folders to the video library several times and MCE says it's imported the files.

When I click on the folders view, it won't display any folders. However, when I click on...

:o :o Hi,

I HAD- WMC running on win8 for 3 years after screwing around with trying to do it on 10 for years...

short go of it- last update for my hd homerun installed new C= software, I think.

WMC won't run, go to start up a fresh install screen even after actually finishing it and it's working...

I previously ran WMC in Win 7 64-bit with a Hauppauge HVR-2250 Tuner card and had it pretty well customized, but upgraded to Win8 Pro (now 8.1) in 2013 and obtained the Windows Media center pack. Since that time, I have not been able to get WMC to see my Tuner card - In setup it keeps saying tuner...

But I can not seem to change the scheduled task

attached is jpg screenshot.

Thanks. hopefully someone has had this issue too..

John

Yesterday morning I finally did the Tuesday Windows updates on my Windows 8.1 PC I use to record TV.
Last night WMC was unable to record.
Tried manually and WMC was unable to start the external HD Home Run tuners.
Right mouse clicked on a show in the Guide and selected Record .
Highlighted with a...

Yesterday when I opened WMC to watch TV, I only had the option to watch Recorded TV or to setup live TV. Not sure how that happened, but when I try set it up again, it always fails.

I am running Windows 8.1 with a Ceton InfiniTV4. During setup, I am using 00000 as my zip code. I decline the...

I have recently been trying to make my WMC headless . I use CetonProxy with Emby and generally have a great experience. The Emby app is available on a wide range of platforms and makes my Live TV and and Recordings available everywhere, from a tablet to a phone. The only catch of course is no DRM...

My worst nightmare has happened...

My computer was being very slow and unresponsive, so I tried to restart it. It spun on the restarting screen for about 20 minutes, so I force shut down the computer by holding the power button, which I have had to do many times before without issue.

When I...

im new to WMC and uhhh i dont see the internet tv thing that is in screenshots of the program

I've had a heck of a time trying to figure this one out on my own, so I come to the forums. My machine wakes up to record just fine, but then never goes back to sleep. I don't think I have anything else running, but may be I'm missing something. Any ideas?

Thanks!

edit: I am aware the RDP...

I have Windows 8 Pro installed. If I purchase the media center, can it play local video and Netflix with a remote? (Without needing a trackpad/mouse?)

Also, how good is it at handling unusual video file types?

This is a weird situation which I hope someone can help me to resolve.
Set up is Windows 8.1 with WMC utilising EPG123 programme guide.
Up until about three weeks ago everything was fine and then strange things started happening.
If a programme is set to record outside 'normal' watching hours e.g....

I can't find my key anymore, does anyone know what the email was sent as or have an extra/know where to buy them still? Maybe it's not worth the struggle since there's a work around to get it on 10, but my HD Homerun was having a few issues with that and extenders on 10.

Another strange problem that I'm sure is on media center.
Spectrum channel 227 here is insp channel and when I use their box the channel comes in fine but shows no signal in WMC.
Any ideas?

Looks like M$ took it down. Where can I find it?

I have a strange problem running win 8.1 and WMC. There is ONE and only ONE channel that has audio but no video just a black screen. I have 2 separate systems running WMC and they both have lost video on that channel.
ALL other channels and WMC as a whole is working fine.
Any ideas on what to look...

Hello,
I have win 8.1 installed. I installed WMC 8.83 because I cannot find my copy of media pack. This almost works perfectly. There is one problem which I have attempted to solve but without success. I keep getting the message, Display Driver Error. The video playback device does not support...

So I had to store my HTPC for a couple of months, and now we are ready to bring it back online, however the tuners are not recognized. I really hope I don't have issues like in the beginning of the year with PlayReady, etc. Does anyone have an 8.1 WMC still working? I will use a 3 tuner CC and a 2...

Posted many months ago, still no service but I have not given up yet. When I go to : Under Tuning Adapter I get TR status: Disabled. Can someone verify if this is this normal?

Hello everyone, from next year in Italy they start with the switch off dvb-t2, at the moment there are test channels and despite having a compatible hauppauge dvb-t2 WMC tv card does not lock the frequencies.
On the net I found a page of the TBS blog store (https:...

I can't figure this out. I have a vizio soundbar with arc. It works great for about 10 minutes then it makes a pop and WMC says it can't find the files need to play.
I skip the soundbar and plug it streight into the tv and it works fine. Unplugged the soundbar and plugged everything back in. Try...

I still have my HP 9300 windows 7,cable labs certified computer. Also a windows 8.1 WMC computer that will not get the new DRM fox channels,which my windows 7 computer pickup.
Playready is the screw that is stopping the 6 turner prime.
Digital cable advisor and playready in winscrew 8.1 is stopping...

I am running media center on windows 8.1 and have and xbox in another room as my extender. It has worked perfectly for years.
Now it has started to just quit playing. No error messages and when I go to the menu and then rerun media center about 50% of the time that doesn't work.
So now its almost...

To spare the SSD system drive of write cycles I've always had the Recorded TV directory on an external USB disk drive (traditional rotating rust platter).
Today decided I'd like to put the guide/database their too.

Figure to create a symbolic link from C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\eHome\ to...

1) WMC on 8.1 Pro (Dell XPS laptop) & would like to cast/mirror to HDTV (Sony GoogleTV)
2) Laptop is ethernet-connected to LAN (TP-Link AC-1750 Router) - laptop does not have HDMI port (does have DVI)
3) Have Roku Express, FireTV box, Chromecast, PLEX (no Pass yet) & PlayOn Desktop
4) Unable to see...

Since the latest Windows update, media centre now crashes when displaying my music albums.

Normally it displays them in Album Artist order. When I scroll across to artists beginning with P , media centre program crashes and restarts.

If I switch to album order, it crashes and restarts somewhere...

Hi,

Is it at all possible to play protected wtv files on the same computer that has now been upgraded to Windows 8.1? The original protected files were recorded on the same device when it had Windows 7 installed. Has anyone succeeded in doing this?

I upgraded my computer from 7 to 8.1 for support...

Has anyone ever tried using a screen recording program to record programs on WMC? If so, does anyone have a suggestion for a screen recording program that records in high quality and is able to use the system audio? I would use the XBox Game Bar but of course that's only available on W10.

My cable...

Hello,

I have InfiniTV ETH6 Tuner(I Know there is another forum that specifically discusses Ceton InfiniTV, but at this point I don't think it's hardware).
I have been running in dual boot mode with Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 Pro. Win 7 system is still fine, getting WMC to work on 8.1 Pro has been...

Hi everyone, I have an HDHomeRun Prime with Windows 8.1 Media Center edition.

I just moved to a new apartment and switched TV providers. (Cox to Fios) With Cox, I was able to tune to channel 1007 for my local ABC (WJLA) and all was well. With Fios, it's channel 7.1 When tuning to channel 7.1 in...

So now that I know that my move to Window 8 will work, I do a Custom install on my only working MCE box, and I get the message The product key is already being used on another PC. Try a different key, or buy a new one.

So I sill have my VM, but it is not running. How do I uninstall the key in the...

I read all the posts in regards to this subject matter and it appears I’m stuck with win7 if I want to keep using xbox360 extender. If that’s the case, I might as well just use win8 key to upgrade to windows 10. Feels like another page is ripped from WMC chapter but last 8 years of win7 WMC usage...

I upgraded to win8.1 pro with MC just now and it seemed to go fine. However, now all the channels seem to suffer from pixelation and dropouts. This is odd, since no hardware has changed since win7 was running without any problems of this sort. The tuner is the HDHomerun Quattro and it still works...

Pickuped the latest W8.1 Jan 2020 update and now my CNN channel goes to display error . In the past I stopped windows media client receiver services and did a re-do on the TV Signal-> Update PlayReady. Everything worked and I could play CNN Live TV.

Any suggestions?

Hello all,

I have been having a playback problem for a while with WMC. But I figured I could live with it because my HDHomeRun app would run TV just fine. But with all the changes at the first of the year with Windows no longer having free program guides I figured I should try to resolve it.

I...

I’m on windows 7 and everything works fine, but with the ending support of windows 7 and since I do use my HTCP as also a normal PC,

Should I update to windows 8.1? I have both a license for windows 8.1 and the media center.

Thanks.

Low and behold I found two different paid for keys that windows 8.1 pro likes. The wizard say we are on the way to upgrade WMC 8.1 Pro and then it goes oops something went wrong. I may have to call Microsoft. Replacing W8.1 pro action pack activated key. When I just try changing my key it says cant...

I'm confused and lost. I got EPG123 to work with my 8.1 pro media center, but I cannot for the life of me get the epg to update. I have the DVR service on my Win10 machines but DVR is not available on my 8.1 machine. I'm using the 3 tuner HD Homerun Prime with a cablecard. Whats the path to the...

The Hardware is 2 Hauppauge HVR-1600 cards and one HVR-1800 in a PC running Windows 8.1.

Due to an FCC mandated Repack on one of my local stations I had to re-scan my tuners. The result was a signal strength of 1 out of 6 bars in the WMC UI for every tuner but was still able to view live TV, every...

I am a new user, just installed latest version 12/31/2019 on existing Win8 64bit.
Ceton 6 tuner CableCard
Successfully created ScheduleDirect account with 1 yr sub.

When running WMC Live TV setup, after selecting NO to the Microsoft Guide agreement, WMC hangs in the download configuration/data...

I am running WMC on 2 computers- one with Windows 7 and one with Windows 8.1. With the expiration of Windows 7 approaching in January, I recently successfully upgraded my Windows 7 machine to Windows 8.1. Fortunately, I had my Windows Media Center Pack upgrade key, so I was almost successful in...

I have Windows Media Center (WMC) working normally in Windows 8.1 complete with the Microsoft IR remote model 1040 able to tune a set top cable box via IR emitters.

My brother asked to borrow the remote setup and I said OK. I said I would get another.
I subsequently bought a new replacement model...

Does anyone have, or know where I can get the DTB Addin for Windows 8.1? I have DVRMS Toolbox and ShowAnalyzer installed but I need DTB Addin to read the XML files to actually do the commercial skipping. I have searched the web and came up short. I tried the version I had for Windows 7 but that did...

So I decided to shift over to Plex from WMC for my remote viewing.. even though the extenders work today who knows what will break in the future, and the recording engine in WMC is still VASTLY superior to Plex (no actual event logs? come on.). Here's the plan for my workflow...

-Stuff is recorded...

I have two Intel NUC Kit NUC6i5SYH. 8GB RAM I5 and ssd.
Identical units

Two HDhomerun prime Motorola cablecards Mediacom cable provider. Firmware up to date.

Unit 1 been running win 7 ultimate for 2 ½ years WMC can watch all copy protected channels I subscribe to.
Unit 2 has been freshly...

Does anyone have a valid windows 8.1 Pro with Media Center license that will unlock and add windows media center to windows 8.1 pro? I want to upgrade my windows 7 pro to windows 8 pro to get a few more years of support for windows. Thanks

Lately, a lot of my DVR recordings are ending with No TV Signal .
Recording is crystal clear up until then. And live TV looks great as well.
Was working great for years, problem seems to have started a few weeks ago.

Today I power cycled all my components (Tuning Adapter, HD HomeRun, Cable Modem,...

Hi All--

I figured I'd make this a dedicated post. Quick history, I've had W7 WMC machine working for a number years and I've moved to consolidating everything on to an ESXi host. I may make a dedicated post on my trials/tribulations on that, but I was able to get my InfiniTV6 PCIe succcessfully...

We're seeing EPG123 download data, and we can find the .xmltv file and look through it, and it looks good to us--like a dump of a relational database.

But we're not sure how the data is supposed to move from the .xmltv file to the WMC Guide. That's the part that's not happening. We see data for...

Greetings everyone
Does anyone have a list of services that can be disabled on a dedicated 8.1 WMC machine?
The machine is an old dual core with 4 g of ram but the CPU clocks over 30% doing nothing. I'd like to disable all things not needed.

Thanks
Jan

A couple months ago something happened to our closed captions the right hand side of them are being clipped off. Its a few characters at most but it is annoying. Has anyone else seen this? Does anyone know if there is a setting hidden somewhere, or in the registry where I can adjust this?

TIA

John

Greetings everyone, newbie here.

I'd like to install Remote Potato on my WMC machine but cannot find a valid download link. I can find in in Soft Pedia but frankly I'm scared to use that source. All other download links show the 404 msg.

Anyone have a valid link they can share?

Thanks
Jan

I'm running 8.1 with WMC Installed from scratch, and I'm getting a thin white noise bar on the far right side of the screen on certain channels, I'm used to it now but I never had this with 7.

Also, I'm getting a screen flash to black from the recorded tv menu to watching the program, when it's...

I've been reading through the forum trying to find out the exact SKU/model of Windows 8 to buy that includes Media Center. I did find this:

Windows 8.1 Pro Pack Upgrade - Windows
Model: 5VR-00139
SKU: 2240003

...but the only options I can find on ebay are Microsoft Windows 8 Pro Pack MPN:...

I have a bunch of .tmp.sbf files in the \Recorded TV\TempRec\TempSBE folder. A typical filename would be {40820163-BD37-498A-B496-DB163096497C}.tmp.sbf. Each one is about 498 Mb.

They don't show up in File Explorer, even with view hidden files enabled. They are revealed only by searching for *.*...

Hello all,

I am struggling to reset my Media Center to first run configuration. Both executing 'mcupdate.exe -mediacenterrecovery' and running the equivalent task within the Task Scheduler do nothing. I have previously used this command under windows 7 and it would generally kick off a lot of...

Hey gang-- need some help if any of you remember this one...

Approximately every 24 hours, something appears to happen to RDP and my extenders no-longer connect; nor can I RDP manually to my mediacenter PC (it's headless with 4 extenders). When I go to the PC/console I can login and everything...

Every week at the exact time I get the following message:

Recording of SEAL Team:episode title began as scheduled on mm/dd/yyyy hh:mm:ss and stopped early due to a schedule change. This message is then followed up with another message 5 minutes later that says Recording of SEAL Team:episode title...

Hello! Finally getting around to setting up my network and attempting to reconfigure my VM of 8.1 w/ media center
It had my previous zipcode which determines the guide so I wanted to know how can I (safely) wipe my settings and do the intro-wizard ::fingerscrossed::

I modified the...

I have two WMC's set up and theey're several years old.

On both units channel 24.1 suddenly went black last week. When I switch to that channel the program name comes up, the HD icon, and the Dolby icon comes up but the screen is black and STAYS black. (I'm familiar with what happens when I get a...

What are the SKU's I should be Googling to get a legal instance of Media Center running in 8.1?
I have both 8.0 and 8.1 keys for the OS itself. But nothing for Media Center.

Yes, I know it's no longer available from MS.
But it should still be available from 3rd party software vendors?

Maybe not...

Anyway know what this image on my home screen means and where did it come from?

Hi all, looking for some guidance if possible.

Recently found out that while VLC will play my recorded WTV files, it can't display the subtitles.

Anyone know of any other option on MacOS that would allow playback WITH subtitles? Or would I be best to do something like convert the files to another...

Running win 8.1 with ceton 4 infinitv card.
I get that Low TV signal message on recordings only. When i watch the program live (while recording to test) i don't get the error, when i watch the file back I do get the error.
to be clear. my SNR is about 33 with a +3.8 dvmb on avg
i have updated the...

For potential benefit to others I wanted to share a problem that I’ve been having; and also the solution I found.

Win 8.1 Media Center - Ceton InfiniTV 4 PCIe.

Problem:
For some time I’ve had what appeared to be random recording failures. Sometimes a recording would suddenly stop for no apparent...

I am having an audio dropout issue. Dropouts occur during both live TV and recorded TV. Video is not affected. I get my signal from a HD Homerun Prime(cablecard). I have played with the audio settings on Windows to no avail. If a dropout occurs, I can sometimes rewind the video and the audio is...

If this is in the wrong place, please move, and sorry!

Are there any alternatives where people can use a cable card or a cable card alternative to receive their TV or does WMC work with any other service other than cable? I am a Spectrum customer for internet and tv, but I am only remaining with...

I'm getting a display driver error message on a new Win 8.1 install with T-S's WMC v8. Changing the Window size fixes it but I would rather not have to. So far I have tried uninstalling playready, and running cleandrm but that didn't fix the problem. I might try again anyway. Is this a purely a...

I'm not sure weather to laugh at this or cry but when press up when viewing a show or recording, the lower portion of the screen flashes a blue something for a fraction of a second, then disappears instead of showing the mini guide or program info. When i press left or right everything displays...

I am running through TV setup and when I get to the point where I'm prompted to agree to the Guide TOS, and Playready I decline both. After I decline playready, WMC jumps straight to setup cancelled. Is there some way around this? Can I add the tuners manually in the registry?

I'm on aboddi's version of WMC (The one that installs via DISM, or v12 I think), NOT TS's. I have had to remove WMC from the add or remove features from windows menu once to get this to work so my current install is ripped from that DISM package via WIndows itself (I Guess). I cannot get the ehrec,...

Is there a way to reset the TV signal in Media Center (Win 8.1) without having to go through EPG123 process of getting the guide data back?

I have two HTPCs (both Win 8.1 Pro) - one has internal InfiniTV 4 PCIe card and other uses InfiniTV 6 ETH network device. One with internal PCIe card is rock...

...or even 10?

Sorry as I imagine this is an oft asked question, but I looked through recent topics and didn't see a match.

I am on Win 7 and having enough problems that it is time to reimage my machine and start over. And need to determine if it is best to go with 7 again, or start with 8 or...

I have an 10 year old HTPC CoreDuo Dual Core 3GHz CPU with a HD7770 graphics card, running Windows 8 with Media Centre addin

This runs great @ 1080p running MadVR & LAV (Shark 007) codecs, but I now want to play 4K H265 files, these just stutter badly at present.

I have bought a 1050GT garphics...

Hi

My current set-up is Windows 8.1 with Media Center, paid up to use Schedules Direct using EPG123 (version 1.1.19). I live in North East, so switched from using Pontop Pike transmitter to DBT Freeview when using schedules Direct to get up to date scheduling date

Up until recently everything was...

Hi all

I've had a good run so far with my 8.1wmc machine, but I've recently developed a problem. When waking from sleep or from a reboot, whatever action I request from WMC whether it be show the guide or Live TV, or enter the recorded tv section the picture hangs for about 2 or 3 minutes before...

Sometimes the key just stops working and it isn't even the remote. It does not work if I use the mouse either. It happens randomly. Has anyone experienced this or know of a solution?

Good afternoon all,

Since I'm upgrading my HTPC from Windows Vista to Windows 8.1, have I discovered some problem with upgrading the setup. :(

I have already bought Windows 8.1 pro with the Media center pack so I have WMC.

I've fixed netflix via these forums for WMC, is there only a way how i...

An error was encounter while configuring your computer for use with this extender(xbox 360).

I know this has been asked before, but I'm now dealing with this error and all the solutions I've found either don't work or the links no longer work. Windows Media Center blocked is the error message...

Hello-

I'm sorry to bother, and believe me I've read the entire web, it seems. Kinda confused.

Was under the impression that Win8.1 would still allow me to record DRM shows from my HDHomerun Prime and show them through an XBox 360 extension.

Got WMC up & running, PlayReady is running, and I can...

The one feature Windows eight has that seven does not that I might find useful is Miracast support. Does anyone have any success stories, or useful examples of using Miracast on Win 8? I'm thinking of using it along side emby so that the OS itself has casting support but I'm not sure how well it...

Who wants to help troubleshoot?

Well I'm stuck. I consider myself semi-PC literate. I'm no IT tech, but I have built my own PC's for some time.

Recently my HTPC decided it likes to randomly black screen then reboot.
Event Viewer reports Kernel Power error.
I initially assumed it was PSU related...

My computer window 8 did crash and we had to reinstall all the software from scratch, that included the windows media center, so I got everything working but I cannot play my previously recorded videos, is giving me and error saying that Media center cannot play prerecorded videos from another PC....

Is there a decent Android app that lets you control WMC recordings? I don't need to WATCH things on my phone, I just want to be able to setup a new recording, see what's scheduled, etc. Anything like that one could recommend? Thanks!

(I had the Ceton My Media Center a few years ago but it stopped...

Been dealing with this for a while. I am using a HDHR Prime with WMC on Windows 8.1 extending to a few 360's, and have an issue where JUST ESPN and ESPN2 do not appear when viewed through WMC. It shows the channel details but the Dolby icon kind of flickers and neither audio or video show up. If I...

I'm using an hd homerun prime with media center in Windows 8.1

Very often if I come back to my tv and turn it on I'll see that the tv feed is frozen. I have to hit stop on the remote and re select the channel from the guide to get it playing again. The PC is always on, no sleep or hibernate

I've...

:?:

Can Windows Media Center be configured to display (& play) MP4 files in the Recorded TV section/panel?

My recordings used to occur without fail, then something changed. I have had this issue for years and cant resolve it, so I'd thought I'd ask here. I have 2 Win 8.1 systems, both exhibit the same problem which manifests itself as tuners not found when a recording is scheduled or when using Guide. I...

If you are like me and running WMC on a newer CPU

Intel seventh (7th)-generation processors (Kaby Lake) or later
AMD Bristol Ridge (Seventh generation) or newer
Qualcomm 8996

Microsoft was released few updates with (Ry)Zen and Kaby Lake CPUs detection with new annoying ballot screen, see...

if the netflix app can be accessed from within WMC (win 8.1), why can i not access slingtv? these are my tv sources (OTA with hauppauge DVR, and slingtv) and it would be awesome to have it within WMC!
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Today, I found all my non-locals are non-tunable, generating the No TV Signal error. I verified they actually ARE tunable from my HD HomeRun Prime via DLNA, so it's WMC that's at fault. Looking at the channel sources, I find four, the correct channel and three bogus ones. Multiply by three because...

Win 8.1 build with a Ceton InfinityTV PCIe 6, Videocard Geforce 970 GTX
I was running for about a week without any issuses just bypassing the Digital Cable Advisor...
Only problem is the TV Guide won't correctly download now... only partial listings...

Any suggestions?

Recently I switched from using my Ceton ETH6 to a HD Homerun Prime using my existing cable card. My HBO is no longer working and give a subscription not active message. I am not sure of the correct search terms for what I need to do. Do I need to reset DRM? I have re-run the cable adviser in WMC....

I've read where YAMMM is supposed to handle metadata but parental rating doesn't seem to work for me. YAMMM correctly renames my movies, creates a folder icon, and creates a dvdid xml file.

Year and Genre work but if I select to sort by Parental Rating, I get one R movie, one NR Movie, and 200...

When I click my taskbar WMC button it highlights as if it is running but only for 2-3 seconds. I did this with task manager open and it shows the WMC process only during this time. There are no errors and media extenders can not connect to the PC. System restore did not fix the issue.

Hey all.

WMC on Win 8.1. Previously working fine, then my hardware died. I moved the HD to another machine. It was initially working fine for a few hours, now I get the Display Driver Error when opening WMC.

Some things to note:
1) I don't get the few seconds of content before the error comes up...

So I've been a longtime stalker of the boards, but just officially jumped into the community - of course, due to having an issue.

For 4+ years now, I've been using WMC as the backbone of whole-home DVR and live viewing. Everything I currently record/stream is done on a server-style PC on Win 8.1,...

I've been using Windows Media Center in Windows 8 since Windows 8 first launched. Just recently, I've noticed that when I use my wireless keyboard with touchpad, the mouse cursor is no longer visible in WMC. The cursor appears normally on the Windows desktop or when running any other program. I'm...

Building out a new low power (low heat!) HTPC to replace my 2010 era i3 turd. I read Win 7 MC will go end of life around 2020, and Win 8 will follow in 2023. If I purchase a Win 8.1 Pro disk on eBay, can I use the Media Pack key for Win 8 that I got from MS a couple of years ago? I am not sure if I...

Can I still add media center to windows 8.1 pro? I need to perform a clean install but want to be sure I can use media center

So in the last week or so I've started having a weird problem with my downstairs Xbox 360 as an extender. After about 15 minutes of use the extender will suddenly lose the connection, go to the reconnect screen, and then after about five minutes reconnect to the WMC PC all by itself. This will...

I was very late to the WMC party. I've been running it for about 2 years and have a large amount of movies mixed in with the TV shows.

Following other forum suggestions I moved all the movies into a separate Movie library and put each .wmv file into its own subdir. But of course now the Movie menu...

I just had to reinstall Windows 8.1 last night because of a hard drive issue. After my TV setup was completed, I noticed an issue with the Music Choice channels that each play a specific genre.

In my channel lineup, channels 901 through 1000 are all labeled Music Choice genre . I noticed that...

Can someone please advise what ports need to be opened and how to set a firewall please in WMC? I had to replace a router and I keep getting getting no tuner available message. I have a working HD prime that I can use with Kodi. Thank you.

Today i received my new AMD RX 460 card but when i try to watch 4k Live tv such as UHD1 on Sat 19.2. I only get message Digital Radio Station on blue background but audio signal works.
Shark codecs with lav filter don't help. Is there a solution?
Without 4k live tv support WMC will come to an end...

I had my media center movie folder of ripped DVDs on a storage spaces drive which was a combination of two drives and that seemed to cause a playback problem so I got those drives back as two separate drives and then copied the DVD files folder from my backup drive which was made via the Windows...

When setting up WMC 8.1 I go thru the Set Up TV Signal option...
This takes me to Region: (shows United States)
- I then click the radio button for Yes, use this region to configure TV services
Then click Next
This takes me to where you enter your zip code..
- I keyed in 44001 for my location...

Hello. I have been using WMC since 2009 and I have run into a problem. I have not had this problem before and can not resolve. I have five channels that give me the error Service
is unavailable There is currently no tv signal detected for this channel. The channel may be temp off the air. Try...

With many positive experiences posted for running a modified WMC under Win10, I finally upgraded from 8.1 to 10.

Eventually, I gave up trying to get Win 10 to recognize my Ceton InfiniTV4 drivers (which tested just fine with Ceton diagnostics). Just now I've backed out to 8.1... however, WMC is no...

My TV and receiver are too old and i am too cheap to replace either right now. With that said, i want a chromecast but dont have an HDMI port open on my TV (PS and WMC) and my receiver doesn't support HDMI.

Any way to turn your computer into a chromecast in any way? I want to use my phone to...

As of 6/16/16 the TV signal setup selection for providers has changed for Time Warner Cable customers to Charter Communications which has multiple listings as did the old time warner selections . With these new selections they have no designation of HD or SD as did the old Time Warner selections....

Any idea what might cause the last step Connecting to extender to crash the OS to a blue screen? After this happens I can't do anything with adding extenders.

Sent from my VS986 using Tapatalk

Windows 8.1. Having a wake event that seems triggered by an automated update attributed to WMC. How can I disable that?

BTW this machine NEVER is or NEVER will be connected to the internet.

Any help with this one last remaining unwanted wake event greatly appreciate!

TIA

Got a new Computer and upgraded to 8.1 Pro with MC, from 8.1; with Microsoft help. Media Center works fine for watching and recording TV, cable card, etc. I have an Xbox 360 that worked fine with my old computer, also 8.1 Pro w/MC but I get configuration error each time with the new system. The...

Hi Folks
I've been using this WMC for years and had always thought I had a feature that I actually now think is an issue.
When I playback at x 1.4 fast forward, it works fine but jolts forward a frame every 2 or so seconds, I can live with it, but it is not ideal. I thought this was a feature until...

I have a official WMC running on Windows 8.1 pro. I've been searching the web and this site, but I cannot find a definite answer. I apologize if I missed the posts.

I want to know if upgrading to Windows 10, then activating it to lock in the upgrade then doing a rollback also restores the Windows...

Hello.
Im new to the forums.
Hopefully someone can help me with my issue.
Im running a GA-h81m-h, 4gb ram, G3258, Nvidia GT 710, HDhomerun Prime with cisco tuning adapter. its hooked up to Yamaha AV receiver.
Fresh Install Windows 8.1 with WMC No updates have been performed.
My issue is, When...

Because of my Ceton tuners disappearing one ever two weeks or so I got my media center to see my HDHomerun prime.
It can record on them just fine.
However about once a day all tuners say they can't record because the receiver service terminated unexpectedly O r sometimes it says tuner not installed...

This is what I see on the TV connected to the Ceton Echo extender. When I pick up the phone and go to the Ceton MMC app everything looks normal I can see my movies I can see recorded TV I can see the guide I can see all my channels, everything looks normal. As a matter of fact I can play all those...

I am thinking about a miniDSP NanoAVR HD but it must use Linear PCM via HDMI. This WMC computer uses Intel HD Graphics 530 i7-6700/Z170 chipset, Intel HDMI Display Audio with Denon AVR X4100W receiver.

In the Win8 Sound I uncheck Exclusive Mode and run Configure > Test and I get 7 channel LPCM...

I just installed and setup WMC on my Surface Pro Windows 8.1 Pro. It's using HDHomerun Prime (cablecard) and Extend (antenna). Using HDHomeun apps or VLC, channels can be viewed on the display but WMC can't show any channel. It responded Service is unavailable or No TV Signal . When I turned...

I tried Win10 but couldn't get WMC to recognize my Ceton In4 devices, so I rolled back to 8.1. WMC was damaged in that sequence and I received the needed advice on re-installing WMC here. All my series-recording requests were lost, however, which produced my next problem.

The Search function under...

So I'm not sure where this post particularly belongs, but here's my predicament. I'm a bitter clinger using 8.1 WMC and have about 2.5 TB worth of shows recorded with WMC that I want to back up. I already have the solution in mind, which is my Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials box that I have this...

I haven't been able to get my PC to sleep and resume to record since moving from Windows 7 when the first win8 betas came out.
I finally fixed it using the details in the post below:

Short version - use task scheduler to modify the hidden wake task to set Windows 8.1 compatibility not Windows 7....

I have a quad DVB-T2 tuner (single card). Recently I have started to see conflict warnings appearing in Scheduled Recordings for previously scheduled recordings. These appear when there is more than one recording scheduled for the same time. However these are spurious as there are enough tuners to...

I have an HDHomeRun Prime with CableCard as well as dual ClearQAM tuners in my HTPC. I think that some of the QAM channel assignments were changed by my cable provider recently, so I went through the TV set up again to do a clean scan and match the QAM channels with the CableCard channels.

I went...

I've started ripping my DVDs to M4V. I used MetaX to add artwork and metadata, and I put a them in a Movie library. They show up in WMC and play ok. However, some show artwork and some do not.

I discovered that the artwork that does show is not the embedded art from the file. Since it takes a few...

Win 8.1
I've been searching but can't find anything clear (to me at least) on how to clear the recordings database and then let WMC rebuild it.
The reason I need to do it is that i am having problems with recordedtvHd listings matching the recordings under 'recorded tv' in WMC.
It is the recordedtv...

Hiall.

I started this over at silicon dusts city's because I thought this was related to the prime I use, but now I'm leaning more towards WMC as the culprit.

Basically I started getting really bad audio and visual quality drops on all channels, all times of day, starting about a week ago.

I've...

I have set Start when possible: 5 and Stop when possible: 30 because overruns are common in Australia and there is occasionally an early start. I record several series. If two programs are broadcast consecutively on a channel, WMC records both from the same tuner and makes some sort of arbitrary...

Hello,
I've been around these forums a lot, but (sadly) I had to make my first post because of an issue my friend and I are both experiencing.

Yesterday (March 13th,) WMC just completely stopped recognizing any tuners. I have an HDHR Prime, and I ran the config, and it shows three tuners every...

A few years ago, I ripped my DVD collection using DVD Shrink. I left them all uncompressed, in the VOB format.
This was the only way I could find in order to keep the subtitles and proper FF/Rewind functionality. (on MP4/MKV/etc, FF-ing only moves slowly, and pressing more that once does nothing)....

Hi all,

Just wondering if anyone else has this issue. Trying to figure out if it's my PC/display card or receiver or ?

While watching any content on WMC, I hit mute. When I un-mute, the volume is way lower. If I wait a while (maybe 10-20 seconds), it will eventually creep back up to normal (but...

This is no big deal, but just wondering if it happens to anyone else...

Sometimes, when I scroll to and select Guide , it'll bring me to Recorded TV instead. But if I click the Guide button on the remote control, it will bring me to the Guide, and then the problem disappears (until the next...

So, I do the whole setup. Choose 1080p. WMC looks like it's running in HD but when I go to any of the live TV channels even though they are marked HD, I only see SD in the middle of the screen. Not sure if it's a problem with my HDHomerun prime setup or WMC.

I already have a windows 7 version of...

So if I add media folders (movies, music, etc) from network drives on the HTPC, why do they not show up through the 360 extenders?

I would like to launch ehshell.exe and have it either play all of the slide shows under the Picture Library in Pictures + Video or Play Favorites.

Is the a command line option to do this? poking around on the web I found posts of how to start WMC in live TV mode or how to bring up the guide, or to...

Ok... So I'm finally converting all my DVD and BluRay movies to mp4. I have a couple of questions regarding adding/playing these files in WMC.

The first is how do I get WMC to play the 5.1 audio instead of the 2 channel?

The second is does WMC have the ability to read the Metadata embedded in the...

I am having an issue where my media center keeps recording some weird recordings (all on the same channel) and i will go in a cancel them and then they will come back.

Is there anywhere to tell where recordings are coming from, i have mediabrowser with serverwmc installed as well.

Hi,

I've been settling for a lower than acceptable video quality for awhile but can't stand anymore. For some reason, WMC has lower quality than HDHomerun View for the same channels. Colors, Brightness, etc. is better on View than WMC. I've tried all WMC settings but still get the same quality. Am...

This is my first Windows 8 build for Media Center. I can't figure this one out.

I'm using four Primes with Tuner Salad. I go through setup just fine. Schedule all my recordings and at random, it will dump all tuners in use and display the error. Sometimes it will recover what I'm watching live but...

Need a copy of ehshell.dll version 6.1.7601.19061 for a little project I am working on.

Its in your Win8 EHOME folder.

Like others, I have noticed an increased requests to purchase W8/8.1 WMC keys since MS no longer is selling them. While I understand the request, what I'm curious about is if the people who want to purchase fall under the one or more of the following scenarios:

1) I've been using WMC for XP,...

Is there anyway to add larger quantities to this setting through a hack?

Some shows I would like to keep, let's say, 25?

I'm using Windows 8.1 with WMC, saving files over 1gb Ethernet to an iSCSI drive on a NAS. Has worked fine for 2+ years, but now I'm getting errors related to running out of disk space (wants to delete shows, won't record some new ones). I have more than 1.3TB free of 2TB allocated.

I see that for...

I have a product key I got from a kind member in the forum.. but for some reason my copy of windows 8.1 Pro doesn't have WMC installed?

Where can I find this download? Any ideas? Anyone have an install file backed up they can dropbox me?

Any help is appreciated!

Windows 8.1 Geforce 10 Vid card, 8 Gig memory, Pentium I3 ASUS H81m-c, Tuner is TBS PCI-e DVBT2 6281

My Media centre TV works well but on return from sleep the TV no longer works with the message no Tuner available.

When I look in device manager the tuner card has vanished from Sound Video Game...