I just replaced a dying WD HDD with a new WD HDD. After system restore, everything works as expected. I have toyed with the idea of replacing the HDD with a SSDD of identical capacity just to eliminate the noise from the HDD. My HDD is a 5400 RPM unit so it isn't that loud but every little bit of...

My current hard disk is about 7 years old. I was watching a movie last night and about halfway through the movie, the playback froze with the disk activity LED glowing solid. I had to do a hard reset to get the PC going again. I then ran a chkdsk and it reported 342 bad sectors and mapped them out....

There's no mention of Windows Media Center in the above article (or in any other reporting on this that I've seen), but the natural question is whether this change will also affect WMC. Could it mean that at some point we won't be able to watch copy-protected recordings on our 7MC systems... or not...

I'm missing a channel when I go to Settings->TV->Guide->Edit Channels. Channel 88 is missing from the list. It's also missing from the left-side list in the EPG123 Client. Using the EPG123 Client, I checked to make sure that there no deleted scanned channels . Using the HDHomerunView app, I was...

The local MeTV and Antenna TV channels show old sitcoms stretched to fit a modern wide screen and they look TERRIBLE. There's stuff I'd watch otherwise. Is there a WMC setting I'm missing that'll squish these back down to the original aspect ratio? None of the zoom options I'm seeing are right....

Microsoft is making it harder to install Playready for WMC TV setup. Posting for anyone else that goes through this.

Decided it is time to reformat my HTPC C: drive and have a clean WMC install. I completed Windows 7 install and installed all drivers without issue. I tried Windows update to get to...

I'm using 64-bit Windows 7 Media Center and have noticed the 'Green Button' no longer launches Media Center.
Although 'Live TV' on the remote still launches Media Center from the desktop and goes direct to live TV.

I'm sure I've read about this problem before but have had a search and couldn't...

Can someone here confirm that DVB-T will work in pakistan, i am thinking of buying one.

I'm still running Win7 Pro on my main Video Box.
I'm completely Cord-Free, a Broad-ONLY user.
That is BroadCAST & BroadBAND as my only sources for content.

I finally need to build a new box b/c this one is ready to retire & I'd like to do it on my sched, not wait for the inevitable.
I would like...

My Spectrum tuning resolver started flashing a yellow light this afternoon.

When I checked the HDHR Prime status web page it showed the resolver having both upstream
and downstream signal lock, but the resolver status says disabled .

I've never seen that before.
I'm guessing it's not coincidence...

I want to change the menu sounds in Windows Media Center, but how do I do that?

Hi folks,

Spectrum tweaked my CableCard setup (Tuner Adapter config. went AWOL and they cannot get it working (even with a new TA)) a few weeks back, long story short my WMC setup on my Win7 PC got blowed up or corrupted or something.

Have been trying to do the TV Setup on WMC but every time I...

Running a Ceton 6 Pcie on Win7 HTPC. All of a sudden no CNN signal on Comcast cable. Anyone else seeing this kind of thing? Is there a signal restart feature I can try?

I have my PC hooked up with an hdmi cable to my stereo. I can use my windows remote to control the audio for music just fine but when I watch tv or a dvd the windows volume has no effect. Is there a way to fix this?

Hi, folks,

This morning, I found that none of my local (Charlotte, NC) HD channels play. Local SD channels do play. Media Center says No TV Signal There is currently no TV signal detected for this channel. . Spectrum cable TV. HDHomeRun tuners. HDHomeRun app plays them fine. Using EGP123. Anyone...

Greetings everyone, I'm in RI at 02896. Recently channel 27 out of Marlboro MA started broadcasting ATSC3 channels:
102.1, 104.1, 105.1, 115.1, 125.1, 150.1, and 166.1
I'm using a recent HDHomeRun Flex 4k tuner which is capable of tuning ATSC3 channels. In the HDHomeRun Config GUI app, I do...

Reinstalled win7. Tried to connect an Xbox 360 extender. Neither windows update nor legacy update offered a driver. How can I get it?

I have been using Windows 7 WMC for years. I currently have a PC directly attached to each of my 4 TVs. Three of the machines are only EPG123 clients. I have stuck with Windows 7, since I have not been able to get Windows 10 machines to reliably see each other on the network. I know it is just a...

I have a Windows 7 WMC, Dell Optiplex 740, with a Zotac nVidia GT 1030 GPU. Tuner is HDHomerun Prime w/Xfinity CableCard. Unit is set at power on to start and directly auto start WMC live video.

Although I generally update drivers on a regular basis, I hadn't done the GT 1030 driver in quite...

Went thru normal settings to ADD a DTV channel and Media Center won't allow 2.10 on RF-2 to be added. :cry:
Any one have a work around for this ??

I want to know, if WMC and EPG123 will still be able to work when ATSC 1.0 shuts down in 2027 in place with the controversial ATSC 3.0. Want to know in the future.

Having difficulty w/ win7MC after removing an cloning OS drive
What I did was remove the HTPCs SSD which had the OS of win7 an clone it to use in another machine.
When I replaced same SSD W7MC wouldn’t play, all I get to watch is video error message this files needed to display video are not...

I know we were told Windows 7 no longer updates and so i turned them off in my HTPC, but recently I guess I changed something and now I am seeing update announcements almost every couple of weeks. Anyone know what these are and should I allow them automatically or stop them altogether again? I...

I’ll start off with the tl;dr. I have an issue with some stations recording a black screen with audio, but when not recording, I can watch them live just fine.

Details:
To start off, I am using a large antenna for over the air TV, and getting full strength signals on all the channels I am trying...

This post is very suspicious as it is almost identical to this post
minus the external link,

I have had this computer and been using it for Media Center with the Cetron infinitv 4 and Comcast(Xfiniti) since 2010. Now some of the programs do not record or stop in the middle of the recording. On the recording it says Partial Recording and says it was manually stopped at 5:35:56 PM for use by...

My win7 WMC PC has corrupt files that “sfc/scannow” can’t fix, which are preventing WMC from working. I’m now thinking that I need to reinstall win7, but I’m wondering if windows update will still get all of the many updates, such as, sp1 and edge. Does anyone know?

I have been struggling for years to keep my glitchy Windows 7 computer alive to keep using the Windows Media Center and last week the computer completely died as far as my skills could handle. I took it to a shop and they ordered a twin unit off of ebay and moved my stuff over and I thought I would...

I just uninstalled WMC and re-installed to correct some things. Prior to that I could be on the desktop and press the WMC button, live tv or recorded tv it would start WMC. Now that will not work. All other functions seem fine.
Any ideas?

Hello friends of Windows Media Center.
After 6 years without WMC, I decided to return.
I sold my beloved Asus EeeTop ET 602 music PC 6 years ago and have been trying ever since
to get along with Alexa and music via Bluetooth.
But I was always missing something. It was never really great. I missed...

Hey, does anyone know how to stop all WMC pop-up messages?

I run two instances of 7MC and EPG123. Whenever one locks up and crashes it seems that mcupdate is involved. From what I've read it does garbage collection and also use to download guide data. I understand 7MC is dead code and I'm grateful that Gary keeps it alive. So tell me, is there a useful way...

After uninstalling and reinstalling Windows Media Center (see ), several controls on the WMC GUI were lost, among them the Skip Forward and Skip Backward buttons.

The skip functions do work when controlling WMC via a remote, but they don't show up on the WMC screen and so I can't use the mouse to...

Turned on the XBox 360 today only to find a long lag spinner on the screen and then oddly says I'm logged into XBox Live but says when it gets to the main screen I'm not logged in. Confused? I think go into MCE and it's giving the usual need to download the codec or whatever to watch anything. Is...

Has anyone got this working. Of course spectrum forced us to change out our box. It has been working fine. I thought I heard that it should just work. No such luck

Can windows7 media center recorded programs be viewed on a smart TV

I’d like to record TV programs (either free OTA or basic cable) then watch w/ a smartTV
Which is none WMC.

I’ve recorded WMC programs OTA placed on a flash drive plugged it into the smart TV.

Smart TV recognized the corsair...

There is a way to make Youtube Macrotube work in 2024 :?:

The Moneual Moncaso 320 remote control for my media computer has stopped working, and no amount of fiddling or cleaning the contacts seems to have resurrected it. Replacements do not seem to be available anywhere, and when you have a failed remote you cannot ‘teach’ a new universal remote in its...

Please note, this is a followup to the post added on Sat Mar 2 by td4west2, who is also me. Over the weekend all login attempts to this, my existing account ld4west, failed and an email to admin@thegreenbutton,tv came back with email address not found so I created the td4west2 account to get the...

Rebuilding a WMC7 PC after a power outage.
The last clean install on the machine was in late 2019 so Win7 and PlayReady installed without any major issues.
Using the 'Guide_WMC7_on_ESXi_VM.pdf' document as a basis for this rebuild so have all the garyan/DRM 32 bit software downloaded (thanks...

Running WMC 7 at 4k 60Hz on my display and I'm seeing a thin strip of flickering black/white pixels on the right edge of the screen, only when using WMC. It's not a TV or HDMI cable issue as I've tried switching the cable and I have found a few other people online that are having the same issue...

windows media center services have stopped working I cannot run setup because of that error. I can't find any service that can be started to fix this. I have already tried the turn off,turn on procedure and it did not help. Also WMC has an error and it has to close when I open it. I have to open it...

Is there a way in WMC to know if a recording is a duplicate of something that already exists on the HDD? The wife keeps recording movies that she would like to see (or my daughter would enjoy), and now I have several copies of the same program. I am getting tired of having to go in and delete...

The old MB and CPU were AMD also. How can I get it to play previous recordings and live TV? Do I have to do the DRMReset thing? I understand this will probably fix live TV but what about the 2 TB of recordings I have?
Thanx

We have a 9 yo HP PC that is being used as a WMC home theater, running 24/7. Over the years, we've solved most of the problems with WMC, including subscribing to EPG123 for guide listings. HDD storage has also been added - we're up to over 10 TB total now. However, rather unwisely, the original 1...

I just uninstalled WMC and re-installed to correct some things. Prior to that I could be on the desktop and press the WMC button, live tv or recorded tv it would start WMC. Now that will not work. All other functions seem fine.
Any ideas?

Chicagoland did an OTA channel repack last night. I went to do a rescan, but before I did everything already appeared to be OK, except ABC7. IOW all the major channels were already accessible using the EPG, except ABC7. So I did a rescan and ABC7 still doesn't work. The EPG lists the proper...

Channel 2.1 (CBS) in Chicago was on RF12. Last week they transitioned to ATSC 3.0.
The old ATSC 1.0 went to RF19, and the virtual 2.1 was mapped to RF 19.

Now my HTPC with AverMedia OTA tuners is not able to receive 2.1. Doing a Signal Strength check in WMC indicates no signal on 2.x. FWIW it...

So, my foray into trying to work around the 29/59 issue has been interesting. I've discovered a bug in the Nvidia drivers that is crashing Media Center due to unchecked growth in the 'handles' for the ehshell.exe process when viewing 29/59 content, found that while the new Radeon cards don't cause...

The old MB and CPU were AMD also. How can I get it to play previous recordings and live TV? Do I have to do the DRMReset thing? I understand this will probably fix live TV but what about the 2 TB of recordings I have?
Thanx

Last week, BBC stopped broadcasting SD channels on Freesat, and the notion is, that one should move to equipment capable of running HD . Meh , I thought, not a big deal as I have a trusty Hauppauge Nova DVB-S/S2 PCI card, and that will be just fine. Well, alas not. Not matter whether I try to...

I just got a windows 7 update. Thought there were no more! I had (fully) shut down the HTPC for 10 minutes or so and when I started it again I see this update pushing through. It is now showing configuring update 100% with spinning wheel for 15 minutes, but the message warns not not to shut down...

Hi,
Bringing this back up to a new thread as I tried putting this in another old thread but i don't think it is monitored much anymore. So I have searche the form first and tried all the suggestionst below. I am using an HDHOMErun prime digital cable card box. I cant find any other application that...

I have several music playlists which I sometimes scroll down, intending to start playing part way through.
For playlists with less than 50 entries or so, this works fine.

But I noticed recently that large playlists (say over 100 tracks) cannot be scrolled down past around 60 or 70 before the media...

I've been running Media Center for years but it crashed a few weeks ago. I had to use a Win 7 repair disk to get it up again. That worked but the video was stuttering, very noticeable on live sports. Microsoft loaded a driver for my NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 but that has the stuttering issues. I went...

I have a channel that I broadcast cable channel 26 on, and I want to make custom guide data that’s just a 24/7 weather channel listing, is there a way to do that? Thank you!

Started failing 2023-01-05.
Anyone else?

===============================================================================
Beginning epg123 update execution. version 1.7.3.0
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*** Windows 7 Home Premium, 64-bit ***...

So I was troubleshooting this for a couple days, but whatever I do whatever configuration I have I cannot seem to get windows media center to properly connect to my Xbox 360, since media center kind of died There aren’t a lot of articles to help so I came here, I’m trying to set up 3 Xbox 360s if...

I just got a windows 7 update. Thought there were no more! I had (fully) shut down the HTPC for 10 minutes or so and when I started it again I see this update pushing through. It is now showing configuring update 100% with spinning wheel for 15 minutes, but the message warns not not to shut down...

Is it possible to change the location of the seek bar? I'm referring to the bar that pops up during playback at the bottom of the screen whenever you fast forward, rewind, pause, etc.

At it's current location, it is right over the scores of football games. So if I'm fast-forwarding through a...

I have a blank line (bar) in one listing in the guide, both in all channels and favorite listing. I can't get rid of it. There's no associated channel to edit, not in the guide or epg client. There's no blank listing anywhere that I can see.

Any help appreciated.

I haven't needed to do anything with WMC besides the usual update guide once a year. Wanted to clean up the Recorded Schedule list and when I try to open Recorded on WMC the PC freezes and needs a Hard Reboot every time. Any thoughts on how to get WMC fully functional again ?

I have three WMC PC's using HD Homerun Primes, EPG123 v1.7.1.12. I'm getting tired of manually syncing lineups, favorites, recordings among all three.

I see backing up the database includes lineup, recordings and subscriptions. What about favorite lineups?

So, what's the correct procedure to do...

Last night I recorded Game 3 of the World Series on the Fox broadcast network. I knew beforehand that I wouldn't be able to watch the game live uninterrupted, so the previous night I'd set it to record, with an extra 1-hour recording period at the end to cover the possibility of extra innings. (Got...

I have Win 7 with WMC. I'm using zap2xml with EPG Collector to get guide data. I have an ADS Instant HDTV PCI card plus a dual tuner SiliconDust HDHomeRun box on the network.

A while ago there wasn't channels 8.5, 15.11, 15.12, 15.13 but now they exist and my HDHomeRun picks them up. However, WMC...

I've been running a Windows 7 box with WMC and two Silicon Dust tuners for the last seven years. Unfortunately, the boot drive in me Win 7 box died, so I had to reinstall Win 7 on a new drive. Now when I bring up WMC and try to do a setup, it cannot find the tuners nor the connection to the...

We've had a more-or-less stable WMC7 system for over twelve years now, but in the last week or so, a somewhat annoying issue has emerged.

Some background: The PC is on 24/7, but the TV set is turned off (with the remote) when nobody is watching it. When the TV is off, we'll leave WMC open but...

I've been running windows 7 WMC for the last 13 years (2 different units latest is a 6700k) and this is a new one on me and I can't figure it out.

Tried a system restore and have had no luck, but 2 of my extenders are working fine, the other 3 I have to try (echo/x280n) Start fine, enter WMC...

This step-by-step guide with screenshots will walk you through installing WMC7 and EPG123 onto a desktop or a virtual machine.
Thanks go to all you folks on Green Button and to GaRyan2 for EPG123 and constant help around the forums.
You all helped me get a running WMC setup. I'm just paying back...

On August 10 2023 the first station integrated NEXTGENTV and it has caused some havoc with Windows Media Center on Windows 7 platform using a Quad Tuner.
This is what has happened and I don't know if its an issue SchedulesDirect can resolve or its an EPG123 issue or a combination of both.
To bring...

I’ve been running beyond TV with windows media center for years. Now it seems to have lost the video input. I can still see that it shows my Hauppauge WinTV PVR PCI II capture card and the external tuner in the audio and video sources. But no Video Input is selectable. Nothing has changed in the...

Finally got everything working great and then I killed it!

My CableCARD is suddenly displaying None for Card Validation . I called Spectrum and they re-sent the corrective and validation signals. But it didn't help.

This happened after I plugged the CableCARD into an HDHomeRun Prime that had...

If enough folks are interested, I'll write up how I got WMC7 working as a virtual machine with HDMI video & audio output for DRM protected content.
This means you're watching live TV (such as HBO, ESPN, etc) via the HDMI output, not RDP or any other remote connection (which is not possible). So...

I see people can use WMC on 11 my question is more of a Hybrid or just give it up.
I have Win7 WMC working with 2 HDhomerun primes with 3 tuners ea total of 6 of them using EPG123 recording 24/7 with MCEbuddy scanning each removing commercials and formatting them to Mp4 for less space and placing...

Hi everyone,

I'm wondering if anyone knows a location where PlayReady might store a backup file of its database for recordings. I had recorded a bunch of movies back when we had a free preview of HBO (May '22, believe it or not) and was hoping to watch them. All of them say that they are copy...

Yes, my machine is apparently still a 32 bit system. Error is Cannot Expand pf64 constant on this version of Windows . This was working a year (or so) ago. When I started back up, there was some error that I thought would be fixed with an update, but now I get this, and other errors when I try to...

In windows 7 media center, when you hover over an option, like Music, it shows a picture containing album art, for the options that have this, do they have real media, and where does it come from? Its 12:30am and i'm awake just to find this out. I'm tired.

I am considering a switch of TV providers from cable to Verizon FiOS and would like to retain the ability to play back old protected content even if I swap out these components.

Dos the hardware signature that WMC uses to authorize recording playback include any tie-in to the cable card and/or the...

Windows 7 system, rebuilt a number of times, replaced the InfiniTV 4 PCIe card several times. Recently the video with pre-recorded shows or watching live have started to see these micro pauses in the output that you can see these pauses briefly. Audio stays consistant. Watching this on another...

My C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\PlayReady\mspr.hds file has hit 2 GB and it's causing the Copy Prohibited message to pop up every few seconds while watching live TV. I'd seen some old posts on MS forums about a hotfix for this but nothing is still active
Is there any fix other than making a new...

Hello All,
Looking for help on this MC hang issue. So, I rebuilt Windows 7 OS on an existing system that is using Media Center already for years (2009). No new hardware changes expect a new SSD for the boot drive and the existing MC works still as I rebuilt this on a new SSD and change the cable to...

I was curious if there are any working add ons anymore, Such as weather or online music streaming or online video streaming that you can use on a media center extender as well

Hi everyone

Just setting up uk freesat on WMC when scanning for channels on all known transponder frequencies i only seem to get about 8 channels, yet if i manually add the channels it will find them and play the stream but the signal only has 1 bar or strength, when I'm playing the channel every...

I periodically need to move the WTV files from the assigned recording disk/folder to other disks with more space. I've added these directories into WMC. It can find the files in the new locations but then the metadata gets lost. They all show a length of 1 minute with no episode metadata like...

I installed a new Cable Card in my Ceton Tuner. I went through the card setup in WMC. It says it needs my Product Key which I put in. Then it says it can't reach the internet. I can get on the internet with the browser. So, it is a WMC problem. How do I get WMC to see the internet?

I am presently unable to use my Ceton because WMC can't see the internet connection. If I buy a Silicon Dust Cable Box will
WMC still require Activation to record off the Silicon Dust box or is the cable card activated differently?

I installed a new Cable card in the Win 7 computer that I used last year with EPg and Signals Direct. I ran the tv setup an it hung at downloading in step 2 so I read I need to turn the always on internet off. But that is nowhere to be found. So I downloaded 1.7.3.0 to run it and give the computer...

Just want to say hello and introduce myself. New user. Any help with creating a bootable usb windows 7 32bit pro sp1 for a Lenovo x130e ThinkPad with a new hard drive? Many thanks in advance.

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Hi All. I am thinking about acquiring a new PC for my WMC setup. I have messed around with Kodi, EMby and Plex but the simple TV DVR interface of WMC cannot be beat. I am currently debating whether to try and run WMC on Windows 10 (but I have about 5 extender devices which I would like to continue...

I'm able to P2V my working protected content/CableCard physical desktop into an ESXi virtual machine.
But of course, the process upsets PlayReady which now wants to do an update .
And the PlayReady servers aren't listening any longer. So, it's not possible to update PlayReady.

Does anyone know of...

Just streamed a movie with sound, and windows 7 has sound. There is no sound in windows media center. Any ideas? Please help!
Just checked a recorded show in VLC and it has sound, so problem is with output, not input. Is this a HDHomerun problem? Any help much appreciated.

Not sure where to post this, but cannot program Media Center unless I know what is available to watch.

We get the regular TV Guide but it’s limited in coverage compared to TV Weekly. However TV Weekly keeps increasing their price. I know there are online guides & you can configure & print a custom...

Having proved that my current install is broken - it will not successfully come out of sleep mode and I have tried all of the recommended recovery steps - I am planning to do a repair install. Reading few guides I have seen mention of clearing out various files including system files such as...

Anyone know of or have the working driver for this card for w7 64bit
]I installed it in my system along with my working 2205 tuner card & driver from their site but get no tv signal error
also if i disable the quad tuner in device manager my other 2205 card picks up live tv fine
i am thinking it is...

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...

I have a bunch of movies in mkv format, and I’ve added them in WMC as a video library, but almost all the thumbnails are black/blank. I have K-Lite and Icaros 2.2.x installed on both Windows 7 and Vista which I’m dual booting, and the thumbnail offset at around 20%. Is there a way to fix the blank...

My 2 TB storage drive was getting full in my Win 7 Pro WMC DVR computer, so I moved the recorded TV movie library to my 12 TB NAS and told WMC where the movies are now located. However, the movie poster art and most of the descriptions no longer show for each of the movies in my recorded movies...

Greetings everyone
I recently installed a new HDHomeRun 4K Flex - network OTA 4 channel tuner. When I detect channels on my Win7 machine all of the channels are not detected. In particular channel 12.1, thru 12.4, and 64.1 thru 64.4. These are VHF HI channels on RF channel 12 (CBS). In the HDHR...

My wife was reporting a strange smell coming from the area in the family room where the TV equipment lives (TV set, 7MC PC, external HDDs, Blu-ray player). As it had been a while since the last dusting of the PC's insides, I disconnected it, opened the case, blew out the accumulated dust, and then...

On my Win 7 media center, connected to a Denon x4200 via HDMI, with a 5.1 system, I am having a couple issues.

1. When performing the WMC audio setup, WMC is playing rear channels through the front, and barely anything through the sub. It used to work properly.

2. Some shows/commercials still...

I'm one of the 11% of computers still running Win 7 solely because, for TV programming I've refused to give up WMC and Gary's EPG123! It's reliable and awesome! There are no alternatives to that software that even comes close! Thanks Gary!! :clap:

Anyone out there have tips on how I can avoid...

Should be getting 17 days, hasn't updated for last four days
Had same trouble previously due to two instances of epg update running at the same time - but not this time.

The Trace Log:

===============================================================================
Beginning epg123 update...

Hi have what I believe is a completely setup WMC instance of Windows 7 in a Hyper-V session with the Ceton connected to the virtual and setup with network tuning of the four tuners (infinitv 4). Can get into details if it helps. The xBox 360 comes up and loads media center after entering the 8...

I am in the process of building a new WMC box, and have some questions.

1. What is the best version of WMC? The latest community build from @garyan2 or use the stock one from 7/8?
2. What is the best OS *assuming I don’t care about windows updates*? This will be a WMC only machine not exposed to...

I have been running EPG Collector 4.3FP 23 since April 2020 without an error but starting yesterday, I have the error note above and the script is running in a loop without terminating.
I created a new batch file, thinking the old one has corrupted but it still does the same thing.

I noticed in...

My WMC is only using the last two tuners on my HDHomeRun PRIME. It doesn't use tuner0 and will give me a recording conflict if I want to record a third cable show, rather than using that tuner. However with tuner1 and tuner2 in use, if I bring up the HDHomeRun app on my phone, it will use tuner0 so...

I have a 12 year old Windows 7 HP Desktop workhorse.
My wife used this for her business, which she sold in 2013, it was sparsely used until I asked if I could use this as our HTPC. I had a USB tuner that I was using on my laptop previously.
This would have been around 2015, things worked smoothly...

OTA major network recordings.

I've noticed recently that the subtitles work great until around the last 25% of the program. At that point it stops and then a few seconds later goes to ALL CAPS, is delayed by three to five seconds, and is hit and miss as far as accuracy. Restarting and changing the...

I have been running Windows 7 Media Center for years. MY 9 year old 1080p TV died so I bought a new 4K Smart TV. It seemed to have solved the problem. I watched Live TV for about an hour and then watched an hour long Recorded TV show. When I went to watch another hour long Recorded TV show I got...

New issue on my MC tonight.

I started using the UI, either looking at recording programs or scheduled recordings and the PC rebooted. When it was back up, I went back into MC and it basically did the same thing again. I've done a manual reboot or two. MC isn't crashing now, but recordings are not...

Generally my tuning adapter stops working about every 3 weeks. A power off/on has always fixed it. 10 days ago give or take that didn't fix it. Charter rolled a tech who spent 6 hours redoing everything (3 new TAs, new cable card, new wiring etc). SDV channers were intermittent. He finally gave up....

I am trying to set up my CableCARD using WMC (on my PC with Windows 7), an HDHomeRun Prime, and schedules direct, and I am having issues that I hope someone here might be able to help me figure out. I am not overly familiar with these types of systems and still trying to learn. A friend of mine...

First, my apologies for reintroducing this subject, but the proposed solutions I have found are very confusing or manual and inconvenient.

My problem is WMC does not honor my start early and end late preferences in recording defaults for consecutive programs recording on the same channel, despite...

I've had WMC working fine on my last TV for years on my win7 machine,
I just got a new Samsung q900b 8k tv and am having problems.
WMC works great a long as I have the TV on, it uses the all in one box with all inputs separate from the TV and I can switch as amany inputs as I like without problem....

I am having trouble getting any live channel to play on Windows Media Center. I am trying to get it going on a Lenovo Thinkcentre M710s running Windows 7.
For the last 8 years I have been running WMC on a Dell Optiplex with a HD Homerun Prime with very little issues. However, the hard drive died...

I have been running WMC on an HTPC using a three tuner HD Prime and connected to an AV receiver and Plasma TV for at least 8 years with no real issues. Recently started it back up again after a year and a half of YouTube TV. I've noticed a couple of things which seem odd. For one, the sound through...

Hello,
I am really a neophyte at this, but Media Center and EPG123 have been working perfectly for me for a couple of years.
I turned off my Media computer and router for three weeksbecause I was on vacation.
My schedulesdirect account is paid for into January.
When I turned everything on today the...

I have a .wtv video file that I want to use WMC to play. For some reason sometimes these videos will play in wmp but with one channel of audio missing, where it will play fine in WMC. I have no option when I right click it for WMC. I try using browse to set it as an option in the list and it does...

Built a windows 7 media center in March

Noticed there was 5 optional updates last week and installed them for the craic

Since then computer wakes instantly from standby

It sleeps for 3 seconds at the most

System restore to before the issues started didn't fix it

I tried everything, wake on...

hi all,

I'm having an issue where when a scheduled recording is set to record, it'll usually skip it and record the 2nd or 3rd instance of it, if available, and then always seems to record 4 minutes after the set start time for the show. I can't figure out why...

I started having this issue after...

Hello,

My Media Center now asks to update PlayReady after every reboot of the PC. Not sure exactly when this started as I do not reboot so often. Many times it takes several retries to get the update to work. I am wondering if anyone is having similar issues or has any suggestions.

Thank you.

Get this message (for a long time) when recording a scheduled program.
The program still gets recorded without problems.
Just curious if anyone has noticed it too.

Rec Stor Unavailable.jpg

Has anyone been able to set up a new Windows 7 Media Center install with a cable provider that has copy protected channels? I can't get past the Playready activation and without that, I can't receive copy protected cable channels.

I have an older machine that is running Windows 7 from years ago...

three consecutive programs are scheduled. At first the first one did not record, WMC error 1073478364, now the 2nd will not record either, only the last one. always the same error code.
I deleted all the schedule list and reentered them. Nothing else is scheduled at that time.
Signal was fine.
I...

Would be cool if I could pause playback.
Press a keyboard shortcut or something.
And then a plug-in would automatically screen-capture the next X number of frames and save them to JPG or PNG or something.

Why? So I could then convert them into a GIF.
Like, if I want to capture 20 frames of a...

Hi all, as noted above getting the dreaded Files Needed To Display Video Are Not Installed error message for a few weeks. First the specs:

Home built in 2014 HTPC running W7 & WMC7
2 HD Homerun dual tuners
Not hooked up to external tuner since move to a new house 4 years ago, it is display only...

Here's a screenshot below of WMC when The Maxifier isn't running.
When The Maxifier *is running*, that X and the window & minimize button... all three of them go away.
Can't figure out what I'm doing wrong.
The behavior has persisted over a couple of different format/reinstalls and I'm just now...

Anyone know how to change the names on the left side of this screenshot?

Or at least how to re-order them?

I have no kids.
And HDTV is a bit redundant these days.
Would rather have an Old TV shows Channels category instead of a Movies .

etc.

I’m trying to set up a series recording for NFL football but keep running into a snag. Whenever there is more than one game being broadcast at the same time WMC will set the first to record and not the second saying the other will be recorded on the previous channel. Then it gives the recorded game...

Hi all. Do you know of a way to wipe all the channels from WMC and set them up again? After a recent remapping of the digital channels in my area at the beginning of this month, I could not pick up certain channels. Specifically I am talking about channel 18.9-18.12 in the Los Angeles area.

Things...

Greeting
I put a fresh install of win 7 on a 2016 MB (much faster than current working WMC) did what I understood to be the final updates. Had all the drivers so device manager looked good. Activated Windows. All UEFI stuff turned off. Currently using old intel nuc with two primes and a OTA tuner....

For some reason I canot record a series.
Example, if I try searching for The Big Bang Theory it tells me there are no results.
If I go to the guide listing, select an episode and tell it to record the series, all I get is that one episode.
The guide listings are visible up to Sept 18.

Power surge smoked my motherboard last week. HDD is fine, but installing a new motherboard (and CPU) causes Win7 to think it needs a new license (boot halts at UEFI).

I have a 2008 DVD of WIn 7 but don't even know if it'll download updates, let alone allow me to bootstrap to get back my...

Hi all.
I'm looking for help in finding a soundbar that could work with my setup.
I have a simple but effective system that has Windows 7 Windows Media Center and I plan to use this system as long as humanly possible. I use it for accessing a CableCard tuner , which is the aspect that keeps me on...

I am trying to solve a recording problem with my Ceton InfiniTV4 tuner. None of my recordings are completing. They start fine but after a random number of minutes I get the Weak TV Signal and the program continues to record but the warning is the only thing you can see. The problem started 8 weeks...

Anyone figured out how to get this going?
When I search for WMC + Shield all the results are just of people migrating from WMC to Shield.

I keep getting the disk full error while watching live tv. The disk I use for recording isn't full. Most solutions I've googled are for people with external drives, mine isn't. I can restart and watch for a few minutes and get the same error. I've deleted recordings and checked the drive under...

Hi all
Anyone had a problem with when going into movies in MCE the movie art covers disappear Going back to default rectangle icon with movie name only & then things freeze up & have to restart MCE through task manager
seems to be after adding movie art posters with Media Center Master
Cheers Glenn

Trying to help a friend with a VERY weird problem.

WMC was working fine until a year or so ago, but suddenly developed a very strange issue that I could not help him resolve remotely. I'm now visiting him for a couple days, and thought I'd see if I could get any better results in person. No joy so...

I have read about this before but I dont recall the fix. I have tried the weak signal.msi patch.
Was there a regedit to extend the time?

NO TV SIGNAL
There was no TV signal on channel X so {show name} could not be recorded. Reschedule the recording after verifying the TV signal is working for that...

Hi All,

Last week I imaged my C: drive to get more space. Then I migrated all my media files from 4 HDs down to one new 8TB HD. So now I have a C: and M: drive only. I don't use the C: for any media or TV recordings. But now when I go into the TV Recordings on my MCE, I see two listings for every...

EDIT: Disregard below. The overide drm fixed it

I've searched and tried many many tips here in GB to no avail.
I had a system die but the c drive was fine. I put that drive in a new system and of course it broke playready and drm.

I was wondering if anyone could walk me thru a few steps that...

Has the problem ever been solved?
Now DisplayPort is HDCP compliant per the spec, it is just that no one modified WMC. Is there any Hack or registry voodoo to get it done? I have no HDMI port and am stuck at this point

I need to re-install Windows 7 on my HTPC. What do I need to do so that when I re-install WMC I can get everything back the way it was? (I'm using EPG123 for program guide).

Sunday night, like many, I experienced an EPG123 SD failure related to SD itself. At the exact same time I was setting up a manual recording, apparently. EPG 123's/SD guide is now back, but the Scheduled Programs area is not right as when I go to a scheduled show and select Do Not Record or do much...

Is there any way to do this maybe a registry key? I know if you use an external player like VLC you can do it that way. Not what what I am looking for

Having 2 weird problems
Using HDhomerun cable and WIndows 7 Pro which MCEbuddy scans the shows and uploads them to my Home server WD Mycloud with 3 additional 8 tb drives plugged into WD with USB.

1 - Lately on my Recorded TV folder on D: there is a folder called TempSBE with files in it :...

I'm setting up a new Windows 7 system and everything's working pretty good except for some reason there's one channel that won't show up in Windows Media center. When looking at the client configuration of epg 123 the Channel shows up on both sides correctly however when I go in to Windows Media...

Can anyone recommend an EASY way to automatically move recordings from 8 client PCs on my LAN to my Synology NAS (on the same LAN)?

Windows Home Server used to do this, but since moving to Synology I have not been able to find a way to replicate this functionality (move each recording as soon as...

Hi There
use epg123 and schedule direkt (list A1 TV for Austria, Sat Astra 19.2 E) on 2 laptops with W7 and 2 receivers, so far so well
one of them Master and Client, on the other only client version, always updated newest data by stick, works well

middle of April - dont know the exact date -...

I have two issues I have been trying to fix, hopefully you guys can help me. I just had to switch from XBMC to WMC because I want to watch my ripped blurays and record tv (Infinitv4), and although I am missing XBMC, i know WMC is my only option if I want 1 program to manage both.

1. When fast...

Like almost everyone else, when I'm done watching TV I go 'back' to the main menu and leave WMC running when I turn off the TV. Occasionally, I have a solid green screen when I turn the TV back on, no cursor or anything.

I can press 'enter' and the screen comes back, displaying the channel guide....

Running 2 Cablecard tri-tuners for years. last night at 9pm screens went black.
Comcast.
2 Win7 MCE detect and see tuners but No sounds or Video in HDhomerun App or MCE.
1 Win10 using HDHomeapp App works fine.

is there some new DRM issue in Win7 preventing HDHomerun App/MCE?

Currently my recorded TV is saved on an internal HD. I am considering moving my recorded TV using Robocopy to my NAS (Apple Time Capsule 2TB). However, after doing some testing and manually moving over some recorded content to my Time Capsule, then adding that location to WMC Media Libraries, I've...

So, after the kill update, I had to wipe and reinstall win7 and setup from scratch. Took a day, but I got it running.

Then a few weeks later, Morning expanded to 4 hours. BUT, they added it by creating a new 1 hr time slot. They didn't expand the original 3 hr slot, they added another 1 hr slot!...

I was a faithful user of Windows Media Center for 10 + years. That being said, it is time to move on. For the past 6+ months I have been using Channels DVR and HD Homerun DVR. I prefer the Channels DVR ... guide/recording is much better. I have multiple Apple TV devices which I use. It is very...

I've been working on this for about 3 months!
I tried different versions of Windows 10 and the latest Windows 7
here's what worked for me. I had to install Windows 10 version 1511
(and block all updates)
do a search for Windows 10 version 1511

now everything works perfectly and I can record any...

So I am doing a fresh install of Windows 7 and Media Center - I am trying to set it up and I installed Play Ready and Digital Cable Advisor (both 64-bit, since the OS is 64 bit) from and I am getting

Digital Tuner Setup

Your computer is not digital cable ready. You will not be able to set it up...

Anyone know if I can get The Maxifier to squeeze the image?
I have been able to get it to maximize the screen but it's zoomed in too much.
I lose information on the top and bottom as you can see in the first screenshot.
Maxifier Normal.jpg

I am able to use Maxifier to move the screen upwards a...

My WMC with epg123 has worked great for a couple of years, but due to a problem with the cable provider, I had to re-run the TV setup. After this, the guide will not show any data. We have two PCs, and this has happened to both. Some setting has changed somewhere, but I don't have a clue how to...

I have two Xbox 360's that are WAY old, but work to take the broadcast through HD Homerun and go through that laptop that has Windows 7 and WMC on it. Xbox 360 then broadcasts to my tv. The issue is that when I turn on my system I have to turn the Xbox off then on again, then it works. Has anyone...

So I recently had a hard drive failure and lost everything. I'm back up and running but keep getting an error message when I try to install my cable card stating that my computer is not digital cable ready. From what I can tell, I need to run the Microsoft Digital Cable Advisor Tool, however that...

I have a HD HomeRun PRIME

So I have trying step 2 in epg123 - it doesn't see a tuner, so I am trying to install the HDHomeRun program. It installed all of the .net framework that it needs, then when it is trying to start the services it says “Service ‘HDHomeRun Service’ (HDHomeRun Service) failed...

I have a pool of XBox devices in my basement and have been using my XBox Slim for years. Works good. Then had this login issue and XBox started complaining it needed the Optional Media Update. Couldn't get past it. Finally found an XBox Phat in my basement that had the update on it and my profile...

I am getting the new tv data could not be downloaded message on a new install of W7 and WMC. Can anyone help please?

My Windows 7 Media Center died. I looked at ebay and facebook marketplace. Would I be better off getting another Win 7 or Win 10 unofficial. I didn't know how well it was working on 10. I guess I just need to make sure it has an express slot for my Ceton and another for the HDMI card. I assume my...

I've had this problem for a long time now. I had a series set up to record a maximum of 10. It would record 20. I removed it and re-added it...same result. So, recently I decided to just delete the series and leave it off of the recording list. It is still recording. It is gone from the scheduled...

Our previous secondary Media Center PC died and I'm trying to set up a spare Win7 machine to show and record programming delivered via Verizon FiOS. But I can't get the system to tune to any channels.

Here's what I have done so far:

* Validated the CableCARD on the new PC. (It sits inside a Ceton...

folks. I'm trying to run media center under windows 7 under parallels.

Seems to operate ok until playing a recorded program.... At the point where I try to play somehing I get no error but no window opens and nothing plays.

Anyone else tried to do this?

George Rachor

george@rachors.com

I built my HTPC with the intent of running all TV and ripped media thru Kodi, with OSMC running on a couple of remote client RPs. Everything was great until Cox activated the CopyOnce CCI flag on all national cable channels, rendering Kodi and OSMC useless for anything besides local OTA that was...

Hello,

I've been trying to set up my TV Wonder 650 (which fully supports ClearQAM) with WMC, however, when I go through the setup, it says it can't detect the signal type.

I then proceed to try to manually configure it but when I go to select cable , it forces analog cable, not ClearQAM digital...

I use my Media Center daily and certainly enjoy all its wonderful features. Sadly some of those features are no longer available.

Here is my problem
I am not able to update my channel frequencies since about 2020 after the last federal remapping changes to the channel's broadcast frequencies....

Hello,
5 or more years ago i was using a cablecard with a 3 tuner HDhomerun with Win7 Media Center and it was working well.
But the wife was never a big fan and went back to using the whole home DVR instead. So here we are today and my wife
has been out of work due to covid for almost a year and...

I need to pick out an Extender for Windows 7 WMC. From what I can tell there are dedicated units and also the Xbox 360. I only need basic function for guide and live TV, and just want the most reliable, least complicated way to go.

Any and all suggestions are welcome.

I recently replaced my aging 1st generation Intel NUC with a newer 6th generation model that supports 4k. I was able to get it up and running with Windows 7 using a patched Win 7 iso. I got everything setup to work with my SD HDHR Prime tuners, but now I want to add my HDHR OTA tuners for local...

Having searched this topic, all I can find are posts by people who need help enabling the screensaver. I would like to disable it. If I pause my TV and leave the room for 20 minutes or more, I would like to come back to see the picture still on the screen. Same if I leave the program guide up and...

My windows 7 media center clock was running fast (1 minute a week) and it was interfering with the TV recordings. I configured the media center of an old computer and installed the latest EPG123. However, EPG doesn't download TV program updates automatically, so every 10 days I have to download the...

I noticed just in the last week, that many of my directories show as empty in WMC, when I can see the files there in Windows explorer. Or WMC shows episodes 1, 5, 8, 16 of a TV show (for example) when I know there are a total of 20 episodes in the directory.

Any thoughts on why this might happen?

I’d like a nicer over the air antenna type multiple tuner
I’ve been using a haugpage 1800 for ten flawless years also a silicon dust dual tuner which is substandard, it worked 95% of time.

Replaced the silicon dust w/ a haugpage 2250 dual tuner purchased used on ebay, it worked flawlessly for 6...

I have a weird mapping situation here.
Normally 27.4 is LAFF and 43.4 is BOUNCE but it’s now reversed. See pic attached.
When I record 43.4 now, it’s recording 27.4 and vice versa.
I tried reinstalling WMC, delete eHome files, rescanning TV signal but problem is not solved.
Does anyone have this...

I recently had an issue with my WMC. Any new copy protected live TV or recently recorded TV would not display video.

After researching and trying many different things, I may have made things worse.

In mid July, more and more of my recorded TV would display a blank screen. Audio was ok. This...

I didn't find another post on this topic, so here goes - after a period of time, the channel logos change from color to black & white. When I close WMC, launch My Channel Logos and reload the logos, they appear in color when I restart WMC but then revert back to B&W after a while. Anybody else have...

I'm on version 1.7.0.10. I have 3 different channels that are not getting sent correctly to my cable box. My cable provider is Spectrum (digital). I can not figure out why cable box channel 197 is being sent via IR to the cable box as channel 2.

I've tried several google searches and searches here...

Pause play for like 10 minutes then black screen w/ only volume
Sometimes I forget to completely click off a program that has been on pause,
Like I pause and don’t click back to all recorded TV.

I believe this is a common issue w/ MC7, I have been resorting to restarting which is a major...