Topic is probably WELL beyond the scope of this forum but figured I'd put it out there and see if it's even worth messing with and/or other ideas to try first.

System - 6th gen i7 desktop, 16gb mem 256 gb ssd; 12 tb external recording drive
Guide will sometimes slow down to unusable; most...

Hi, Iam using WMC for long time and was working fine, but for about a month Live tv and recorded programs have a delay of about 35 seconds to start from the time I key in the channel or select a recorded program. It also happens when switching channels. I uninstalled and reinstalled WMC but the...

Hello, my WMC 8.8.5 installation displays No TV signal via systray icon since August update on Win 10 23H2. It does not record TV, live view does not work, scanning for new channels does not habe any result, and so on. The PC has a DVB-S 2 card which is still recognized in device manager. I created...

hello everyone, im pretty new to the fourms and i wanted to use WMC on Windows 10 22h2 (OS BUILD:19045.4291), so i downloaded version 8.8.5 via a youtube video, did the installation and when i tried to start it up, it just did nothing.
i checked task manager and the tray application launched for...

Dear WMC Friends,

Netflix stopped supporting movie downloads to Windows devices, so I am setting up my 2in1 Win 10 laptop to play recorded WMC movies for when I travel by air without Internet access. The community WMC and Recorded TVHD installed just fine, but the-used-to-work version of Media...

Hey Guys,
I have an issue with w10MCE in that even though I click the “allow 32 tuners “ button in Tweak MCE inside of the EPG123 client gui, but I still only see 4 tuners if each type. I have eight virtual iptv tuners set up but I only ever see the first four. Anyone have any insight here ?

Hi Everyone,

I have built a new PC and setup 8.8.1 MCE on Windows 10 Pro (1607) and its setup and working well. The tuners, EPG, Scheduled recordings etc are working correctly. I am trying to get an XBOX 360 working with Win 10 and have modified the termsrv.dll file to allow an extender to connect...

Due to Microsoft stopping support releases for Windows 7, I recently updated my Windows 7 to Windows 10 and installed Media Center 8.8.4. All good except I cannot add my two xbox 360 extenders.

When I try to add them it says configuration error. I have added the media center extender to the...

I've been using WMC 8.8.5 on Windows 10 for about a year with no problems. In the last month I have been not been able to record tv shows due to There will not be enough disk space to record this show I have always deleted the default recording location on the system disk and put it on a separate...

Hello, I switched to Windows 10 in the 32-bit version for my very old Asus EeeTop ET 2002T.
The computer is intended exclusively for music and is not on a network.

Can someone please provide me with the latest 32-bit version of the Media Center software?
Kind regards
Christian

I first wrote about this some 15 months ago and have been on Intel's back since Gen 11 onwards processors were released.

As of today the issue of WMC FS failing on program change is now solved - by Intel!

The problem first appeared with Intel Gen 11 CPU/GPUs, then running video driver V...

Firstly, I want to say I’M SO GLAD there is a community of people that still enjoy Windows Media Center functionality!!! :clap:
I have so much stuff recorded from TV in it that I couldn’t afford to upgrade to Windows 10 until I recently gave it a try.
Long story short: I upgraded from Windows 7...

Hello everyone,

I am running a fresh install of WINDOWS 10 PRO X64 with WINDOWS MCE 8.9.0 and Playready 1.3.10 (Manually installed). The problem I am having is whenever i am prompted to update PLAYREADY it says it cannot connect
to the internet. Even though I have tried to turn off the WINDOWS...

HI,
It's possible that no one has problems with the media player music library, as you can see in the video it messes up with the album covers and when I open WMC to listen to an album it does more or less the same thing it's as if it had to reload the entire library every time opens, I'm sorry...

Just got the latest windows update ( KB5031356 (OS Builds 19044.3570 and 19045.3570) 10/13/2023. WMC gives me the ALL CURRENT TUNERS IN USE when I try to go to live TV or recorded TV as well. So uninstalled and reinstalled WMC v13. No change. Did this happen to anybody else?

Hey all, so I'm gonna start by mentioning that I have no interest in video or TV content in WMC, just music and playing CDs. Is there a better app? Maybe, but I like WMC.

I used garyan2's MSI installer , which would install and open, but then crawl along with my GPU louder than a fighter jet....

Is it possible to reset WMC while keeping the recording schedule, channel mapping, etc.?

Everything is working fine except if I want to update an existing series, it hangs the computer for about 5 minutes. It eventually completes the task.

Other simple things, like browsing the guide seem slow...

I setup Windows 10, installed HDHomerun software, configured WMC, configured EPG123, installed DVRMSToolbox 1.2.2.7, and DTBAddin 1.0.0.9.

WMC seems fine. I can browse the guide and record on demand or schedule.

After a show records, DVRMSToolbox watches the directory and allocates a worker to...

I feel like I went down this path before but search isn't finding it.

I had a failed install of 8.8.5 (I think) some time ago. I am not having any luck finding an uninstall, but WMC is definitely at least partially installed. I can launch it and can walk thru the setup process at least to some...

WMC keeps throwing up errors when shows are scheduled to be recorded - not every time but often. Sometimes despite the error the show is still recorded.

I've pasted examples below - would appreciate help in translating them and knowing how to fix/stop them:

Warning 3/14/2024 8:28:00 PM Recording...

I have been running WMC in Win 8-10 for some years. Recently my existing PC died, so I have obtained a replacement PC and installed WMC on it.

In order to complete setup, I set NO to internet always available so that it wouldn't get stuck on trying to download EPG from MS. But now there is no EPG....

If I let my computer sleep while WMC is on, on wake-up about half the time the screen will be blank and remote is unresponsive. Most of the time, I can hit the windows key and kill WMC, then everything is normal.
I'm running the latest WMC build, on Windows 11 (latest probably). (my PC is older and...

Currently, the language for installing WMC on Windows 10 has added support for zh-CN/zh-HK. I would like to ask if it can add support for the language zh-TW. Currently, the system is installed with the region set to Taiwan. The WMC is the English version, not the Traditional Chinese version

Hello all,

Long time since my last post.
Which means I'm a very happy user. :thumbup:

However, my old PC has to retire.
A good time to dive into WMC again.
In my setup I use DVBLogic.
Unfortunately, I did not buy an IPTV license in time.
And now I would like to add IPTV.
With DVBLogic EOL I...

Just posted this on the win 11 group, but this one is more active.

I have just replaced an ageing Athlon Shuttle PC with a Geekom IT11. The recommended resolution matching my Sony TV was 3840x2160. WMC interface ran okay for couple of minutes then scrolling menus was very slow. The WMC config said...

We all know that Windows 10 will get its last security update some time in 2025. They have anounced that security updates will be available for an extra 3 years even for Joe Bloggs as long as they pay. The hope is you will get them for free if you are a subscriber to one of Microsofts Office...

Hi

I'm a Windows Insider tester, also a long-term WMC user. From the Win 11 compilation 25131 (latest is 25140) I can't watch TV from external cable tuner in WMC. On each channel, regardless paid or free I've got famous message Copying Prohibited. The broadcaster prohibits this content from being...

Hi, after W10 cumulative update on 11th of October, WMC does not play recordings anymore.
I have restored to a previous restore point and stopped automatic updates. Works now for the time being.
Any suggestions?

I've been using WMC and EPG123 in W7 for years. I have a cable box and 2 HDHR tuners. I switched to W10 and did WMC install 8.9.1 No problems, it's great. Followed the install instructions. Have 2 lineups with SD. Cable and OTA. I selected client setup. Did clean start, WMC TV Setup. WMC found all...

Because EPG was not working any more, I decided to give version 8.9.1 a try after my version 8.8.5 worked for a long time flawlessly in Win10. I had to see, that the tv setup does not find any channels after scanning. After I restored my backup of 8.8.5, all channels where present again, but...

Hello folks,

At my parents‘ place, I still have a WMC running on Windows 10, which works still great for them as sophisticated TV:

Remote is a Logitech Harmony Companion
EPG works EPG Centre except for special characters, but that‘s not a big deal
TV with a dual setup and CI card work for...

Some time earlier this year, my HTPC developed a problem where although WMC records any channel that has a signal, I can't watch Live TV (either through the guide or the shortcut on the home screen) unless it is already recording.

I get a blank screen followed by a message saying that there is no...

Hello so I love windows media center however they don't have cable cards or stuff like that to my knowledge would it be possible to use WMC with dish network can I get rid of the dish overlays when changing a channel also. Thanks for the help!

I finally built a new desktop computer and decided to upgrade my old Win7 computer to Win 10.

I got the notice that WMC was uninstalled during the upgrade.

Installed WMC for Win 10 from the link at epg123.

The install seemed to go fine. I tested the recording off something on the Guide and it...

I am using HD HOMRUN Prime with 3*tuner along with cisco STA 1520 tuning adaptor, for WMC for at least for past 6 years, now tuning adaptor has 8 blinking light, based on my search it means, it has to be pinged from spectrum site, but they are claiming that they do not support Cisco STA tuning box...

If not what is the easiest way to accomplish this task?

How to save my WMC settings for my transition from Win 7 to 10, and then from 10 to 11?

Thanks

hey i need the download of this version(the 32 bits ver), and i hear about the problems that can happen, i hope they help me

Hi,

After a long absence I have returned to this forum and I see that there is a new EPG (EPG123) and modded versions of WMC to go with later versions of Windows. I am still on Win7 on my HTPC but would be very keen on a working EPG and I understand EPG123 will work in the UK for Freeview so want...

When I got this computer it was a wreck from someone trying to do a dual boot so I just started over from fresh and did Windows 10 on it. I am all the way to 22H2 and I discovered all the old programs that used to be on it and have gotten most to work but during the updates I lost Windows Media...

I just installed WMC for 11 and EPG123 on a new Win 11 computer (thanks GaRyan2). The installation took some time, but it seems (mostly) flawless so far.

The only issue that I am having is that live and video playback is interlaced for some reason. I took a closer look at one of the files that I...

Hello
I'm resurrecting an old MSI Media Live and have yet to find a 32BIT WMC for Windows 10 that works.
Anyone help with a link that works please ?
I don't really want to rollback to Windows 7 or XP if I don't have to.
Thanks

Hello,

At the beginning :) there was games like Solitaire.
How to now on WMC W10 ?
Can't find answers :(
Thanks !

I have a dual hard drive. The old hard drive disk plays everything just fine. I didn't upgrade it to 22H2. I don't ever use it. I use my solid state hard drive. Everything was fine until about three weeks ago. I have tried everything. I got the shark codes and that didn't work. I have tried...

I am currently using W10 V1511. I got a new TV and when I would stream video in full screen, it would turn pink until I wne back to normal size. I removed the Nvidia GT 1030 and switched over to the Intel 4600 integrated graphics card. I then wasn't able to select the minimize, maximize or exit...

Cuz whenever I try any of the files to install it myself, it doesn't work. Pls help.

My old HTPC blew its motherboard, so I upgraded to more modern components and installed Windows 11 on it. The only old component is my trusty ATI TV Wonder 650 PCI-e tuner card for ATSC (OTA) TV.

WMC 8.9.1 installed just fine and the TV setup was painless. Had some issues with schedule updates in...

I have tried to use shortcuts like /playfavslideshowwithmusic with ehshell.exe.
That doesn't work anymore. Is that feature gone?
Thanks for an information.

Hi

Not been around for a very long time. I'm using MCE on a old version of Win10 which I've frozen on an old Shuttle PC, which is over 10 years old. Installed a SSD a few years back even though it's not fully utilised on the Shuttle. Recently upgrade the TV card to a Hauppage dual USB, as it had...

I have finally had to upgrade to a Windows 10 system with the new WMC from the original WMC on my windows 7 system. After forgetting how to set up EPG to work with it I have just recorded several programs. I have a question on the recording view that now shows a picture of the recorded program and...

Sorry about the length of this post but I need to give some background to the problem I am facing.

I have been using WMC since it came out and have run it on all sorts of PCs with very few issues. I have always found that it performs very well but I am somewhat stumped by what I encountered...

I got W10 1511, WMC to properly scan the cable card.

Will this this combination W11 and the cable card ever work?
Gary posted a warning:
NOTE: CableCARD users are limited to using WMC on Win10 1511 and older.
DRM protected channels will not work on newer versions of Windows10/11.

Version:...

Sorry if this has been asked and answered, but it's surprisingly tricky to search for help with the green button on a site call The Green Button.
I have the Microsoft WMC remote. After installing Windows 10 and WMC, pressing the green button on the remote no longer launches or switches to WMC. It...

I have a valid product key for W10.
Can someone post a link for Windows 10 Build 1511?

Hey everyone,

For those who are not actively following the MyDigitalLife forum, we recently discussed options to use Windows Media Center with Tvheadend:

As I suspect this may be useful to other TBG members, I took some time to document this process here:

Hope it will be useful to someone...

And this is on an older desktop PC not officially supported by MS for windows 11. Everything is working smoothly, no glitches. The board MS-7548 has an AM3 cpu allowed to work with a bios upgrade and 5 ATSC tuners with 14TB of drive storage. I use a WD Blue SSD 1tb for the main os and a GT730 vid...

I installed WMC 8.9.1 Installation MSI on a fresh WIndows 10 install. Everything went smoothly, however if I play a HD channel with Dolby Digital Plus the audio gets stuck on a 1 sec loop then crashes the player.
Dobly Digital is bitstreaming fine in VLC so it's not a audio driver problem.
I tried...

Tried multiple times. I setup the channel scanning, it says 5 tuners exist but only 4 will be configured. clicked in EPG123 to set to 32 tuners. Ran channel scan again and it still says 5 tuners detected only 4 to be configured.
What am I doing wrong? Does windows 11 need restarting after tuner...

Can’t watch cabletv recordings on same PC it’s recorded on. Just started this morning. Uninstalled WMC, rebooted, reinstalled WMC same issue. Any idea how to fix?
Thanks

Hello,

I have a WMC setup on Windows 10, and all was great for some time. Then recently, I upgraded our SiliconDust HDHomeRun CONNECT QUATRO SIHDHR54US - and now I get an error every time WMC starts to record a show. The show DOES record, but the error box happens every time the recordings start....

Hi

I am new to the Green Button Community and so apologies if this question has already been covered but I could not see it.

I am trying to install this on to a computer which has previously had WMC running. I have tried to uninstall, reboot and re-start a few times but have found that on...

I have a widescreen monitor with pivoting stand. While in pivot/portrait mode, I opened the WMC Guide and the window resized to fit the new screen width.

Back in normal Widescreen (landscape) mode, WMC is stuck in a 4 : 3 window. Resizing by width also resizes by height so it remains stuck in 4 :...

So I have always held-back on upgrading from W7 to W10 because I still use WMC. However once I realised @garyan2 had created a W10 WMC & that MS were still offering a free W7->W10 upgrade, I thought I would take the plunge. All seemed to go well, until the TV Setup & whereas usually I would get...

Hi folks

Does the live tv part of the standalone WMC install work, i wanted to setup live tv but it wants to download the files from Microsoft servers, it stays on that screen and doesnt go any further, i know Microsoft closed thier WMC servers down ages ago so how do i go about setting up live tv

Hi there,

Have been running 8.8.5 flawlessly on various machines for several years now; mucked about with all sorts of combinations of hardware and software and have never ever had a problem before. Until now...

Have been trying to set up a new little HTPC; a dead simple/basic build with a 12100...

I'm having an issue that I hope you guys have an answer for.
I have recently moved my recorded TV to a network drive. Since that move, WMC doesn't seem to remember what point I have watched a program up to when I try to resume playback. So if I watch a show for 30 minutes and hit stop, it will...

Hi Guys. I apologize in advance, but I was just wondering if this Windows 10 version of WMC supports extenders?

What PCI-e TV Tuner cards are people using successfully with W10 MC? Specifically DVB-S2 & DVB-T2. Many thanks.

Hello all,

I have a Windows 10 22H2 PC running WMC 8.9.1 by GaRyan2 (wmcsetup-x64.msi) along with the the Windows DVD Player app (kb3106246).

Motherboard: Gigabyte Z87N-WIFI
TV PCIe card: Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-2205.
RAM: 10GB DDR3
System drive: SK hynix SC300 2.5 7MM 256GB (SSD)
Media Drive: WDC...

I just did a clean install of 8.8.4 on 1909 and it's working perfectly (so far ;)) except for one issue... I can't get the remote to work in Windows, it works fine in WMC. I noticed that ehtray.exe does not start by default - if I start it manually, the green button works to launch WMC but then if...

Is there a way to change WMC to use different codecs and/or disable hardware acceleration?

I have WMC10 running on a mini-PC using Intel integrated graphics (11th Gen Intel Core i5-11400H), mostly watching DVB-T2 HD or SD recorded TV (UK).

Using the originally-supplied Intel UHD Graphics driver...

Hi folks new here thanks for having me :) first I am running a windows 10 x64 machine with dvblogic 4.6.0 and have installed windows mce numerous versions now and even reset my PC to clean up the mess. What is happening is the dvblink sync in mce extra's does not always install for me...

I recently updated my living room HTPC from Windows 7 to Windows 10 (fresh install). Everything went pretty well, except that now I get intermittent, but frequent and sometimes persistent, garbled sound on OTA content.

I've searched online several times, and haven't been able to find a solution,...

In my configuration, this Super Bowl will be a significant milestone in digital TV broadcasting and W10 media center recording. Tonight’s proof of concept below indicates Fios is transmitting 4K on an experimental channel and is twice the network rate for a 1080i channel.
The amazing thing is that...

I’ve have downloaded and installed the files from Gary’s wonderful page for my Windows 8.1 system: Windows Media Center, Digital Cable Advisor, Playready 1.3.0, and resetDRM.

When trying to view cable channels with my HDHomeRun PRIME which has a Technicolor/Cisco cable card, I was getting the...

Hey there. Was wondering if anyone has been able to get WMC to work on ARM64. It installs fine, but when you launch it, it runs and then crashes after 5-10 seconds.

here i made a new theme :

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I spent a good bit of time last night on this new win 11 box getting WMC installed with EPG123. The install went smooth (Thanks GaRyan). Then a windows update came in this morning and trashed WMC. The guide data and program scheduling was wiped clean. WMC required that I go through the setup again...

I am doing something that I guess is overly complex, trying to setup a Ceton InfiniTV 4 in a brand new Ryzen 7950x rack mount unit. Will have Windows 2022 Server installed and Hyper-V. Long story short, I have been able to get it working with a virtual of Windows 7 as a network tuner. Everything...

I've read a bunch of threads here and looked a bunch of different installers...
Some say nothing works past 15xx and others say it works just great...

I've been a WMC user since it first came out and I'm tired of using old hardware..
Is there a way to get fully functional WMC on Win 10/11 and me...

Hi iam looking for version 8.9.0 by Garyryan but can't find it can anybody help please.

The app you are trying to install isn't a verified app Pops up when I try to open WMC. I can select install anyway and it will open WMC, but its annoying. I am not installing anything, just trying to open already installed WMC. Do you know how to kill this popup?

Hi all,

I recently built a HTPC. Aorus b550i board, AMD Ryzen 4600g, 16gb ram, Windows 10 pro. Pretty capable. Movies, TV shows on a NAS source. PCIE DVB-S2 dual tuner.

I installed WMC (really great work by the way by the dev Gary on here). It is amazing but I am hitting a wall with the 'wife...

I'm trying to upgrade my existing Win8.1 Media Center to Windows 10, doing an in-place upgrade of the OS (using a 22H2 install USB created using the Media Creator Tool) and then installing Gary's WMC MSI package (8.9.0). The MSI appears to have installed successfully, but attempting to run WMC...

I installed Windows Media Center on my new Windows 11 machine. It seemed to go well, but when I try and start it I get the following error:
Application: mcupdate.exe
Framework Version: v4.0.30319
Description: The process was terminated due to an unhandled exception.
Exception Info:...

Hey all, first post here!

On my PC, I have a Ceton InfiniTV4 PCI tuner. I have used this in the past with a cable card and it worked great with WMC when I lived in my apartment. Recorded TV and everything. When it came time to upgrade my Windows 7 to 10, I stopped using it since WMC disappeared...

It's been literally a couple of years since I have had to install WMC but I had a Windows snafu and installed a backup which did not have WMC installed. I think I installed version 8.8.4 (could be 8.4.5?). So I am getting two issues as mentioned in the title:

1. All Tuners currently in use -...

I thought I had seen a thread that at least touched on this but can't seem to find it now.

If I just want to duplicate my WMC setup from my win7 PC to a win10 PC (channels, mappings, recordings, favorites, etc) can I just restore an epg123 backup from 1 to the other? If so, how far should I take...

As the subject says, DVD Player not working in Windows 11 22H2, just crashes?

Just to check, will the backup/restore in the database utilities of in EPG123 client back and restore all channels, mappings, recordings, favorites, EPG and WMC settings? Is there only one backup zip file or could be more?

I used the Win10/11 installer with win11 and I upgraded from 22h1 to 22h2....

Hi there

today (!) i swaped my old laptop from W7 to W10 (upgrade) and get from MS 22H2 ....
the istalling of 8.8.5 (Garys version) works well, also the dvdplayer, but when i tried to
activate WMC i failed at least bevor i can start channel-finding (satellit)

anyone else who had this troubles ?...

If there is already something like this, please delete. I didn't see one.

Should be useful, at least to me, to have one place to look to see if anyone has confirmed whether a given month's updates cause WMC/mce problems and potentially the steps someone used to recover from the problem(s)....

Hi
have installd version 8.9.0 including the DVDSoftpackages, works fine so far
but starting a recordet wtv..file with WMC needs around 25 seconds to show a furter 5 sconds to play.
The same file starts with VLC-Player immeadetly...?

Any idea ?

kind regrds
roger

Everything was working fine until I updated the driver to 20.19.15.5144 for Intel HD graphics 4400 and I'd like to know if there's a solution short of rolling back the driver and hoping it doesn't get updated by mistake in the future.

If I get into recorded TV, I see a black screen. If I move the...

Hello,

maybe someone can help solve this issue encountered on Windows 10.

Used to function well on Windows 7 + Windows Media Center,

am using a Netstream DTT (for DVB-T) and Netream Sat (for DVB-S) and both devices are correctly recognized by Windows Media Center (8.8.5 kindly provided by...

Hi,

With Windows 7 ESU and Windows 8.1 reaching end-of-support on January 2023, many other people will probably have the same questions soon, so there is no harm in asking:

1) What is the most trouble-free way to install WMC on Windows 10? Is it the MSI package, or something else? I prefer...

Hi, I think I have a codec issue.

Previously I had an HTPC running windows 7 but the mainboard has failed and I need to replace it.

Here's a bit of context:
System: Lenovo M93p
CPU: i5-4570
Ram: 2x 8GB
GPU: Intel HD4600
OS: Windows 10 21H2
Tuner: HVR-2200

DVD player app seems to be working, it...

(My Old Win7 PC: 2.7gb CPU, 4gb RAM, AMD 5450 video card w/1gb video RAM,
Windows Media Center 8.9.0 64-bit, external Antenna with 75ohm cable)

If I plug the KWorld UB435-Q USB stick into my old Win7 PC, WMC plays & records fine.

If I install a fresh copy of Windows 10 on this PC, WMC acts like...

I recently had to upgrade to a new Windows 11 computer (the hard drive in my eight year old Windows 7 completely died). I have version 21H2 with OS build 22000856. I downloaded WMC but it will not detect my HD Homerun Prime tuners.
The tuners work. I am forced to use the HD Homerun Prime...

Hi all,

Had a problem and decided to start from the beginning but cannot find out how to remove WMC.
Using the newer 8.9 msi it keeps saying WMC is already installed and I cannot get any further.
Cannot delete eHome as I don't have access.

Would appreciate any helpful suggestions

Windows 10 Pro...

I've a simple system here, Windows 10 with Garys installation of MCE and Schedules Direct for the guide.
Had to reinstall Windows 10 after a drive failure before I could do an OS backup. (Planned but never completed)

I'm being asked now why the recordings the wife makes all appear In a flat list...

This is and has been an ongoing issue with WMC. I am running WMC windows 10, thanks to the great support and people who have worked on the project. I have run WMC since it was on xp. Things have changed and media and sound have changed, while WMC is stuck in the past.

I have to leave the PC sound...

Windows 10 LTSC (1903) on a HP Elitedesk 800 home theater PC. Connected via Displayport->HDMI cable to a Yamaha AV amp then video up to a flatscreen TV also via HDMI. WMC 8.5.5, controlled by an HP TSG-IR02 Media Center Remote .

Everything works perfect BUT FOR ONE thing: The HP media center...

Hi,
WMC worked fine on my win 10 laptop.
I upgraded to win 11, and WMC wouldn't launch.
I uninstalled it and installed WMC_6.3.9600.16384_x64_v12
The installation failed. Please see the attached PC1 errors 2022-07-10.txt

I then tried to install on another win 10 laptop.
The installation failed....

Does the unofficial versions of Windows Media Center for Windows 10/11 compatible with Media Center Extenders, just in case someone upgraded their media PC to windows 10 for security reasons? I just wanna know.

As a long time WIN 8.1 WMC and EPG-123 user, I have been trying to move to Windows 10 with WMC Version: 8.9.0 on the same machine. For whatever reason, when I try to setup EPG-123 fresh on WIN 10, WMC is not detecting my HDHomerun Duo tuner. I can see live tv using the Sillicondust app on the same...

I am having a weird issue with a new WMC (msi version) install on the last release of Windows 10 (21H2) on an HP ProDesk 600 G1 Mini using a HDHomeRun tuner.

Everything went fine with the setup, finding the tuner, adding the channels etc. but when I go to watch 'Live TV' only some of the channels...

Lurked here for years and this community is amazing keeping this great software running. Not had any issues Ive not been able to solve with my old build with info from here.
Now I doing a new MC build to replace my very long in the tooth Windows 7 build and I am having issues with PlayReady
Hoping...

Hi I was wondering if it is possible to connect my Spectrum/Charter Cable box to my MCE system. I have windows 10 build 19044. MCE ver. 8.85 a Hauppauge WinTv 1595 dual tuner capable of ATSC and Clear QAM. My antenna connects with no problems when I connect to cable box no signal is found. I have...

I've been working on this for about 3 months! Here's what worked for me:

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...

I played around with WMC in the early days, since i've got cable card it eventual became a no go. i've been using a custom win8. I read somewhere about a vm in 10 running WMC. i searched no luck, does it work well or do you need extenders or?

Asus Z590-i Intel i5-11600, video and audio via HDMI
Windows 10 Pro version 10.0.19043 Build 19043 - latest drivers from Asus, Intel, Microsoft.

MCE install either 8.8.5 or Gary's MSI
WMC runs fine until the 'Mute' button is pressed, then the HDMI output fails and cannot be recovered without a...

Hi,

I finally had it and blew up my WMC 8.1 system after one more stupid permissions change from a Microsoft update that I didn't want to fix.

Now I'm happy to ditch DRM content and simply use the public domain WMC version available to manage basic content from my cable provider. To do this I...

Hi all,

For some reason some h264 MKVs I download the volume control has no effect, it plays at a constant volume no matter where the slider is.

Plays fine outside of media centre, the volume works.

265s it doesnt seem to be an issue, they work fine.

Seems to be the same with Shark or KLIte...

It works fine on version 1909

windows is so many gotcha's

pls help!! :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :(

Windows I accidently got fooled into an update overnight from 1909 to 20H2, used to use stop updates 10, but switched to a reg hack that apparently fails to stop updates, oh well.
So WMC was dead this am.
I downloaded the latest WMC setup, thanks very much garyan2, and reinstalled it and it is...

I tried using MCE Reset Toolbox but it only allows you to add the Application to the Extras Menu Strip. Is there a better one that let's you put it where you want? Thanks

I Just Installed WMC For Windows 10, And The Media Center Themer, And I Needed To Install A WMC Theme To Make It Look Like XP Media Center Edition, But How Should I Find It? :think: When I Searched Something On YouTube, I Found It, It Has A Cool Nostalgic XP Media Center Theme For WMC, And There’s...

Hi please bare with me I’m not very technical :o

Running win10 64bit my WMC 8.8.4 stopped working yesterday wouldn’t allow me to record!
I uninstalled it.
then installed 8.8.5 now all works as it should, in my previous install I had tried with to no avail to move where my recording’s were saved...

After sticking with Win 7 on my WMC computer for many years, finally decided to upgrade it to Win 10 at the start of the year.

Everything went well, except for one problem: Once in a while (about every 3rd-5th time) when I enter WMC it seems to rebuild its database. Some of the shows are there...

Hi,

I know this is a strange request but is there a WMC package for 32 bit Windows 10 20H2?

In it's eternal sniping at WMC users, Windows 10 has disabled WMC on my PC while doing an update to Windows 10 2004. There is apparently a possible fix by restoring some DLL's but the tool is part of an install kit for what was referred to as WMC V13. Is this correct? Where do I get it? Thanks,...

This is a non-problem, more of a puzzle. I use WMC with over-the-air TV in Houston. An example of the puzzle would be just yesterday (Saturday). WMC gave a message in a rectangle on the main screen saying something like No signal detected on channel 2.1, Saturday Night Live will not be recorded...

Hi everyone,

I'm using a Silicon Dust Prime (CableCard) with a W10 1511 / Intel UHD 630 via HDMI, there's a display port also on the PC. Everything is working, but I get Display Driver Error - The video playback device does not support playback of protected content . when I first launch Live TV. I...

I have been trying to upgrade my MCE computer with 10Gbe networking. Not for MCE but a general project in my house. Having some issues with compatibility and drivers and the like. Know Windows 8.1 would be easier to work with, like or dislike the OS. Is it fair to say that using Windows 8.1, a...

An unrelated problem with Win11 forced me to do a Repair install. This fixed the problems I was having with Windows but disabled WMC (once again.)

When I try to run WMC, nothing happens. When I try to run the WMC-8.5.5 installer, it tells me WMC is already installed.

Does this mean I must...

Sorry to bother ya all

I am not that good at computers like you guys are so please bear with my poor education.

I have my MWC installed on computer, computer is using Windows 10, which has ended , now computer is suggestion I update to Windows 10, version, 1903..

will version 1903 eliminate WMC...

Hi,

I have a Ceton InfinitTV 6 cablecard PCI-E tuner I'm trying to get recognized by WMC which I have successfully installed into Windows 10 1607 fresh upgrade from Win 8.1. I am able to watch live TV using NextPVR Application so my tuner card is functioning but WMC just fails to see it to use it....

I've been using an Avermedia AVerTV Hybrid Volar MAX tuner for 10 years without any problems. My old computer died, so I finally built a new one and upgraded to Windows 10. I installed WMC with the v8.8.5 zip file just fine (thank you!). And then I found out that my trusty old tuner is no longer...

Simple question to ask but maybe less simple to answer based on some of the reading I have done.

I have used Shark for years on my Win7 MCE box but with Win10 almost everything is playing (still havent figured out why some of it does not).

What is the recommendation here on the forum? Yay or...

(Note: The tuner works with other apps.)

I upgraded my CPU this morning (and updated my nVidia graphics card driver) and now WMC can't find my TV tuner. Searching for tuner for about a minute before reporting No tuner detected.

My tuner, a WinTV PCIe x1 card, works fine. I have it playing right...

Hello, new here. I had 8.8.4 installed, it quit working for some reason, I could not get wintv to work either, so I figured my old tv card had gone bad, put a new one in today wintv works, WMP still broke so I used the uninstall command as administrator, restarted, and downloaded 8.8.5, and ran...

I am a long-time user of WMC on WIN7 systems and decided to take the leap to see if I could get it running on one of my WIN10 systems. So I downloaded the WMC-8.8.5 zip, files extracted them onto the system and ran the files as an admin then rebooted the system. BTW, this is a clean system (i.e.,...

Hi Guys
I fresh installed Windows 10 (latest version) and installed the WMC 8.8.5 and attempted to get Live TV working using the instructions in the text file which was GunnerHook's tutorial

I was able to scan and find all the channels, however when i click live tv or select any channel, it shows...

WMC 8.8.5
Windows 10 with latest update (not sure which yet)

Windows media center will not load for some reason. EPG123 also, will not load. They try to, but never actually come up. All other programs are working fine.

So I assume I need to reinstall WMC but when I hit the Uninstall.cmd in the...

Hi all, newbie here trying to get WMC Live TV working in Win10. I have a Hauppaugge WinTV-HVR 950Q tuner & WMC runs but when trying to setup channels, it never comes up with analog tuner. I need to have channel 3 setup so I can get signal from comcast cable. Since it only shows digital tuner, I...

Hi, been on my current PVR with Windows Media Center & EPG123 for around 9 years now and I have a few questions:
1. My current one is on its way out - how well does WMC work on 10?
2. Any precautions I need to take with it on 10? i.e. disable updates or add something to boot on startup?
3. Will I...

Ugh, so bummed out with my new build.

Finally upgraded my absolutely ancient HTPC build to a gen3 I7, 24g ram and a 7750 GPU. My MUCH older system still worked mostly, but was starting to have issues and would have needed to reimage anyway. The old build was an Athlon II and an 8600GTS and one of...

I set up my EPG123 this time last year and it was working fine, but I I let it expire. This year I was issued a new password and was told that I would need it in order to receive the current downloads. Do I need to follow the steps outlined at eg123.garyan2.net? If so, where do I apply the...

Apologies if this has been asked before, I searched but didn't find an answer, likely bad wording, google-fu, etc... :mrgreen: .

But what is the difference between these two versions? Are these forks of the same leak/release or competing projects?

Hello, happy new year!

I want to record a documentation series from TV (DVBS2) with the WMC. That documentation series has a total of some hundred parts and a TV station started to send them in the night, several parts per night. I want to take them all, storage is not the problem, but if I want...

Been using the French WMC V8.8.2 on my 2 K TV for a few years. Just bought a new 4K 3840 x 2160 Samsung TV and hooked up my PC to it via the same HDMI I used before. WMC come up OK and I can change settings and stuf but when I start Live TV or a Recorded show, it runs with garbled sound and jerked...

Replacing my WMC/8.1/octopus PC with a lean W10/W11 i5 laptop with SSD and hdmi out.

I want to store recordings on a network drive on my QNAP NAS, but WMC only lets you select physical/local drives.

QNAP NAS forum suggests setting up a iSCSI map, which is a hassle but might work. Any there from...

I don't know why, but my ability to record stopped working.

Everything was fine as recently as last night. Then suddenly this morning, my scheduled recording didn't record. When I click the record button, nothing happens (other than the usual sound you get when you click the Record button.

Guide...

Hello all,
I apologize if this topic has been brought up, but I'm trying to find out if there's a way to convert a WTV file in WMC Windows 10, to a DVR-MS file?
The right-click option which worked in Windows 7 is not working in Windows 10.... (I get an error saying the ...content is not compatible...

Been a fan of MCE ever since the first 2005, but unfortunately my 8.1 system with Digital Devices Duoflex/DVB-C/CI and DVBLink 4.5 has passed away (as well as the local Dutch green button forum). Time for an upgrade, Win11 is now commercially available as well as slim PCs that fit behind the TV or...

Sorry of this has already been covered somewhere but, I couldn’t find anything from searching.
As you all no doubt know the autostart function is not working with WMC in Win 10 out of the gate. Does anyone know of a way or work around to get WMC to start up automatically with Win 10?

Thanks

I have a pretty large music library, all in flac. I use WMP Tag Plus so that WMP/WMC will properly read the flac tags. Each file has an embedded 600x600 album art as well as a folder.jpg in each folder at 600x600. I'm currently using Windows 11 but later versions of Windows 10 caused the same...

I am having a problem in Windows 10 Pro v. 21H1 with Windows Media Center v.8.8.5 not waking up properly from Sleep (S3) at the correct time at 8:53 am for a scheduled recording scheduled to start @ 9:00am (and configured to begin recording 2 minutes before the show starts at 8:58 am). Recordings...

Hi

I am trying to do a first time install on a new win10 pro install. I downloaded the 8.8.5 version posted here and did an admin install on the installerBlue

I am running HdHomeRun Prime with a cable card and its updated to the latest firmware. I am able to view live TV using the HdHomeRun app...

Hi

Here in the UK

After upgrading to windows 11 from Windows 10 i tested WMC 8.85 with a old dual TV USB CARD 8-)

To my surprise WMC 8.85 works on Windows 11

the version of windows i used was from the uup dump site and compiled overnight. :o

and I used a driver updater called Driver Reviver...

Hi have been running WMC-V8.8.5 for a couple of weeks just fine, then today i have lost the ability to either set s future recording or to select instant recording , pressing the record button for either produces no response!
Any assistance greatly appreciated

Paul

Win10 64bit

Hello,

I just updated my windows 10 to v2004. I uninstalled WMC before doing the update, ran the update, installed WMC back in, and *almost* everything is working right...
WMC has no issues opening or playing live or recorded TV...
EPG123 runs without problems, and the guide is updating in WMC......

Hello

machine W10 former 8.1, tv with usb satreceiver,
first problem was: in the last few weeks programming with epg123 and searching dont work, also not manuall recording, watching works well
after uninstall/ new install W8.8.5 watching works and manuall programming works but searching for...

I have searched so apologize if I missed this.

Has anyone documented the detailed steps to take when allowing a win10/11 system with 8.8.5 installed to update?

Currently running on one PC with win7 and will eventually move to a different, newer, PC running win10/11 with 8.8.5 installed.

I plan...

Is there a way to move the Recorded TV folder to a network drive, i.e. that the recordings are saved on this? or can you include a network drive as a local drive in Windows 10?

Been running Windows 10 Enterprise with WMC 8.8.5 just fine.

I have never set up extenders at all, except for the very very early days of WMC and those were Xbox 360's.

I just decided to get an extender on eBay recently, Linksys DMA 2200, for another TV in the house and to my surprise it's not...

Normally back in the day when I was on windows 7 when I used WMC normally in the settings I could choose my display type and when I select my built in display and select widescreen any video I have that's not full screen on windows media player would randomly become full screen however now that I...

See around post 9184 on that page if your looking to use this on W10

I finally upgraded my living room HTPC to Windows 10 in order to play nicer with some of the newer games, but now I can't find where to get the latest version of WMC, which I believe is 8.8.5?

I've found a couple articles through internet searches with links to 8.8.4, but I can't figure out where...

Windows 10 Enterprise, WMC 8.8.5, 2x Hauppauge 950q USB Tuners and Hauppauge QuadHD USB3 tuner.

Everything is set up and working, but changing channels happens incredibly slow. Maybe a full minute, sixty seconds, before you hit channel up and the next channel is actually displayed. I am not sure...

Any developers out there want to take on the challenge of getting WMC to work with MadVR?
If it's even possible?

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madVR is a DirectShow video renderer used by hundreds of thousands of home theater enthusiasts around the world.
Designed as a no-compromise approach, madVR delivers the ultimate...

Windows 10 Enterprise, WMC 8.8.5
Hauppauge USB tuners 950, 850

So I've been using two 850 USB tuners for a good while now without issue, on previous WMC builds and previous windows versions. Recently I upgrade to Windows 10 and installed WMC 8.8.5. and going through the setup process with latest...

Hello please help!

I was working fine with V13, but then Microsoft came out with dire ZeroDay warnings so I stopped the update block and I ran Windows update. Now V13 is broken. I read enough to know that I need to move to V8.8.5.

Well, how do I do that??

1) How do I backup the old V13 set up so...

Before Windows 10 Will Have A UI Redesign Soon, I Needed A Fluent Theme For Windows Media Center To Make It Look Modern, And Colorful. After A Couple Of Tries Of Searching Fluent Theme For WMC On Bing, It Didn’t Work. Do I Think Media Center Studio Shut Down In 2016, Or No One Haven’t Made It? This...

If I upgrade to version 1903, Windows 10,, will I lose WMC.???

Thank u

Anyone know if updating to Win10 21H1 works with v8.8.5?

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Windows 10, with WMC 8.8.5

I have messed something up and recorded tv isn't playing. I am trying to reinstall WMC but the uninstaller.cmd just quits immediately and nothing happens.

I have installed WMC 8.8.5 on windows 10 pro 21h1 using a Hauppauge colossus 1 and then WMC pack for the colossus the scan finds the 9999 channels as usual epg123 populates the guide but when you click on a program in the guide you hear the bing but nothing else seems to happen it doesn't seem to...

Long time WMC user(since WinXP) and tgb browser. But I have not encountered this before.

My main Win7x64 HTPC has been acting flaky lately and I am trying to setup a replacement.

Replacement setup is: W10 21H1 x64 (fresh install), WMC 8.8.5, 2 HDHR OTA tuners and EPG123.

If I tune in using Win10...

(1.) When I run WMC in full-screen, I have full-screen picture, the lower bar with buttons in invisible and shows only when I need it, in transparent mode.

(2.) When I run WMC in window, I have picture with over and under black strips and the lower bar with buttons is still visible on the lower...

How do I check the version of Windows media center I have on my Win 10 PC? I know I had to fix something a ways back and I have both the v13 and 8.8.5 sets of install files on my PC but not sure if I upgraded to 8.8.5 to fix my issue.

is there an about page I can look at?

Hello, it has not directly to do with WMC (it works smoothly in 21H1, it surviced the update without any issues) but its something about my complete home theater setup.

I need a tool which shows me the HDMI version and it's capabilities attached to my HTPC. I need to know which HDMI version and...

Who does the work on WMC for windows 10? Is there a support or even a suggestion page? I will gladly donate if someone helps me get this running on 10, my 8 computer crashed. I have already bought schedules direct, tried media portal but it is crashy.

I changed from Windows 10 to Windows 7 and I saw that my games didn't work.So I tried to fix it and after a restart all my programmes wouldn't open,but it said to try open with WMC and now EVERY programme have that stupid icon and I can't even open them.How can I change everything back to normal?!

I have followed the guides to install Play ready.
sometimes it succeeds, then it gives the update not successful message. Do I even need it? I have an Aver media dual tuner, built for WMC. The install will not pick up the atsc tuner, it does pick up the analog tuner, but only the first 13...