For over a year now, I’ve had a Wired Home Network using the already run RG-6 coax, thanks to MoCA and Actiontec MI424WR routers configured as MoCA bridges.  HD Movies and TV shows stream from 7MC to the extenders throughout the house with ease.  Honestly, the only issue is when channel flipping from Media Center [...]

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Using VideoReDo TV Suite 3.x, I had to use WTVConverter to convert the .wtv recordings to .dvr-ms prior to using VideoRedo to edit out the commercials. Since last summer, I’ve been using VideoReDo TV Suite with H.264 4.x, which is able to open, edit (removing commercials), and save TV shows & movies as .dvr-ms files [...]

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Over at themissingremote.com, this video containing an awesome demo of a Blu Ray playback in 7MC was just posted. The demo shows, in 7MC, the MyMovies 3 gorgeous interface displaying a Blu Ray collection stored on WHS, and playing a Blu Ray, which with the power of Total Media Theater 5 (TMT5), plays seamlessly (full [...]

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As apart of my house-wide Media Center solution, PlayOn continues to provide the internet audio/video content like Hulu, Netflix, Pandora, etc.  Unfortunately though, when upgrading to a newer version of PlayOn, I always get an error on my Extenders when attempting to retrieve content: “The PlayOn Virtual Audio Device is configured as default”.  The fix: [...]

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I know this technically isn’t Media Center or Windows Home Server related, but still thought I’d share these tech tips that helped me out big time… Recently added a new Windows XP PC to my arsenal of existing Windows 7 PCs (7MC, Office PC, 2 Laptops) and WHS.  This new XP PC is exclusively used [...]

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