All Posts Tagged With: "MCE"

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My Movies 2 - Watch DVDs In Windows Media Center

Vista Media Center doesn’t allow you to watch DVDs on your hard drive. There is a way to hack the registry so that a DVD Library is added to Vista Media Center, but only a list of movies is displayed with no thumbnails or data like genres, movie ratings, actor bios etc.
I discovered My [...]

 7Jan2008 | Everton | 9 comments | Continued
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Leaving iTunes Behind - Moving To MediaMonkey And Lossless Music

I love it when I read a post that makes me decide to do something totally differently. CyberNetNews are doing a series of daily giveaways of useful software, and yesterday they were giving away three copies of MediaMonkey Gold the reknowned music player.

I don’t know what possessed me to read the story, as I [...]

 5Dec2007 | Everton | 17 comments | Continued
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Linux MCE Misses The Point

In my last job I was labelled a ‘Wannabe Techie’ by the network and systems guys as I was always asking for advice on modding Xboxs, using newsgroups, managing servers, building a PC etc. However, in the past I’ve drawn the line at learning about Linux as I decided in my head that [...]

 23Mar2007 | Everton | 24 comments | Continued
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What Are My Options For A HD Media Center?

My regular readers know that I love my modded Xboxs running XBMC. However, the problem I’m facing currently is that my poor old Xboxs don’t have enough power to handle HD content.
I bought a Xbox 360 in 2005 for two reasons, to play Halo 3 and to get a new HD media centre.  [...]

 16Mar2007 | Everton | 4 comments | Continued