All Posts Tagged With: "media center"
Guide To The Best Windows Codecs
Until I started having to cope with High def file formats like h.264 and mkv I was perfectly happy installing one of the many codec packs to allow me to play my media files. The problem however with the latest file formats, is that they can be very CPU intensive, so if you don’t [...]
4May2008 | Everton | 3 comments | Continued
Start Vista Media Center In Media Only Mode
Windows Vista Media Center is a very good media center, and best of all it’s free. One nice feature within Windows Vista MCE is the media-only mode which gets rid of the windows minimise/close buttons in the top right so that your full screen is dedicated to your media.
Unfortunately there isn’t an option within [...]
Building A Media Center PC
It’s been a while since I’ve written a post and I haven’t even had the time to keep up with my feeds. I did however find the time over the weekend to build a new Media Center PC. I managed to put the itself PC together fairly quickly, without too many cuts on [...]
9Apr2008 | Everton | 4 comments | Continued
New PC And Media Center Spec
I pulled forward yesterday building a new media center, because my main PC died. I’m moving into a new flat soon with a bigger ‘office’ that I’m also going to use a games room, hence the need for a second media center PC to go with my current media center PC in the front room.
24Mar2008 | Everton | 3 comments | Continued
XBMC Coming On OS X And Linux. Plus, I Need Advice With New PC Spec
I’m a big fan of XMBC, the great open source media center for Xboxs. But, I stopped using it over the last 12 months because my needs had out-stripped the capabilities of the Xbox, which can’t support native HD content. Because of this, I now use PCs running Windows Vista Media Center [...]
11Feb2008 | Everton | 1 comment | Continued
