Windows Media Center

[anexcreed]

I run media center on my HTPC. it takes care of all my tv recording, music library, picture library, Netflix, Hulu, and my home video monitoring. Does anyone else use it? And if so for what?

[Adamz946]

Yeah i use media center on a HTPC i built up from some old parts in an SG02. I had a friend setup some of the movie stuff for me.

We used something called media center master which puts movies into their own folder and downloads covers/backdrops/info and so on.

Then use this fancy add-on called media browser, does look nice: http://www.mediabrowser.tv/

In future it will do more things like yours.

[jarreddean]

I used it for a very long time however lagging and errors were always a problem for me for HD content. I changed to XBMC which is really good and for multi room plex is good

[cafe]

no lol

I do not use anything that is already installed when you do a clean install

[Tigerbomb8]

I used it for a very long time however lagging and errors were always a problem for me for HD content. I changed to XBMC which is really good and for multi room plex is good

Plex is just XBMC with a new skin and some tweaks

[ajo518]

I have media pc's at all of the tv's that we use on a daily basis. They are all connected to a hp windows home server. The recorded tv is automatically stored on the server and streamed to whatever pc wants to watch it. This allows us to have small ssd's on our media pc's. Ssd's greatly improved the experience with media center. Movies are stored on a FreeNas server and they are streamed to the pc's as well. a good router and a wired connection are almost mandatory for this kind of setup. This setup has worked very well for us. In the future i hope to find a program that will allow me to have all of the tuners on one server and stream all of the content including live tv to the device. This would allow me to have something very small like an Intel nuc instead of a full desktop pc.

[anexcreed]

I have media pc's at all of the tv's that we use on a daily basis. They are all connected to a hp windows home server. The recorded tv is automatically stored on the server and streamed to whatever pc wants to watch it. This allows us to have small ssd's on our media pc's. Ssd's greatly improved the experience with media center. Movies are stored on a FreeNas server and they are streamed to the pc's as well. a good router and a wired connection are almost mandatory for this kind of setup. This setup has worked very well for us. In the future i hope to find a program that will allow me to have all of the tuners on one server and stream all of the content including live tv to the device. This would allow me to have something very small like an Intel nuc instead of a full desktop pc.

Lmao its called windows media center. You can already have all the tuners on one machine running windows media center, have live tv and recording tv and streaming to either tvs hooked up directly to the windows media center PC or to Xbox 360s or to extenders. Or yo other pcs. All data stored on one machine and it all working seamlessly on all other devices and the recorded content is available for your whole network so for someone like me with a vpn between two towns its pretty great.

[Blake]

I used it for a very long time however lagging and errors were always a problem for me for HD content. I changed to XBMC which is really good and for multi room plex is good

I also used to use WMC, but you shouldn't need a full build of an OS for an HTPC (unless it is also a gaming machine).

Also if you didn't get the free key for windows 8 pro with media centre, don't bother, the new one is the old one in windows 7.