I had my part on it, but I think the biggest part of the credits are deserved to Graznok who patched the relevant files and Abbodi who gathered the needed files in a consistent way and made a great installer (better and way faster than the original MS one). But there are many others, including the well known Raphael Rivera who did the same in the XP era I think that w/o a cooperative job not a single developer was able to gather all the necessary info and knowledge to get this working. In short was a great result itself but was a great result because the way to reach it. A real international and friendly cooperation between many people, and against a stupid decision by a big corporation.
I agree most would say.."what a stupid decision to kill WMC" going forward in MS Windows OS..but in reality MS had no way to monetize the application (with ads) and probably was getting lots of heat from content providers over DRM credentials and the ability via Xbox to extend the protected content to a myriad of locations duty and ad free..from a purely business point of view it makes perfect sense to kill the product..I think MS would drop it from Win7 8 and 8.1 if they thought they could get away with it..just my $.02; I'm very surprised that they (MS) didn't employ some deeply buried registry and/or kernel code to stop what has been so sucessfully done here with WMC and Win 10..we all are indebted to those you mention above for shouldering the load!!
Not sure about what happens on single seat setups, nor about analog radio. I use DVBink on my WMC enabled Home server and, if I want, I can choose the digital radio (aired over DVB-T), then I can see it on client's WMC in the same list as TV channels. Practically as TV channel with no video (wmc shows a blue screen with the writing "digital audio service")
All good now. I must have been working too long and too late last night. I just installed the Windows DVD player and it now all works perfectly. My country is Australia. Again thanks to everyone involved in this project. I use WMC as my scheduled TV recorder and this feeds to tv sets in three other rooms via my nas and network and WMC is an essential part of my setup. Again many thanks.
There is no 3rd party codec that is going to play the CopyOnce channels. PlayReady in the US is prohibiting this. Anything done using 3rd party codecs will not be reproducible unless the under lying copy system is patched to allow it or its a fluke (ie; playing it in teamviewer). I am however, about to test copy channels installing this system on Windows 8.1. Keeping everything that should be in check. Will see what happens. Got a couple things to try. Will report back (for real this time Lol).
Right. All now good and everything is working as it should. I maust have been up too late before. Yep RTFM. Loaded Windows DVD and all is good. Thank you. Certainly did not want to load Shark with all its baggage.
Ok so I installed WMC on a barebones Windows 8.1 installation. I've been unable to play any TV. I imagine this is because the MPEG2 decoder is looking for the MediaCenter SKU. I used Product Policy Editor and enabled the SKU per your recommendation (even tho this is 8). This didn't help with the codec, still no playback of any TV. I think ultimately, to resolve the US codec issues, this is where diagnosing should start. To get codecs working on a barebone Windows 8 installation without any added LAV codecs (as those won't work with copy protection).
Great words T-S And indeed thanks to all the people who made this possible, you all did a great job. I'm glad that I can be of any assistance in this big and wonderful threat.
OK, I HAVE SUCCESS! I'm playing protected CopyOnce content on a US FiOS Provider. FX and FXX are playing. I took a Windows 8.1 Installation, activated it with a WMC Key. Removed WMC from Add/Remove, verified it was gone after reboot. Installed WMC via v8 here. Ran through TV Setup wizard, all went as expected. Copy content is playing. (I'm even getting that shortcut notification others mentioned that its an unknown provider when you run the media center .exe) SO shows we are surely using the patched version. So with this info, we know the System Files Modified message has nothing to do with our patched files. This is specifically for Windows 10. We have two hurdles to pass here, I think. 1. As far as I can see through my tests, unless you have WMC as an activated key (via slmgr -dlv), the built in Windows 8 codec will not work. (I haven't tried Windows DVD Player yet). 2. If we take the codecs from Windows 8 to Windows 10, then the WMC activation mentioned in #1 will apply to 10. So whatever way we can get it to work without an activated key is the "key". 3. The Policy Editor for EnableMediaCenterSku did not change the above. I verified it was set to 1, but still didn't allow Live TV to play. The above all assumes that the System Files Modified only is applying to the Codec. But we can now say its NOT the patched files. My next test when I have time will be to see if the Windows DVD Player will work on Windows 8 (according to Microsoft it will). And see if that allows the MPEG2 codec to work, and in turn allow the copy content. Not sure how it will help, I mean we do know that Windows 8 MPEG2 codecs vs Windows 10 MPEG2 codecs are very different in size (Win10 is smaller). Perhaps if it does, its not the MPEG2 codec that its detecting is different but merely something else? Could still all be related to PlayReady Runtime not working on Win10 as well... I wonder if the Windows 7 MPEG2 codecs would work on 10, as they wouldn't have the WMC Sku check. The question then would be, would PlayReady be backwards capable for codecs.
I had the same result but the RDP wrapper would not work for me so I had to modify termserv.dll ... Any ideas how to resolve the disconnection issue?
After a week of work, I had finally gotten another PVR to work, but it only recorded and played back programs. It did not allow for FF, RR, etc, etc. And required a paid subscription to a guide service. Was not stable & selecting programs to record was a gamble - missed many programs that were supposed to record but didn't. I downloaded this version of WMC last night and it installed easily and worked first time I opened it! (Guess following directions works.) Many, many thanks to everyone that made it possible to run WMC on Windows 10. So far this version of WMC has worked as it did on Windows XP, 7, 8 & 8.1. Again, many times over: thank you very much!
Today I have tested sleep time setting with a view Live-TV recordings. But unfortunately this is not working. After that I have tested it with the MCE Stanby Tool, but that’s also not working. Well no problem, we than have to let the PC running the time there are recordings planed………… Tomorrow I will test all settings with Cable-TV but I’m quit sure this will work too in The Netherlands because Satellite is completely working now.
Is it possible to get what features are working and which features aren't put on the OP? It would be really helpful. Do media center extenders work yet?
Yep, for those in Australia, it works a treat. Just install it with either Windows DVD player and/or Shark Codec pack and your right to go.
Check if your scheduled tasks are correctly present and if your network service is added to the administrator group. Then you can check for wakeup events with powercfg -waketimers