Hello. What is the best download mirror for MC v.11? I have clicked on the download links for several and they either lead to malware threat detection notification from avast or to photos of women's anatomy.
Ok, will try that. It was very strange, I had it on my taskbar and the next thing I know is it's gone. Maybe MS is trying to kill this project, who knows?
I think 10.0.10536.36 is an Insider preview release from mid-December. Personally I'm setting my WMC machines to defer mainstream updates rather than getting normal updates, let alone Insider preview.
If you dislike the women's anatomy follow the following lines. #A Use a decent browser (vivaldi, otter, opera...) and never use a browser for flocks (chrome, explorer, edge...) #B Use a decent ad blocker extension (uBlock, for example) #C Datafileost is simply and safe, you have just to uncheck "use our download manager..." #D no matter the mirror or the browser you use. A dedicated program like Jdownloader, is surely the best way to download from any filelocker, no mattter if we talk about mega, datafilehost or whatever.
Apparently, WMC was dead and buried years ago, I doubt M$ would take an interest in the resurrection. After all, WMC users are almost extinct.
Hello, All! Firstly, let me thank MDL for the help its community has provided me over the years. I am trying to install WMC in 10 Pro using the MDL links and procedures, but am having trouble with the "TestRights.cmd" file as follows: C:\Windows\system32>cd /d "%~dp0" The system cannot find the path specified. How do I fix or get around this? 73 DE N4RPS Rob
I usually use win10 file explorer and go to wmc64 folder. Going in through Windows first also gives me the correct path for the second step. C:\Win10Project\WMC\WMC_v10\WMC64\installer While you are in there have a look at Readme.txt and Workaround.txt (you might need some of the suggestions contained in those two files) right click testrights and run as administrator If you prefer to use dos, and your folder structure is named the same as mine, cd C:\Win10Project\WMC\WMC_v11\WMC64\TestRights
Any progress on a cleaner installation package based on edechamps findings? Has anyone performed the installation on a fresh build of Windows 10 in the US and confirmed DRM working (due to edechamps mentioning some Play Ready issues)? Thanks for all the effort and communication everyone!
Hello! Thanks for the help. With your pointing me in the right direction, WMC is now installed, but it won't pull in an EPG. I wish it'd use the OTA EPG, so at least I'd have SOMETHING in the way of listings. My WMC on 8.1, with the info in the Workaround file, CAN pull in data now. As they say, half a loaf... I dual-boot 8.1 and 10, so the 8.1 WMC is on the same machine. Can one transfer ITS EPG to the 10 install from 8.1? 73 DE N4RPS Rob
A great thanks to all for this! Tried Kodi and others, but just want a simple MCE with Emby. Only thing i can't find is how to start MCE at boot. The setting is missing in the menus. Anyone got an idea?
Hey Crash, some cool findings from yourself in this thread by the way. I was kind of ready to move forward with WMC_v11, but edechamps made a significant discovery with scheduling tasks and closing a bit of security hole with network services. It would seem to me that a v12 could be easily put together from his work that would clean up the installer and set permissions correctly.
Dism package if installed successfully, PlayReady won't be useable and WMC will crash upon installing or using it, due some registry permssions: Code: Description: The process was terminated due to an unhandled exception. Exception Info: System.UnauthorizedAccessException at Microsoft.Win32.RegistryKey.Win32Error(Int32, System.String) at Microsoft.Win32.RegistryKey.CreateSubKeyInternal(System.String, Microsoft.Win32.RegistryKeyPermissionCheck, System.Object, Microsoft.Win32.RegistryOptions) at Microsoft.Win32.RegistryKey.CreateSubKey(System.String, Microsoft.Win32.RegistryKeyPermissionCheck) at MediaCenter.FirstRun.PlayReadyInstallModule.NextPageAfterInstalled() at MediaCenter.FirstRun.FirstRunModuleEx.GoToNextPage() Exception Info: System.Reflection.TargetInvocationException at System.RuntimeMethodHandle.InvokeMethod(System.Object, System.Object[], System.Signature, Boolean) at System.Reflection.RuntimeMethodInfo.UnsafeInvokeInternal(System.Object, System.Object[], System.Object[]) at System.Delegate.DynamicInvokeImpl(System.Object[]) at Microsoft.MediaCenter.UI.DeferredCall.Dispatch() at Microsoft.MediaCenter.Queues.Dispatcher.MainLoop(Microsoft.MediaCenter.Queues.Queue) at Microsoft.MediaCenter.UI.UIDispatcher.MainLoop(Microsoft.MediaCenter.Queues.Queue, Microsoft.MediaCenter.UI.LoopCondition) at Microsoft.MediaCenter.UI.Application.Run() at ServiceBus.UIFramework.PageBasedUCPService.Run() at ServiceBus.UIFramework.UserControlPoint.Launch(System.String) Code: Description: The process was terminated due to an unhandled exception. Exception Info: System.UnauthorizedAccessException at Microsoft.Win32.RegistryKey.Win32Error(Int32, System.String) at Microsoft.Win32.RegistryKey.CreateSubKeyInternal(System.String, Microsoft.Win32.RegistryKeyPermissionCheck, System.Object, Microsoft.Win32.RegistryOptions) at Microsoft.Win32.RegistryKey.CreateSubKey(System.String, Microsoft.Win32.RegistryKeyPermissionCheck) at MediaCenter.FirstRun.PlayReadyInstallModule.get_IsInstalled() at MediaCenter.Options.SetupMediaCenterPage.NavigateTo(Navigate) at ServiceBus.UIFramework.XmlControl.DoNavigateTo(Navigate) at ServiceBus.UIFramework.PageBasedUCPService.DoNavigateNotifications(ServiceBus.UIFramework.Page, Navigate, NavNotify) at ServiceBus.UIFramework.PageBasedUCPService.LoadNewPageInternal(System.String, System.Type, System.Object, Boolean, Navigate, PageTransitionCompleteEvent, Boolean) at ServiceBus.UIFramework.PageBasedUCPService.LoadNewPage(System.String, System.Type, System.Object, PageTransitionCompleteEvent, Boolean, Boolean) at MediaCenter.Options.HRefListItem.OpenItem(Microsoft.MediaCenter.UI.Legacy.InputArgs) at ServiceBus.UIFramework.ListItem.OnMouseUpEvent(Microsoft.MediaCenter.UI.Legacy.MouseEventArgs) at Microsoft.MediaCenter.UI.Gadget.DispatchEvent(Microsoft.MediaCenter.UI.Gadget, EventDeliveryProc, Microsoft.MediaCenter.UI.Legacy.OurEventArgs, UInt32, UInt32 ByRef) at Microsoft.MediaCenter.UI.OldUiZone.DeliverInputDirectWorker(System.Object) at Microsoft.MediaCenter.UI.UiSession.DeliverInputWorker(Microsoft.MediaCenter.UI.Input.ICookedInputSite, Microsoft.MediaCenter.UI.Input.InputInfo, Microsoft.MediaCenter.UI.EventRouteStages) at Microsoft.MediaCenter.UI.UiSession.Microsoft.MediaCenter.UI.Input.IInputHost.DeliverInput(Microsoft.MediaCenter.UI.Input.ICookedInputSite, Microsoft.MediaCenter.UI.Input.InputInfo) at Microsoft.MediaCenter.Queues.Dispatcher.MainLoop(Microsoft.MediaCenter.Queues.Queue) at Microsoft.MediaCenter.UI.UIDispatcher.MainLoop(Microsoft.MediaCenter.Queues.Queue, Microsoft.MediaCenter.UI.LoopCondition) at Microsoft.MediaCenter.UI.Application.Run() at ServiceBus.UIFramework.PageBasedUCPService.Run() at ServiceBus.UIFramework.UserControlPoint.Launch(System.String) so manual adjustments of permissions still required as for scheduling tasks, i'm not sure how to solve the issue exactly, is't enough just to set the permissions using powershell? and does creating Media Center folder through cmd would give the same result as creating through task scheduler UI?
There are two ways to solve the task permission issue. The first way is to install v11 with the task XML file altered to set the correct permissions: forums.mydigitallife.net/threads/61061-DISCUSSION-Patch-WMC-to-run-on-Windows-10-final-amp-possible-alternatives/page296?p=1192012#post1192012 Another way is to prevent v11 from creating mcupdate_scheduler and StartRecording (which are supposed to be created on-the-fly by WMC anyway), and instead set proper permissions before installing through a registry hack (or through cleaner Task Scheduler API means, which I have not tested): forums.mydigitallife.net/threads/61061-DISCUSSION-Patch-WMC-to-run-on-Windows-10-final-amp-possible-alternatives/page300?p=1192271#post1192271 Personally, I prefer the second option because it's cleaner. It's cleaner because it's closer to what WMC does on a normal install.
Thanks the thing is, dism install failure is not restricted to that error (ERROR_ALREADY_EXISTS) and the real problem is, after a failure, dism package mostly can't be installed unless one do an offline install/uninstall to get rid of all sxs stuff
I set mine up by bring up run, type in shell:startup and copy your MCE desktop icon to here. Right click on your new icon, click properties, and change Run to Maximized. Click OK and you should be good. Each time you boot up MCE should start maximized.
Hi, Just wanted to say thanks to everyone that has contributed to this. I found a lot of my answers here, and I'm now fully up and running on my W10 machine. Also, having used HDHomerun View prior to WMC, I can comment that WMC uses significantly less CPU resources.