So the slave w10 box decides to update itself to 1511 without so much as a slight warning seeing as it's set to defer upgrades and just goes ahead wanting to schedule a restart for some "updates", takes a suspiciously long time and I'm like, oh no, it's going to apply 1511 to itself and I want it to record stuff tomorrow morning and grrr... After the laptop was foolishly granted permission to update itself to 1511 by me a while ago and finding v12 was not installing on it I figured I'd hit the boards and see what others had done since then and the advice was to use v11. Fairly sure I'd used v8 before and found it didn't nicely pick up settings and recording schedules and so I didn't really want to repeat that (fix there was the use backup batch file on the other box and move them to the laptop thus allowing it to pick up EPG data that appears to be the achilles heel of every version before v12). So tracked down a v11 installer and it went down like a charm. Probably going to have trouble firing off recoding processes tomorrow like v8 did so prophylactically added the network service to the administrators group but looks like v11 gets the nod from here on.
Thank you for the feedback. - For the remote, I'll check around at the green button, but for now, my solution works, so no biggie. - For the event viewer errors, time will tell if these are consequential. Hopefully they are old tasks left behind, and they wont stop the new ones from working. I have a similar error on Microsoft antimalware, I think because with windows 10 it now use defender instead of the previous security essentials and old task for it may still be active. - Playready / codecs, I am tempted to wait until problem arise. When exactly would a problem show up if Playready is not installed. Will it be when attempting to playback recorded protected content? Thanks again
Cleanest combination of utilities for audio/video/subtitle formats in W10 MC Ok, may be someone can help clarify a few things. When I originally setup WMV 7 several years ago, it took me a while to get all the audio/ video / subtitle stuff to work. What I have installed right now (what I was using in W7) are AC3 filter (1.63b) DirectVOBSub 2.41.5626 both 32 and 64bits Haali media Splitter Local Subtitles for 64 bit WMP (I believe this was only for WMP not WMC) Now in W10, with the recently installed v12, I was having a problem with srt subtitles not showing on any format. EDIT: I found out about using the Codec Tweak tool to deactivate Media foundation on the formats (mp4 and Mkv in my case) and subtitles are back But can someone shed some light on what is the best/cleanest combination of utilities to use for W10 MC, in order to play all formats and load local srt subtitles (ideally without a codec pack). Can I get rid of some of the stuff above (no longer needed with W10 and v12 WMC) ?
PlayReady problems would show up if you were playing "DRM Protected" Live or Recorded content. Nice write-up BTW. I will definitely bookmark that one.
Thanks and happy you think the write up is of some use I am adding EDITS in the original post as I find necessary tweaks, so that it will BECOME one place for as many of the basic issues as possible.
It's great you took the spyware out of your codecs, I never recommended them to anyone when they had all the spyware in the installer even though they were the best codecs.
First warning has not reappeared yet Regarding mcupdate warning, I found out that there is also an error Failed to retrieve nettv (Error: PackageName is invalid.) But Looking at the details of the mcupdate execution, it loooks like everything works except that part. Doing some research I found people mentioning this is related to some discontinued service. So I booted on the windows 7 drive, and checked there, and sure enough, the same error is on the windows 7 installation. I don't know if there is a way to make WMC not check for that obsolete component (if indeed it is), but it looks like I should be able to ignore it.[/I]
Gareth, thanks for the great post. I'm working my way through it and can no longer find Mcx2Prov.zip, NTRights.zip and the tweaked install.bat files mentioned. Does anyone have links that are live?
Have you tried the search this thread feature? I can't post links yet but page 398 post 3978 has a quote from the first to get xbox extenders working (meluvalli) that has links and some other info
Windows 10 Media Center with Emby keeps locking up Hello I have installed the latest patch v12 to install media center in windows 10, I am using Emby and quite often Emby(Neo Theme, with Media player Classic as my external player) locks up after playing a movie Media player classic closes and goes back to Emby but when I click return or next\previous the system locks and only responds to a reboot, has anyone else experienced this if so is there a work around, thanks
WMC on Win10 Last week I updated my Win7 desktop to Win10. I installed WMC without difficulty. But I have a snafu in the setup which I haven't seen addressed anywhere. It sees the tuner card, but isn't showing a list of service providers. That means no guide data and only the ability to record manually, like with a vcr. I can watch live television from the limited list it downloaded (24 channels), and I can watch that which had been previously recorded. ======================================= Multiple scans later, I now have what are probably all of the channels I'll get, but still no mention of who my signal provider is, and no guide info. I'm sort of hoping that the issue at this point is with Rovi since I'm quite aware of the intermittent issues with them.
I finally got v12 to work after uninstalling v11 via v8 uninstaller prior to updating Windows to latest insider build. The update removes Media Center anyway at least versions <v12. After upgrade to W10 Ed Build 14352 ran the v12 installer as usual and it finally worked! Life is good Just ordered the Hauppauge XBox USB tuner for $40 slickdeal for another pc. Probably should just get HDHR
Whenever I open WMC by using my MCE Pilot(Videomate e800f) or Wmc try to update guide listings I have to confirm every time that I want to run it Because of WHQL pop-up aka "C:\Windows\eHome\EhTray.exe has no WHQL bla bla publisher unknown are u sure that u want to run it? it's extremely annoying coz I cant use my tuner smoothly.. What Can I do about it? (I did use test rights before install process)
I've got v12 working all good on a win10 PC but the recording of channels doesn't work properly, I've got a single satellite tuner and if i'm watching something and have a scheduled recording its meant to come up asking to change channels and then change and record, instead it thinks its recording it without changing channels and records the current playing channel... any ideas?