The best way to get familiar with the WMC project is to go to page 1, and read everything. I believe V11 was the first to do DRM. Abbodi wrote V12 to fix some security problems in V11. T-S's V8.8.1 is the most recent. i.e (includes the most fixes). Go to page one and click on the V8.8.1 link...
If you have Korean Win10, you likely will get Korean WMC You can go in to WMC/Settings/TV/Language and chose the language of the audio
Thank you very much for all the info, @crash2009! But I'd still like to know...v8.8.1 by T-S had a BLUEInstall.bat and a GREENInstall.bat. Could you please tell me how these are different?
V8.8.1 and V12 contain the same WMC version, but V8.8.1 includes some additional patches to make it work with remote desktop protocol and XBox extenders (check the first post). V8.8.1 installer is more reliable. Some people encountered some difficulties and error messages when using v12. But V8.8.1 only exists in x64 version.
Tried v12, didn't work. tried v10, didn't work, tried v3 which did work but cant find tuner on AVerMedia Hybrid H/W MPEG Card, M115S (DVBT/NTSC/PAL/SECAM). Latest driver is 2007 and this tuner works with Sichbo which identifies it as Avermedia BDA DVBT tuner. Any suggestion for type of USB tuner which will work with WMC?
Firstly may I thank everyone involved in getting WMC to work on Windows 10....I've been a WMC user for well over a decade, and my entire family just take our home theatre PC (and Logitech Harmony) for granted these days. I've upgraded it a few times, but ran into trouble a couple of years ago on Windows 7....for some reason SP1 on Win 7 kept failing...I surfed for weeks, probably even months, various websites offering solutions such as system readiness tools, multiple sfc /scannow attempts and registry hacks. In the end I gave up and just stuck with Win 7, using the HTPC for only WMC to avoid any issues with malware coming from websites, email and the like. Until recently...I'm in Melbourne, Australia and I have a quad tuner DVB-T card (from digitalnow) that I bought in late 2010, and it's been working perfectly with WMC...but a couple of months back my TV reception started to get flaky, only on the WMC. If I plug the antenna into the TV directly there's no issues with quality, nor are there on the TV in the bedroom which is also directly cabled into the roof antenna. But on WMC there's lots of blocky artefacts and tearing going on. It's worse on some channels (such as the ABC ones) than others, so I assume it's related to the cards ability to pick up enough signal strength. I've even tried taking my signal amplifier and splitter out of the loop and going direct from antenna to WMC but it's still crud. I suspect the PCIe tuner card is getting old...I've removed and replaced it a few times but it makes no difference. Anyway, I started to search up for replacements and actually tripped over the how to geek article on getting WMC running on Win 10, that lead me to this thread. I'm a Windows Insider member so I finally pulled the trigger yesterday and installed Win 10 on my HTPC, and then installed WMC. It's working great, but of course my TV reception is still poor, so I'm guessing it's time for a replacement DVB-T card, unless anyone has another suggestion? If I do replace the card I'll probably settle for the dual tuner "Vista View" one from DigitalNow (I can't post links as i'm a n00b here), given we watch a lot less free to air TV these days with all the digital content around compared to back in 2010. Anyway, cheers again to everyone involved, if you have any suggestions for fixing my dodgy HTPC reception please let me know.
I tried this again tonight and it worked. Maybe the guide support was not up last time. I guess if it doesn't work to wait a day or two and try again. Thanks to everyone contributing to this project.
Is there a wiki or database that shows which updates and cumulative updates to avoid? I want to give this a shot once I can find a copy of LTSB 2015
As I dont get here much any more, Has there been any progress getting playready working in the newer builds so a Ceton cablecard tuner would work, or are we in the same boat ?
Well after finally getting a copy of LTSB 2015 and installing everything, my graphics card fails on me and apparently the onboard Intel chip wasn't up to par for digital cable according to WMC. So my 1050 GTX card came in today I try to install it but these nvidia cards require 1511 or higher.....FML
just an update...installed 1511.10586.318 and everything is working fine so far. Installed on a Ceton 6Eth and WMC sees all 6 tuners with the help of TunerSalad. Thank You @ricktendo64 and @T-S and whoever else was involved in creating this and helping out on this thread! Also thanks for mentioning WUMT, that tool seems like it will be very helpful
I am also from Melbourne Australia. I have same problem with recent picture tearing and blocking. It's frustratingly inconsistent. Occurs with Win8.1 Pro system with USB tuners. Occurs on current model Intel NUC but is very infrequent with an older Shuttle v3. Both systems have SSDs. Have not identified a pattern yet. I don't think it's TV signal related (too much or too little or FM interference) because I've done a lot of work with my antenna, cabling, F connectors, etc. I'm beginning to suspect video drivers or CPU (i3) that can't deal with data rates. I'd like to communicate separately.
I'm not sure why no one else has commented on this or if I somehow got the update early, but "2017-07 Cumulative Update for Windows 10 Version 1703 for x64-based Systems (KB4025342) OS Build 15063.483" will break media center. If you try to watch any channel it will lag for 3 seconds then tell you "The PlayReady update was incomplete." If you have shows set to record on a schedule you will get a Tuner Error notification at the scheduled time. The last show my PC recorded was 7/10/2017 at 11PM. On 7/11/2017 at 3AM the update was installed. Nothings worked since. The good news is that in the Settings --> Updates --> Advanced options they added a new Windows Update branch "Current Branch for Business" and give you options to defer feature updates for up to 365 days and security updates for up to 30 days. So if this came in an earlier update and those options are already present, here's a heads up to configure those settings. So far I've tried reinstalling drivers/etc. but have not had any luck Also the IPs that are listed everywhere for data.tvdownload.microsoft.com are bad. I've tried: Code: 2.16.216.176 cdn.epg.tvdownload.microsoft.com #Works #72.246.56.59 cdn.epg.tvdownload.microsoft.com #Works 65.55.186.113 data.tvdownload.microsoft.com #Bad #65.55.186.115 data.tvdownload.microsoft.com #Bad #65.55.5.170 data.tvdownload.microsoft.com #Bad #65.55.5.173 data.tvdownload.microsoft.com #Bad UPDATE: So TimeWarner apparently converted to fully encrypted digital cable the same day my computer updated. These assholes even encrypted the basic channels. I get better service with an Antenna. Now I have to get a cablecard which has basically no support anymore.