[DISCUSSION] Patch WMC to run on Windows 10 final & possible alternatives

In Europe DVB-T2 is the standard for OTA digital television which use a narrower frequency and HEVC codec for transmission in order to have more channel on the same band (I'm no expert, that is what I know). It's the second iteration of DVB-T most country are using here.

 

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HEVC, that's the H.265. We are having a little trouble with H.264 over here. USA

Drm H.264 channel plays fine until the end of the movie, then it appears the CableCARD reauthorizes the next movie (guessing)

Then display driver failure display driver recovers next movie starts to play a little bit but it stutters, eventually the stuttering results in WMC error,,, files needed to display video are either not installed or not working.... restart WMC gets everything working again. So far the failure at the end of the movie has been unpredictable sometimes it'll Play movie after movie after movie all day long with no problem.

I ran the advanced logging in the Ceton diagnostics. After reviewing the files all I can see in there is my display driver has a problem.. further research suggest my display driver is having trouble with the new version of hdcp.

 

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I used V12 and don't have many problems with it although it has been suggested that v8.8.1 by T-S has a 'better' installer/de-installer.

Your experience is pretty much the same as mine. Since updates to my system, I sometimes get a Red Recording icon and sometimes not.

Unfortunately, there has been no new guide data in Europe since the 14th July. WMC says it has downloaded but it is downloading old data over and over. Things in North America seem to be a bit different.

I have three PCs running WMC - one with DVBS-2 and two with DVBT - and switched my Living Room PC over to using EPG Collector to pull guide data from the satellite last time the MS/BDS data stopped coming. While it still only gives 7 days, at least there is data for all of the UK channels.

A lot of people have switched to using EPG123 to populate their guide. There is a thread on The Green Button dedicated to this.

 

I have no problems with the red recording icon in X64 V12 MCE LTSB2016
Guide date has been fine in win7 MCE, 14 days from the internet, i supplement it with dvbguide for the missing channels, although that is OTA and is only 7 days.

I did try the suggestions in the workaround for guide data download problems, I pinged cdn.epg.tvdownload.microsoft.com and got a reply from 62.252.115.64: so i even tried adding 62.252.115.64 cdn.epg.tvdownload.microsoft.com to the end of the host file.
It still only got guide data from OTA. i got the usual MCE guide data errors

 

I haven't had any new data from MS on any of my PCs since the 14th July. Windows 7, Windows 10, terrestrial, Hotbird, Astra I, Astra II, nothing.

I know I'm not alone.

 

I just put my win7 MCE ssd bac in to check and it is 7 days epg ftom OTA... WTF, it did used to be 14 days from the internet.

 

I've given up all hope of ever getting MS/BDS data again (unfortunately).

 

If ever i have a problem with MCE i always revert back to an image with the OS the way i wanted and before MCE has even been opened, i also update it, so "installer/de-installer" doesn't apply.

I'm ready to commit and i'm about to install on my SSD and make an image before installing MCE, still dont know which version of MCE to use though.

 

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I need help with mine, I have tried multiple times to install, but when i run the installer as administrator, it just gives me this response from Command Prompt.

 

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@robocart9
Even though you're seeing two errors, error 0x800703f8 is equivalent to Win32 error 1016. There may be a problem with the registry which you need to resolve before re-attempting the installation so try researching the error 0x800703f8 / error 1016 and check the DISM and CBS logs for any further information.

If you need more help, stating your OS details and info from log files might be helpful.

 

What version of WMC are you using....
What is the complete file name?

Go to page 1 and get version 8.8.1

Uninstall with v8.8.1

Delete the 2 ehome folders

Then install v8.8.1

 

Can I patch WMC into any W10 edition, particularly into W10 Home Edition ?

 

@Angelone
I'm currently using V12.7 in Pro 32 bit version 1703 and previously ran it as Home in both version 1607 and 1703. My other OSs are all Pro 64 bit and are running V8.8.1. Update to 1703 before installing WMC because 1607>1703 will break it and you'll need to uninstall and re-install WMC as when updating to 1607 previously.

 

Thank you bootloop. I am off to buy W10 Home then, no need for Pro.

 

My WMC quit working on Windows 10 sometime in the last 6 months. I CAN NOT get it to start again. I have tried installing/uninstalling/reinstalling to get it to work again. V12 doesn't even install anymore I get the typical error that everyone else reports which is this:

0x800f0922

I was going to post a link showing steps I tried to fix this but this forum is blocking me from posting the link. !!!

I have tried all of this.

I have also checked for windows updates that may have ruined this but don't see any of them on my system.

I went back to V8.8.4_x64_b_T-S and this does install but doesn't run. I also notice that the services don't start after install and reboot, you have to manually set them to "automatic" start and start them. Also, i have "system" local log on for them.

So now when I try to start WMC i get a spinning wait cursor for about 4 seconds and then nothing.

I have a NVidia GeForce GT-710 I got recently and wondering if that is part of the problem.

Anything else I can try? I want my TV back on my computer.

Here's something else I just noticed in my application logs:
Application: ehshell.exe
Framework Version: v4.0.30319
Description: The process was terminated due to an unhandled exception.
Exception Info: System.InvalidOperationException
at MediaCenter.Store.SqlLite.SqlLiteErr.LogAndThrowException(Int32, System.String, System.Object[])
at MediaCenter.Store.SqlLite.ObjectStore.Open(System.String)
at MediaCenter.Store.SqlLite.ObjectStoreManager.Open(System.String, Boolean)
at Microsoft.MediaCenter.Store.ObjectStore.Open(System.String, System.String, System.String, System.Reflection.Assembly, Boolean)

Exception Info: System.InvalidOperationException
at Microsoft.MediaCenter.Store.ObjectStore.Open(System.String, System.String, System.String, System.Reflection.Assembly, Boolean)
at Microsoft.MediaCenter.Store.ObjectStore.Open(System.String, System.String, System.String, Boolean)
at Microsoft.MediaCenter.Store.ObjectStore.AddObjectStoreReference()
at Microsoft.MediaCenter.Store.ObjectStore.get_DefaultSingleton()
at ServiceBus.UIFramework.UserControlPoint.Launch(System.String)

Source: .NET Runtime
Event ID: 1026

 

No I was out of town for some time and did not mess with it. Sorry I have no solution to offer, but I will still update if I ever figure something out.