Please excuse me if I am posting in the wrong place. I have just upgraded from Windows 7 to Windows 10 but still really need WMC. Search engines send me to your forum to downloaded a free unofficial version of WMC but all I can see is the forum and not the download itself. It would be very helpful if someone could post the link to the download page for the 32 bit version or else suggest what I should do next. Thank you
I'm not sure why you are telling me this. I am not the one having problems. I don't need or want codecs because my PC does everything I need without them.
Hi Matt, I had the same behavior with Win10 1809 and 1903. So I installed last sunday the lastest build 18865.1000 from the insider channel. After that, I've changed the Media Player settings to get a completed TV setup and also the msvidctl.dll in system32 to the version from the MCE-Installation. Now the WMC works fine, also in combination with the MST Tool. But I must uncheck the WOL setting on my network adapter. Greets Marco
I am still hoping that someone will tell me where to find a 32 bit version of WMC so that I can join in as well Thanks Jonathan
Looking at the Global Assembly Cache on Windows 10 1903 last night, I noticed that all of the native images installed by 8.8.3 that would normally be in their own folders under \windows\assembly are in \windows\assembly\temp and most of the images that would normally be in \windows\microsoft.net framework and assembly folders are completely missing. Wonder if something has changed with ngen or dot net framework that is preventing them being installed properly. I was going to enable some logging on the installer or try manually installing some to see what happens but realised it was gone midnight and I am away from home ATM. Update: They all seem to have appeared tonight. 24 hours later. What the ????
Hi, I installed MSMG's WMC v1.0.324.0 package on a clean windows 10. I can't seem to figure out how to get it to download the live tv schedule - during setup it just waits there forever. I am familiar with the 'workarounds' document saying to add certain entries to etc/hosts, however that doesn't seem to work. I recall having this issue before even with the old v12 package, sadly I don't remember how I fixed it back then. I installed Wireshark to try and spot any obvious problem in the network traffic, but there aren't any DNS lookups during the entire process. During the download step, it connects to some webserver, does a short exchange and disconnects. What's even more confusing... I installed 8.8.2 a month ago, and before it destroyed the OS with that unrecoverable bluescreen loop, I noticed that the initial configuration process included a successful and very fast download of the tv guide. And it worked right out of the box, no dns tampering needed. I have no idea why that one worked. If there are no other options, I will try installing it again to see if I can reproduce it.
@ultramage You might just have hit a point where the MS servers aren't working - again. After years of frustration, I gave up on their TV guide for the sake of my sanity and have used EPG123 for most PCs since. The ones that do get the guide from MS aren't working at the moment.
That's actually not true - I just installed 8.8.2 and it always succeeds quickly... I wonder. I'm in central europe, and the thread hosting 8.8.2 is french. Is it possible that the developer of that package is french (also europe) and has included some kind of unnoticed tweak to make WMC run correctly in this region? On the network, I see UA "Windows-Media-Player/12.0.17763.475" resolve "redir.metaservices.microsoft_com" (104.83.5.40) and query "/redir/allservices/?sv=5&locale=41b&geoid=8f&version=12.0.17763.194&userlocale=41b" (gets 302 redirect) near the start of the tv setup wizard. I then see a dns lookup for "www_microsoft_com" and a query for "/". It gets a 302 redirect to https. Around 140kB of data is downloaded. I then see a dns lookup for "data.tvdownload.microsoft_com" (65.55.186.115) and the download proceeds. --- Comparing then to the new package, I get the same metaservices lookup, shortly followed by a "watson.telemetry.microsoft_com" lookup and a short data exchange. After I complete the initial sequence, there's another watson telemetry report. Once I enter my area code and get the download progress bar, there's one more watson report, and it stalls.So it doesn't even sem to attempt to download anything, or even to contact the download servers. The watson thing makes me think that some component is silently crashing or erroring out.
I've got a mixture of 1803, 1809 & 1903. I'm running a mixture of v13 (homebrew non dism installer version of v12), v8.8.2 & v8.8.3. I have one pc with dvb-s2 on Hotbird 13, Astra 19.2 and Astra 28.2. The others are on dvb-t2 or dvb-t. Every pc (including the ones with epg123) collect epg data from microsoft and currently not one of them is downloading data from them due to errors. All I can say is if it works at all for you then you are very lucky.
Oh dear. That's not a good sign. But I just want to say... today I juggled 8.8.2 and MSMG's pack based on 8.8.2 three times each in the span of 30 minutes while I was doing the abovementioned tests. Both of them were giving consistent behavior. So I assume this is not a server availability issue, but some kind of internal configuration problem that MSMG introduced / uncovered. What is the timeout on that download step during the initial setup? Because you're mentioning errors, while in my case I always had to cancel out of that screen after a long wait. So our two issues might be unrelated.
I have a confession to make: My memory must be defective because I was positive that I was successfully running V12 on 1803 with the old version MSVidCtl in ehome and the new version in system32 using my app paths but try as I may, I can't get it to run that way now. So, my claim is unfounded and it looks like it was actually 8.8.2 where it started working like that. Obviously, this is due to the excellent work that @Kévin Chalet did with his modifications. However, the app paths DO make a difference for certain aspects of how Media Center works, most notable the ability to change and test the sound settings in the way I described. It also allows me to run WMC full screen without any problems on some of my PCs.
i don't understand why Microsoft is purposely trying to sabotage WMC from running on Win10. Fine they wanted to abandon it and not offer it. Then someone figures a way to install it and they patch the anniversary edition to break it WHY. Are you trying to piss off your loyal customers? I heard a rumor they were paid off by cable companies to do it and i didn't want to believe it but now i;m starting to. I will find out i guess if someone figures a workaround and they patch again.
I installed 8.8.1 on my newly upgraded version 1903 and whilst it seemed to install correctly, trying to start live TV gave the unhelpful message: "All TV tuners are currently in use. To change the channel, select the program or recording that you want to stop." I haven't tried 8.8.2 or 8.8.3. I would be pleased to hear from anyone who has managed to get WMC installed and working on WIn10_1903.
I have 8.8.3 running on 1903 and it works just as it did in 1809 except that I had to roll back MSVidCtl and CPFilters in system32.
Anyone who has been following my ongoing investigations into running WMC with App Paths may be interested to know that my claim wasn’t entirely false after all: Running V12 using app paths with old DLLs in ehome and new DLLs in system32 DID work on 1803 for some recorded TV shows. Just not all of them. For that, I needed to roll back MSVidCtl in system32. I proved it by reverting and testing my Living Room PC to make sure I wasn’t going completely mad. No doubt there are some of you who think I am – I mean who would want to run V12 anyway? Well, I do, because I want to run WMC full screen in RDP for remote admin purposes. I know that you can’t play live or recorded video in a remote session and that extenders don’t work but I don’t need either of those things. I just don’t want to have to keep switching from windowed to full screen and back all the time because it is a PITA. I have built a V12/8.8 hybrid installer so that I can install it on 1809 and 1903 as well. I named it Version 13 because it has been a bit of a nightmare. Unfortunately, it currently needs all the workarounds that V12 needed - I still need to install EncDec and switch out MSVidCtl in system32 but it does everything I want and it installs and runs fine on every PC with every version of Windows build I have. There are several interesting things that came out of all of this. The properties on the shortcut ARE available again so I can set the required options to make it run full screen on all my PC without any other modification. No need for launcher or other hacks. I can also set both the PC and WMC to 5.1 surround and run the speaker test. This is important to me because other software I use needs windows sound to be set to 5.1 to work properly.
Just got it working. 8.8.2 on 1903 x64 I used 8.8.2 and initially it wouldn't playback anything (either no video or a crash referencing MSVidctl), but once I replaced MSVidctl.dll in \windows\system32 with the version in ehome using NSudo (a previously unnecessary step and NOT any other version - I had previously used the version from the 1709 CD) it all started working. I didn't need to touch either CPfilters nor do the previous encdec.dll restore with registry edit necessary for v12. Limited testing so far, but looks like I'm good.