Hello All, I'm new here but possibly this is an easy one? I have a Win 7/64 setup that I use as a CD jukebox with WMC. I love it and wanted to make another for some travel use. I bought a Dell laptop and put a 7/64 image on it and installed my WAV files and to my dismay MS stopped giving album art for it just a few weeks before. After some consideration I updated it to 10/64 and then the album art appeared in WMPlayer. I have done everything I can see mentioned here (I'm not a programmer) but I still have an issue. WMC starts fine and if I run a slide show of images it works fine. If I load the Music section it starts to work and the art even shows up but I then get a "Windows Media Center Has Stopped Working" pop-up and it shuts down. Any thoughts?
Im running winver 1903 18632.295 which was updated from 1809 im using 8.8.3, i have manually updated the dll's and may have some other tweeks from earlier versions like fix thumbnails, ehtray and systray in the startup leftover from the previous windows ver. I had the same problem and I don't like having artwork disabled as it doesn't download movie info. Try installing the latest ver of ModernMedia.UI+.Setup.1.1.3 you can uninstall it afterwards
@Bigal, I don't understand. Are you saying that 8.8.3 doesn't crash when you have download artwork enabled but 8.8.4 does? I've had this problem on every version of WMC since Windows 10 1709.
I thought i was clear in my post, I have edited it, hope its clearer. i haven't tried 8.8.4 because 8.8.3 works for me Let me know if you want more info, like file versions ect, be specific on exactly what you want
Hi all, as a long time media centre user the last windows update was the last straw... I thought I'd share that after testing alternatives media portal was the way forward it's simple enough that non tech users can use it. Thought I'd share it as my last post on here before signing off to wmc
I tried not running in full screen and also tried jcf launcher. It seemed to make the problem worse. Anyone else having this issue? It's strange it's only happening on 2 HD channels out of 5.
I assume you have tried all the workarounds - upgrading/downgrading graphics driver, changing high dpi settings, disabling game mode, focus assist, full screen optimisation, enabling compatibility modes, copying ehome to different folder? None of these work for me on the one PC that has problems but other people say they do.
Yeah, having re-enabled insider updates, my testbed went to 18963 and then to 18970.1001 and it is exactly the same. Worrying because read somewhere that 18363 is the next RTM so I guess it is time to lock down all the other PCs!
@Gareth North, It is hard to tell whether you don't need EncDec in system32 because DVBLink doesn't use it or because Kevin's external manifest means that it uses the one in ehome. In either case, the registry entry wouldn't be needed. As far as CPFilters goes, I don't really know what to make of that because I believe that DVBLink predates CPFilters so it shouldn't care whether it exists or not. In any case, doesn't it replace the functionality of encdec anyway. I may be wrong but it seems to me that calls to a DLL will use the one in the same folder as the executable first and if that doesn't work, it will use the one in system32. When I was creating V13, I tried putting older DLLs in the ehome folder and saw both DLLS being loaded by ehshell at the same time. Unfortunately, it wasn't enough to resolve the issues. I would have liked to have done more research into this but there were other things I needed to deal with and my trial period has ended now. I wanted to try V13 or 8.8.1 just swapping out MSVidCtl in system32 for the one in my utilities.
Sure. Using the registry editor, navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Media Center\MediaFolders (it won't work with HKLM). There, create a new string entry (REG_SZ) named HomeMediaSharing containing the absolute UNC path of the share containing the TV programs. You can specify multiple shares by separating the paths with a semicolon. For instance: \\MACHINE1\Recorded TV;\\MACHINE2\Recorded TV
Your screenshot seems to indicate you're looking at the wrong place. TV recordings found via HomeMediaSharing are not added to the main list, but can be accessed via the "shared" tab, that will list the machine names corresponding to the configured UNC paths. Give WMC some time to scan your remote share (it mostly depends on how many programs you have, since everything is processed serially).
Hi, I upgaded to win10 1903 last weekend. I installed wmc 8.8.4. everything worked fine, but I had to setup my tvtuner from scratch. The backuprestore.bat did something, but the tuners were not found by wmc. Another problem was, that the indexing service was not running at first, so I could not program any recordings using keywords. But starting the service did the trick. Now there is only one problem left: wmc is not recording anything. The time passes and when I come home nothing happened. The rec-task just vanished and there is nothing In the history of the recs. What could be the problem? Is there still a service-task missing?