I guess you are from UK given the "centre" spelling, so I'm curious to know if MS also "translated" the term "center" in British editions of windows...
For the record 10056 is affected too. Ehome related MUIs are in English inside the national language packs.
Yep, guilty as charged. MS got the spelling wrong in the beta, and never got round to correcting it. Strange thing is Windows 8.x search finds it with both spellings.
I checked 10041 (I never used it with WMC) and is affected too. Looks like the latest "publicly available" build with the correct MUIs is 10036. And yes the MUIs are included in the LP but they are en-US.
I don't think WMC has ever worked in en-GB. Even way back in XP, when you needed to download an update for the UK PAL version all the menus were still in en-US.
I'm sorry I read too fast. I tough you referred to the missing translation thing, not to my question about the centre spelling. Now is clear, sorry for the misunderstanding. Back to your reply, too bad I don't have handy any LPs in en-UK, other than the latest one from 10056, that guess is in en-US like the other ones I checked. Edit: I got the en-GB mui from 9926, the eh*.mui files are actually marked as en-GB. The string search done inside them returns 22 results for center and just five for centre, and none of the latter looks like a windows or a program title. So this should reply to my question, the en-GB ehome related MUIs are present (at least until 10036), like for any other major language, but looks like that the Media Center is still called Media Center.
OK, now you've got my OCD going. Gonna have to find those five centre's Nope, not in the About page. Sidenote: I saw on Paul Thurrott's website, his was testing WMC in order to 'refresh his memory of the product' I wonder if that means he's heard theres an update coming for WMC and is preparing for an article
Well... one of them is MyTVRecentRecordings I started to use it again, after years of mediaportal or mythtv, after I discovered dvblink, which is a great piece of SW
Oh Yeah, its great. Used to use DVBLink with Media Browser. I had 1x dual DVB-T2 1x DVB-S and 2x DVB-C tuners in my Home Server with DVBLink feeding virtual tuners to the families PC's and laptops, and Media Browser dealing with the Metadata and feeding XBMC, Xbox360's and mobiles with its plugins. Only stopped using it because Cable company changed their Boxes/Encryption and with most OTA channels are now online. Its easier to save bookmarks than configure virtual tuners. Altho, I might kick it in again and try it on a tablet.
Strangely enough - Win Next Pre-Release ProfessionalWMC - is the only editon missing from existing SKU's that have been transfered... makes me think they have no plans providing a Windows 10 edition.
I don't watch any encrypted channel, so that's not an issue for me. I stream my TV and the few channels I'm used to watch around my house on practically any device. And I can do this with any mediacenter like SW. Now while practically anything is better than WMC on the server side, I dislike most of them on the client side, as I'm used to use a mouse and not a remote control to control the TV functions. In that aspect WMC is still unmatched, its UI is simple, fast (on nowadays PCs) and well usable either via RC or Mouse and even on touch devices. To use WMC just on the server side "ServerWMC" is a great alternative to DvbLink.
I'm afraid you are right. Likely MS started to look at WMC like Apple looks to the FM radio function on iphones. Any content available for free, like the unencrypted TV channels and the FM radio, can compromise the user attitude to pay for something coming from internet. This work surely for the dumb apple users, I'm not sure this will apply so well to the win users.
Unfortunately, I think you guys are right and WMC is dead, but I'm gonna keep hoping until the last nail is in the coffin. I love to 'cut the cable' no encrypted channels wouldn't worry me. Its the rest of the family lynching me with the cut end of that cable I've got to worry about ServerWMC sounds interesting, I'm gonna have to have a play with that, thanks mate.
Well, after all, nowadays RAM is cheap, PCs ar powerful, and virtual machines are widespread and easy to setup, even in the worst scenario a VM inside a recent OS will do the trick. You are welcome I haven't tried by myself but I believe it can be used even on a system configured for Dvblink, to open even more sharing choices. Something is changed since the days of the great but unlucky Showshifter, or the very first XP MCE that required literally days of work spent to get it somewhat working.
LOL, you should seen the hacks we had over here, trying to get XP MCE (2004) to work with PAL TV cards, Hauppauge made a lot of money selling beta PAL TV cards to non-beta testers. Not mention the convoluted ways of piping EU EPG's into the system and home made IR blasters for EU STB's A lot of time and effort was spent, but it was a lot of fun too
Yes, very fun. Especially trying to get working some cheap analog Hauppauge/Lifeview/whatever cards w/o the MPEG HW decoder...
Off-topic - is there an official forum, email, or otherwise, on which to report bugs or suggestions? On topic - I found that with when I start Windows Media center, it subsequently kills my network adapters. Reboot fixes. version 10056. Clean install on a Dell laptop. One last topic - How would I - legitimately - activate Windows 10 w/WMC tech preview? Thanks much, Mike \/
Dell desktop too here (e4300) no problem at all with network connections Not sure if a proper win 8wmc key will activate it. I own two of them but I haven't tried, I activated it with ms toolkit and the provided generic key.