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Weekend Project, Tuesday Update: Windows Media Center

By Nick Hodge | November 13, 2007

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Update from the Week­end Pro­ject.

Some more bits from AusPC Mar­ket arrived. We now have audio cable, cor­rect short VGA cable and a new dual chan­nel Haup­pauge PCI based Digital TV receiver. Oh, and I applied the thermal grease to the top of the CPU.

A few little cables for internal wir­ing ease, and the machine is rock­ing. Even the blue blinken­lights work.

TV Cat is happy.

Topics: windowsmediacenter | 7 Comments »

7 Responses to “Weekend Project, Tuesday Update: Windows Media Center”

  1. mike seyfang Says:
    November 14th, 2007 at 9:00 am

    Uncle Nick — does that fancy haup­pauge card thingy doover do HD ?

  2. Nick Hodge Says:
    November 14th, 2007 at 10:19 am

    Just get­ting a blue screen and audio only on HD sta­tions. The soft­ware says “does not come with MPEG decoder”

    More research needed to determ­ine what I need to add/change to get HD sta­tions working.

  3. Phillip Molly Malone Says:
    November 14th, 2007 at 2:54 pm

    I got one of their cards and it does all of the formats (ana­log, digital, HD and even Input). In fact was play­ing PES 6 soc­cer on my Play­sta­tion through it last night (must record some of it one day just for kicks).

    I use Media Cen­ter with it. Nick do you know if Media Cen­ter does line in? I use the Haup­pauge soft­ware at present!
    Molly

  4. Nick Hodge Says:
    November 14th, 2007 at 8:38 pm

    Mike Sey­fang

    Found my HD issue: it seems that the screen needs to be res­ized (alt-enter) when on the channel.

    http://www.xpmediacentre.com.au/community/vista-media-center-software/24369-green-screen-death.html

    Also, this Know­ledge Base:

    http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;943195&sd=rss&spid=11734

    Work­ing like a treat. Record­ing and everything.

    Next step: EPG

    Nick

  5. Phillip Molly Malone Says:
    November 14th, 2007 at 8:49 pm

    Hey Nick,
    I com­men­ted on your other post about EPG: http://www.nickhodge.com/blog/archives/2405#comment-51919
    Molly

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