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MCE Buddy to the Rescue!">MCE Buddy to the Rescue!
By Nick Hodge | June 23, 2008
There is a little addition to the Windows Media Center setup. It is a hidden gem that makes life so much easier.
In our home, we have a Windows Home Server. Thoughtfully named SERVER, it is small and sits quietly near the broadband connection.
After Media Center record TV shows on one PC, I generally like to store the results safely for later viewing.
The *.dvr-ms files created by Windows Media Center, especially on Digital TV transmissions, can be quite large.
So, to fix both of these issues I have installed MCEBuddy
A tool that quietly lives in the background of your PC, it watches the Recorded TV directory. When a show has completed recording, MCEBuddy compresses the show into something smaller (for instance: WMV or even MP4 for iPods!) and transfers automagically to our Windows Home Server.
I highly recommend this little utility.
Topics: technology, windowsmediacenter | 2 Comments »
June 24th, 2008 at 12:02 pm
That’s really neat to see, and in the advanced section there is a tonne of option for other formats. I’m most impressed. (Admittedly when I read the headline in the RSS I had thought of Clippy for some reason. My bad.)
August 10th, 2008 at 3:00 pm
I am using this program and it is a DREAM COME TRUE. After fiddling around with DRV2WMV and others (DV toolbox, etc) this thing saved my life (well you know what i mean). Its great.