Tag Archives: MCE

Converting .wtv to .dvr-ms and Removing Adverts in Windows 7 Media Centre

Posted by dave on June 8, 2012 No comments

I recently upgraded from Vista ME to Windows 7 MCE and everything works well, except for Lifextender (which uses Comskip) which only works with the older .drv-ms file format and doesn’t support the newer .wtv format that Windows 7 records in. …

Read more »

DVB-T Signal Strength and MCE TV Tuners

Posted by dave on May 31, 2012 No comments

In my recent post, I talked about added multiple tuners to my Windows 7 Media Centre. I’ve since removed both the Cinergy 2400i DT cards and added in 2 x Hauppauge HVR-2200 dual tuner cards. The Cinergy ones worked ok, …

Read more »

Windows 7 Media Center & Multiple TV Tuners

Posted by dave on May 23, 2012 1 comment

I hadn’t planned on writing a post about this but after all the trouble I ran into, I figured it might help others. Ok, the story: I had Windows Vista running on a P4 3.0GHz 3.5GB RAM Dell PC, with …

Read more »

Linksys DMA2100 Freezing on Boot

Posted by dave on June 11, 2011 1 comment

One of my DMA2100’s just would not boot recently. It would turn on, and normally the blue light flashes exactly 20 times before it starts up, but for some reason it just constantly flashed, and as a result, no Family …

Read more »

Viewing ZoneMinder CCTV within Windows Media Center

Posted by dave on March 16, 2010 8 comments

I run ZoneMinder as my CCTV server, which works really well. It sits on a Ubuntu PC and quite happily monitors everything that’s going on, I’ll do a full write up on ZoneMinder some othertime. I can connect into the …

Read more »

Remove adverts from your MCE Recordings with LifeExtender

Posted by dave on March 16, 2010 No comments

Time is money right? Well, if it’s not money, its definitely valuable and I don’t have a lot of it spare I can tell you. Where am I going this this I can hear you saying, well, I’m referring to …

Read more »

Using multiple tuners in Vista Media Center (MCE)

Posted by dave on March 16, 2010 No comments

One of the limitations of Vista Media Centre is that officially it only supports 2 tuners. As I’ve got 5 DMA2100 extenders dotted around the house, only having 2 tuners is not really that practical. There are only 2 of …

Read more »

Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 P2V Conversion

Posted by dave on March 13, 2010 No comments

Right, so it’s under way. I got into the office this morning (yes, Saturday), disabled the network adaptor for the external mail connector, I also stopped the information store service and stopped OWA. Basically, I didn’t want anyone making any …

Read more »