Media Centre Extender

oafc0000 · 3 May 2006 at 12:02

Hi All

I now have a nice new Media Centre working perfectly after a few issues

(AMD 3200+, two tuner cards, 1 gig ram)

I also have my main computer which also has the media centre operating system installed.

Question is, can I now use my upstairs computer as a media centre extender?? aka watch TV on my computer?

Any help would be good,

Cheers

HEADRAT · 4 May 2006 at 04:57

Basically you can't use PC's as extenders.

HEADRAT

oafc0000 · 4 May 2006 at 09:08

lol

wonderful

HEADRAT · 4 May 2006 at 09:15

What you can do is share out the content from the MCE to the other machines but you can't play live tv.

HEADRAT

oafc0000 · 4 May 2006 at 11:53

yea ive already done that, its was the live TV I was after, thanks anyway

HEADRAT · 4 May 2006 at 12:02

Not sure how far the development has gone but I've tinkered with this in the past:-

http://www.orb.com/

HEADRAT

csmager · 4 May 2006 at 17:35

HEADRAT said:
Basically you can't use PC's as extenders.

'tis true. And irritating.

MS were rumoured to be working on a 'software extender', codenamed Softsled (i.e. to turn a PC into an extender). Never happened though.

HEADRAT · 5 May 2006 at 02:11

You can use a tablet PC as an extender apparently but it hasn't been released for XP, when Vista comes out I think this may support it.

HEADRAT