Vista Media Centre

iwrox

iwrox

iwrox

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Enjoying the Vista experience so far, however the tvguide seems to be missing data for some channels the most notable being ITV!

Is this some kind of licensing issue? or just something im missing....

Cheers
 
It just bodged adding listings to channels. Go to:

Tasks | Settings | TV | Guide | Add Listings To Channel.

Did this in XP too, evidently ITV isn't liked by MS(!)
 
So my experiences so far.

1. The MS MPEG2 decoder is as choppy as hell in a window but this may have something to do with the Nvidia 8800GTX drivers.

2. My Hauppauge dual tuner DVB-T card seems to work great!

3. Nvidia Purevideo seems to give a better picture and no choppyness, seems to break dvd playback in WMP11 (not Media Center itself though)

4. DXVA doesn't seem to work in Media Center.

5. Purevideo loses it's receiver setting all the time and defaults back to stereo!


Some handy stuff I've found:-

Decoder Utililty
http://mediacenterexpert.blogspot.com/2006/07/vista-media-center-decoder-utility.html

DVD Library

http://nilesh.officeisp.net/blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=3

XML for you movies

http://www.dvdxml.com/news.php

HEADRAT
 
Correct, it had bodged the listings. A bit of fiddling and all is well, cheers for that!

I also had the same problem with the MS decoder, and as you have done ive installed Purevideo which seems to have solved the problem.
 
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