Windows media center?

martynsimo · 20 Feb 2007 at 17:38

I have just got vista prem installed couple of days ago...all is lovely! Appart from media center. I have added all my pictures and music through the add folders part from another hard drive installed in pc. Music works great but the pictures are just showing empty folders even though they are chocker with pictures and videos?? Have started from begining a few times but still not having it. Why wont it show my photos?? (photos are there in vista photo album and physicly there i`ve checked that bit!)
Cheers

wormvortex · 20 Feb 2007 at 18:01

do you have adobe photoshop installed?

martynsimo · 20 Feb 2007 at 18:06

no i dont have photo shop.....At the moment its a clean install with very little other than vista on along with other hard drive containing all photo`s and music. I have just tried media center again by running an express set up. It finds all folders but says they contain no pictures...music works fine??? ahhh

wormvortex · 20 Feb 2007 at 18:16

I'm having the same problem which started after installing photoshop and i read elsewhere that it causes the problem. I can see BMP's on media center but not jpegs.

martynsimo · 20 Feb 2007 at 18:18

Thats the same here...all Bmps are shown and you can view. I`ve even copied some photos into my pictures on main hard drive but it still doesnt see them. Funny thing is, 1st time i used media center it worked. 2nd time i tried all is not right?!!

wormvortex · 20 Feb 2007 at 18:21

yeah same here. the only thing I can seee is when i click on a bmp its shown as shared with mcx1 where as the bmp's are not. Though I have no idea what mcx1 is, it appears under users but its a folder of empty folders. :confused:

martynsimo · 20 Feb 2007 at 18:23

the only thing i think i may have done is update my nvidea driver, instead of using the vista driver...that cant be the reason can it?

wormvortex · 20 Feb 2007 at 18:26

nah isn't that as that was the first thing I updated and it worked fine till the other day.

Have you installed any image editing programs at all?

martynsimo · 20 Feb 2007 at 18:45

nah dont think so. got adobe flash player 9 active x.....??....i`l get rid of that c *** happens!

martynsimo · 20 Feb 2007 at 18:50

eeeer nope that didnt do it....still says no files in folders.

Meatball · 20 Feb 2007 at 19:31

Does Media Center work with .AAC (M4A) files? More specifically does it read the ID3 tags and artwork properly

the-void · 20 Feb 2007 at 20:05

I helped my friend upgrade his machine to Vista and I noticed his media centre doing exactly the same thing. Fresh install, no other programs installed. Pictures on another drive. I added them in Windows Media Player and from then on it seemed to work (after the third attempt mind you)

Still it was a puzzle at the time. (and still is)

Supercow · 20 Feb 2007 at 20:46

I'll probably end up getting banned for spamming this, but see sig

HEADRAT · 20 Feb 2007 at 20:49

sup3rc0w said:
I'll probably end up getting banned for spamming this, but see sig

I wish you would, Media Portal sucks

Can it allow Xbox360 to connect to it, nope!

HEADRAT

Supercow · 20 Feb 2007 at 21:15

HEADRAT said:
I wish you would, Media Portal sucks

Can it allow Xbox360 to connect to it, nope!

HEADRAT

Prolly the only thing it doesn't do then that MP can do.... shall we start listing all the things that MP does, or does better than MCE?

HEADRAT · 20 Feb 2007 at 21:29

sup3rc0w said:
shall we start listing all the things that MP does, or does better than MCE?

No it's OK, this was a thread about WMC before you took it OT

Last time I used MP it was terrible with DVB-T, wouldn't see a single card let alone dual tuners, also getting UK guide data was hit or miss, got burnt never went back!

HEADRAT