Windows Media Centre on HTPC - some functionality questions

Scott Salisbury · 6 Nov 2008 at 01:10

I'm thinking about building my first media pc for the living room.

Now I have no knowledge of WMC. I'd simply like to rely on using my wireless network to populate the media pc with content, but the overall general control of playback will be done using only the media remote.

So for example, lets say I drag over some videos over the network, it will be automatically available on the media browser via the remote, without having to use a keyboard or mouse?

Is this functionality possible with WMC?

Scott Salisbury · 6 Nov 2008 at 13:17

wow cool, thanks for the replies.

This will work perfectly for what I want. Great

Scott Salisbury · 14 Nov 2008 at 14:26

What would be a recommended MCE Remote for this functionality? Would the standard microsoft one do the trick? Can you skip forward and backward when watching DVD and AVI files?

Scott Salisbury · 21 Nov 2008 at 18:06

bump

Scott Salisbury · 23 Nov 2008 at 15:22

Thanks for the replies :-)

You mention the logitech remotes, are these the Harmony series remotes? They look impressive and expensive - but probably a bit overkill for what I need.

Scott.

Scott Salisbury · 24 Nov 2008 at 14:08

Does Vista MCE allow you to RDC without interupting playback?

So for example, if someone is watching a movie on the TV I can still RDC in the background to carry out whatever tasks?