Of all the features provided by Media Center, the Video Library on the “Pictures + Video” strip is the one my family and I use the least. Most of my video actually resides elsewhere: Recorded TV, OML Plugin (Movie Library), Video Library Plugin (TV Library). I do have a few video files that I have [...]
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I have finally completed the videos that go along with my Living With Media Center posts. Here are all of them in order. I have also gone back and updated the posts to include the videos. The shortcut to all the Living With Media Center` posts are on the right hand side. I also wanted [...]
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This post will cover the out-of-the-box Photo support and feature set of Windows Media Center. The purpose is to explain how my family and I use or do not use these features in our normal usage scenarios. Read more below. Importing Pictures – Getting your pictures to show up in Media Center is very easy [...]
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I know a lot of people have complained about the music functionality in Media Center, but I really like it. It has a really cool slick UI. You can sort you music by a few canned sort options such as Year, Genre, Artist, Album. You can see all of the album art in a small [...]
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The main driver in moving my family to a Media Center system was for the perceived advantages over the DVR supplied by Time Warner Cable (our cable provider) or over buying a Tivo. The advantages I expected to deliver to my family were Recording without regard to space Smart/keyword series recording (i.e. record all “sports” [...]
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