Re: Vista MCE is a POS....
- From: "Buellpilot" <colin_mcclinton@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2008 01:48:27 +0100
Your assertion that media center is a POS is not reflected in the
experiences
of others.... perhaps there is something flawed in the process that you
are using to setup your media center.
What type of video files do you have in the folders?
Have you loaded the correct codecs for each video file?
Tell me you haven't used a 'codec pack' ! as they are the road to ruin.
"rgpsmoker1" <rgpsmoker1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I have tried everything to make this thing work, but I have failed
misrably... I give up, IT's a POS...
The Video Library feature Crashed all the freaking time, everytime
freaking... I select "video library", click... it crashes... the little
whurly thing comes on and thats it, the screen never changes... the remote
is
dead... the mouse is dead... the only thing I can do is "alt, cntrl, del"
to
end VMCE...
Once I'm to the desktop, VMCE never will restart... I must restart the
computer to get it active again... But this time I will get VMCE to work
all
the way up to actualy playing a *.wmv or *.dvr-ms file in the library...
and then when I use the "Back" button on the remote, it crashes, but not
all
the times... and I need to restart the whole computer, again...
My library consists of files on my Local machine (Vista Home Premium) and
files on two Networked machines (WinXP 32bit Pro & 64Bit Pro)... VMCE will
crash as I desribed, no matter what machine I am trying to play a file
from... file sharing works great, from the desktop... although I can't
seem
to share my Printer with anyone on the network, says "users need a P/W"
but
doesn't say how to set it... All my machs are set with NO p/w and I am the
Admin when I log onto each mach... its just a Home network for crying out
loud...
I have had some success with NOT using the "back" button, and instead,
using
the MC button to goto the start... but many times when I manuver back to
the
Video library, to select another file to play... it crashes anywhere
during
the process...
and I must restart the computer again...
Does anyone know how to fix this? or should I junk it altogether?
Overall, the Vista OS is pretty streamlined and is stable, but the MCE
part
is a POS...
My hardware is all New... and if you need to know:
Gigabit P35 chipset Mobo, Intel Pentium D 930, OCZ 2x2g(4g) mem, Rosewill
RAID PCIe1x, 2ea Seagate 250g SATAII, MSI NX8500GT 256, 2ea Harppage
HVR1600
tuners...
I'm just about feed up enough to FDisk and re-install MCE2005, that one
worked great... very simple to add/delete instances in my library...
MCE2005
is very stable... what went wrong with Vista?
.
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