HD-PVR on VMC? Thats what it says...

[rzuffi]

http://www.geektonic.com/2009/02/hau...ia-center.html

Haven't tried yet, but I'll give it a try anyway.

[TomXP411]

You mean WMC: Windows Media Center. When I saw that, I got excited, thinking you were talking about VLC. Needless to say, that wasn't it.

[rzuffi]

No, I meant VMC, as in Vista Media Center...but I guess from reading further, it doesn't matter because it only works if you have a version of Windows Media Center that supports H.264 playback.

Says you need "Windows 7 or a Windows Media Center with H.264 support for Live TV"

Not sure which versions of XP MCE 2005 and Vista Media Center have H.264 support. Maybe just a version that MS released to countries with DVB signal...Anyone know?

If anyone has further info or has gotten this to work, please reply.

I tried installing on my HTPC and its not taking for some reason.

[cfaslave]

Originally Posted by rzuffi

Says you need "Windows 7 or a Windows Media Center with H.264 support for Live TV"

Not sure which versions of XP MCE 2005 and Vista Media Center have H.264 support. Maybe just a version that MS released to countries with DVB signal...Anyone know?

Well as surprising as it sounds there are a few copies of Vista Media Center with h.264 unofficial support hiding out there. h.264 was in the VMC TV Pack beta at one point so it was originally planned to be released, but part way through the beta they decided to move it to Windows 7. A very few copies of VMC overseas have h.264, but not too many.

For most of us, only Windows 7 will have h.264 support so this would only work with Windows 7. There is currently no North America EPG support even for windows 7 on this solution although they are saying they hope to have a new release this week with EPG support for us.

[Octavean]

Actually I believe the reference was to Windows Vista Media Center with 2008 TV Feature Pack and modified hacked H.264 support. It shouldn’t be difficult to implement the mod / hack.

This rather long thread should have all the info you need with respect to the mod / hack and possibly links to the necessary file:

TV Pack 2008 and Beta MSDTVVDEC.DLL.

Basically, some cleaver cusses removed the H.264 stream support functionality from the beta TV Pack and removed the time-bomb so that it could be used with Vista Media Center and the final version of the TV Pack.

[TomXP411]

Originally Posted by rzuffi

No, I meant VMC, as in Vista Media Center...but I guess from reading further, it doesn't matter because it only works if you have a version of Windows Media Center that supports H.264 playback.

Gotcha. It was just confusing, because Media Center isn't a Vista thing... it's been around since 2003 on 4 different versions of Windows. But more to the point, its name isn't "Vista Media Center", it's "Windows Media Center." Hence my confusion.

[cfaslave]

Originally Posted by TomXP411

But more to the point, its name isn't "Vista Media Center", it's "Windows Media Center." Hence my confusion.

Don't worry, even Microsoft employees call it VMC and Vista Media Center on occasion and it's VMC acronym is more often than any other.

So now we have Windows 7 Media Center without any real, official name so W7MC seems to be getting used a lot.

[TomXP411]

Originally Posted by cfaslave

Don't worry, even Microsoft employees call it VMC and Vista Media Center on occasion and it's VMC acronym is more often than any other.

So now we have Windows 7 Media Center without any real, official name so W7MC seems to be getting used a lot.

That's cause they're forced to push Vista. Calling it "Vista" Media Center means that "Vista" is better and "Vista" will save us from the alien invasion.

That's why I refuse to call it that.

Of course, I don't like Media Center much to begin with. Microsoft is great at designing UI's that LOOK pretty but don't actually work. I'd rather face a herd of angry bison barehanded than have to rely on a WMC system as my primary DVR.