Anyone using Windows Media Center?

<Mitch DeleteThis @_._> wrote in message
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> I loved TVersity when I had XP, but it just isn't working
> with Vista. I found out that my version of Vista includes
> WMC.
>
> Is it any good, or a big hassle?

I had a slight hiccup with due to Nero interfering. Apart from that I've
been very happy. However I prefer the no-frills approach of media player 11
over MC.

BTW while we're on the subject am I just being very dense or do neither MC
or MP11 have a search option at the XBox end? Manually navigating my music
is a pain.

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> "Morgan" <Nospam DeleteThis @nospam.com> wrote in message
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>> "khee mao" <asdf DeleteThis @asdf.asdf> wrote in message
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>>> <Mitch DeleteThis @_._> wrote in message
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>>> > I loved TVersity when I had XP, but it just isn't
>>> > working with Vista. I found out that my version of
>>> > Vista includes WMC. Is it any good, or a big hassle?
>>> >
>>> >
>>> I fiddled for a couple hours last night trying to connect
>>> to my Vista PC from my 360 with no luck. it'd get as far
>>> as 'connecting to media center' then time out, which is
>>> odd because I've connected before, but about what one
>>> should expect from MicroSoft...
>>
>> Sounds like a wetware problem. You'll most likely find the problem
>> somewhere between the keyboard and the seat.
>>
>> Seriously, on a PC the probelm could be down to more than jsut MS. For
>> example when I first tried it I had conection problems to to an old
>> verion of Nero interfearing.
>>
> if you have any real suggestions, I'm all for it, as Media Center to my
> 360 just refuses to 'work'. on a good day, I can get the Media Center
> screen on my 360 after a minute or two, wait another minute or two to be
> able to get to my albums, wait another 5-10 minutes while my album art
> populates (about 300 albums), wait anywhere from a second to a minute or
> two to skip to the next album, I mean wtf? it's obviously 'working', but
> it's not 'working'. task manager says I have plenty of bandwidth on my pc
> for computation, memory, and network. network properties average between
> 36 and full 54 mb connection with good to excellent signal strength.
> so...what else should I do? ports are obviously forwarded, I bumped up
> Media Center runtime priorities, what else can I do short of running wire?
> the really weird part is that via my 360 or PS3, if I bypass the Media
> Center hooks, I can access my music nearly instantaneously, which leads me
> to conclude that something is fundamentally wrong with Vista/Media Center
> and/or my 360. of course, I had the same kinds of issues when I was
> running Media Center edition xp and thought, wrongly, that things might
> work better under Vista.

I tend to browse music under the Zune extender (You could you WMP extender
too;) and use the Xbox extender for recorded TV.


--
Andrew