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Playing Videos on a MCE PC
Hi I now have MCE installed on a Shuttle PC with built in ATI Radeon 9100. (I think I will need a better AGP video card). Questions: 1. DVD wont play under WinMCE interface. Looks like cannot do video overlay. Which NVIDIA would you suggest I get to be compatible? Thanks Rob.

Considering purcahsing a MCE 2005 PC to Replace a TiVo
As Chris notes, you can get some of what you're looking for with a second Media Center. If you share out your TV, Music, and Videos directories on the first MCE PC, and then place shortcuts to those shares in the My Videos and My Music folders on your second Media Center PC, you will be able to browse and play the

File Sharing Problem with Windows MCE PC
My question is as follows: I have a dedicated MCE PC, but it's in a big, noisy tower case which I hate. I wanted to ask people's advice on cases, which are very, very small - mini itx kind of size, and ideally silent (i think I'm right in saying there are some fanless cases?). I understand that I will probably have

Play XBox on my PC
Internet Shopper e...@mn.rr.com microsoft public windows mediacenter "Keith Hill" wrote: What have others done here to get surround sound going in their family room with MCE PCs? -- I ordered the Klipsch ProMedia surround speakers with my MCE PC. At the time they were rated the best surround speakers for the PC.

Possible to use MCE PC like an extender for "My TV"
Paul K. pkudl...@hotmail.com microsoft public windows mediacenter John, Wouldn't it be easier on you to put the Media Center PC by your plasma media center. Think about it, you to play a DVD or CD and you'll have to run into your office to insert it and then run back out to your media center.

hardware change in a windows XP MCE PC
so I don't think it's a great stretch for one to consider MCE a "DVD player" - especially if you don't own a (traditional) stand-alone DVD player. An ordinary PC can not necessarily be a "Media Center PC" as Microsoft has some very specific hardware requirements such as a DVD drive; also "Windows XP Media Center

Considering purcahsing a MCE 2005 PC to Replace a TiVo
"ThreeD" wrote: I'm new to MCE 2005 so I have a lot of questions I will be asking in the coming days/weeks. On a MCE PC where you want to play a video (DVD), do you first need to install some type of encoding software? I found this to be necessary on a plain vanilla WIN XP machine that does not have MCE installed.

Problem with my MCE PC - Day 3
Zag z...@zigmail.com van forsale That's a pretty low end system to offer for a 2005 media PC. <trevornetw...@gmail.com> wrote in message news:1130362659.096131.15450@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com... Hi All, I would like to trade my gaming PC for a decent Windows Media Center 2005 PC for my living room.

Making DVD
Most don't look very nice except for perhaps the Klipsch but even it is black where I was kind of looking for the silver color of the Sony speakers. I am not sure if any of the accept optical input. Since my MCE PC supports optical out it would be nice to use just a single optical cable. What have others done here

Considering purcahsing a MCE 2005 PC to Replace a TiVo
Dana Cline - MCE MVP "Richie" <Ric...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:10147F52-1286-494C-97D0-77DF76EF488B@microsoft.com... Hello all, I have an alienware media centre pc with XP SP2 and just of late I am not able to play games on it as I was before. I haven't play any games on the pc in over a

Multiple Media Centre Extenders on a single MCE computer ???
If it's in your media center, you'll have run high quality video and audio cables out to your office and the run video, audio and ir receiver (usb) cable back out to your media center. For the cost of high quality cables you could almost buy another Media Center PC for your office. I'm almost not kidding on the

Use 2nd MCE PC like extender?
Pestalence pestale...@startrek.net microsoft public windows mediacenter MCE requires the PC to be built to it's specifications.. you can't just build a PC and expect MCE to work, MCE is not designed that way.. that is why MCE is primarialy released on Custom built machines that manufacturers buile with Miocrosoft's

Planning to buy MCE PC and doing my research here...
Robert R Kircher, Jr. rrkirc...@hotmail.com microsoft public windows mediacenter Ok so I've got this old Dell Dimension XPS which has a PIII 1GHz processors, 768 Mb of RAM, and a SoundBlaster Live card. Do you think I could make it good MCE PC by adding a Hauppage 250 and a Philips Remote? What do you think?

MCE virgin...
How do I upgrade my Gateway 2004 MCE computer to MCE 2005? I called Gateway support and they don't have a clue. With no upgrade path from Gateway and/or Microsoft, my MCE PC is obsolete after 10 months use! Microsoft - Why would I consider any "extender products" if I can't get the software upgraded?

Hy-Tek announces MCE PC
Also, every device on the network wirelessly slows things down, and people have found a wireless MCE PC to a router to a wireless MCE Extender doesn't have the It works best to connect the media center PC to the router or access point by Ethernet. But if you don't already have a wireless card in your MCE PC,

Best speaker setup for MCE PC
Reginald Blue Reginald_B...@hotmail.com microsoft public windows mediacenter I have a nearly identical setup to yours, and I've installed all of the security patches, as well as several of the non-security patches, and I can still connect from my XBox to the MCE PC. So, I don't _think_ it's the patches.

Wireless Router and MCE
I use my MCE PC all the time for work. If I do want to reboot it for some reason while a show is being recorded, I'm not prevented from doing so. I just get a warning that a show is being recorded, and I'm given the option to proceed or cancel the shutdown. -Bob Thanks to everyone for the help.

Building a UK Vista MCE PC - advice for a newbie please
If you have an MCE pc, what do you use if anything at all? Scott GT: Vittorrio I found mce a waste of time for me as all my films are on dvd. -- XBL Gamertag: ScoopeX Currently Playing: Perfect Dark Zero - XBOX 360. Xbox.com - Founding member. :) EuroMillions lotto prize winner 06/01/06 £3532.20. :)

Can't setup my MCE PC 50' away from my TV/entertainment ctr!
Based on the advice from those who replied I removed the drivers that were updated from MS updates and completely removed the ATI drivers and software from the MCE PC and re-installed the ATI software with the most update from ATI which is version 7.1 (thanks Dana !). After installation I rebooted the PC and got

File Sharing Problem with Windows MCE PC
Photos, videos, music can easily be shared between MCE machines. Recorded TV is different and doesn't work well, or reliably over a network connection. Additionally, there is no way to control the other MCE PC in the same fashion as an extender. -- Doug Knox, MS-MVP Windows Media Center\Windows Powered Smart