WMC 8.9.1 Installation MSI Released

Discussion of getting WMC to work on Windows 10 (unsupported)
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WMC 8.9.1 Installation MSI Released

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Post by garyan2 » Sat Jan 28, 2023 5:23 am

I just released version 8.9.1 of the WMC installer for Win8.1/10/11. This version is based on both 8.8.5 and v13 by @technodevotee to perhaps give a better experience along with a couple fixes needed that I didn't know about until earlier this month.

https://garyan2.github.io/win10.html
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Post by garyan2 » Sat Jan 28, 2023 2:48 pm

For the first 9 folks that downloaded the new msi, if you get a warning that it couldn't register a dll, just click continue. I've updated the msi to remove that message.
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Post by patrick0525 » Thu Feb 02, 2023 12:46 am

I am using the older 8.8.4 on a W10 1511 with a cable card tuner.Do I need to use 8.9.1? Are there any instructions for the upgrade?

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Post by garyan2 » Thu Feb 02, 2023 1:11 am

If it is working for you, don't bother "upgrading". There will be no difference in what you have right now.

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Post by patrick0525 » Thu Feb 02, 2023 1:56 am

Gary, thank u for ur insight.

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Post by DrBri99 » Sun Feb 05, 2023 5:00 pm

Is it best to uninstall first?

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Post by garyan2 » Sun Feb 05, 2023 5:11 pm

Yes, you will need to uninstall whatever version of WMC you have to install this package.
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Post by Metalman » Wed Feb 08, 2023 2:27 am

Hello garyan2,
I have installed your WMC 8.9.1 and I am getting a Decoder Error: the video decoder is not working, is not installed, or is not supported.
This is on windows Pro 8.1 without WMC form Microsoft. I don't know what video decoder I need to install.
I have been using your EPG123 on my old computer with windows Pro 8.1 with WMC form Microsoft with no problems.

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Post by John UTAZ » Mon Mar 20, 2023 11:00 pm

Well... this is a new one for me.

The message, in case attachment doesn't work, says It appears there are 10 tuners available for use but only 6 of them configured in WMC. Do you wish to perform TV Setup again? I only have 4 tuners on this machine. Two Hauppauge WinTV-7164 with two tuners each. I tried to do a Restore Database Utilites and got a message that the tuners don't match and restore ended. Don't know if the backup has 4 tuners and I've got WMC thinking I have 6 or 10 tuners. After the setup finished... WMC also seemed to restart without me doing anything... Ghosts??

I'm not sure what I did but I was trying to upgrade an old Win7 PC to Win10 (that seemed to work ok) and add the latest WMC8.9.1 This is a backup PC so I am wondering if I should just uninstall WMC, uninstall EPG123, restart the machine and start over?? This is not my main machine but thought this might be an opportunity for me and possible others to learn from the Masters on what I did wrong and if it can be fixed.

I also got a message about PlayReady and probably answered that one wrong. :lol:

Thanks in advance for any advice.
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Post by garyan2 » Tue Mar 21, 2023 1:28 am

What version of EPG123 are you using?

2 things here... EPG123 sees 10 tuners in the registry and only 6 recorders setup. I believe this means that you have your 4 TV tuners, but also have 2 radio tuners (p/o your tuners, 1 each). Up until recently, the restore/rebuild process could not correctly match radio tuners and would fail the check and not do the restore. You can however bypass this if needed.

So for the 'Verify Tuner Count', you can simply say [No] to performing setup again. The prompt is really just a guess to your current hardware and not necessarily reality.
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Post by John UTAZ » Tue Mar 21, 2023 2:34 am

Hi Gary,

I'm using V1.7.3.0 of EPG123.

Should I remove PlayReady PC runtime amd64 from Apps & features? I only use OTA recordings.

Learned something new...didn't even know they had Radio Tuners.

Thank you for the great software and answering all these questions.

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Post by joyandwendy » Fri Mar 24, 2023 1:04 am

Thanks Gary,
My wmc install on windows 10 has no uninstall feature. It doesn't show up in the normal Programs & Features. Wmc does show up under the windows start menu and under the Windows Accesories but with no option to remove.
I also tried to delete the ehome folder but that doesn't work due to permissions.
Any suggestion? I see I need to uninstall existing wmc before trying you you latest version.
Thanks again.

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Post by garyan2 » Fri Mar 24, 2023 1:17 am

If your previous install is from the older zip file installs (8.8.5 and older from the folks at MDL), then you will have to use the uninstaller from that zip package to remove WMC.
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Post by Smog1583 » Sat Apr 01, 2023 11:26 pm

Hi all -

I've been happily using WMC with Windows 8.1 Pro for many years (with EPG and Schedules Direct for the past several years), but I was finally forced to upgrade to Windows 10 and am trying to sort out how much of the Windows 8.1 WMC experience I can salvage.

I downloaded and installed the above-linked WMC 8.9.1 installer and it seemed to install without incident, but when I try to launch WMC, nothing happens. I get the little spinning Windows wheel thing for a second or so, but the app never launches. I don't see any evidence of it running in Task Manger either.

Any suggestions?

Thanks!

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Post by garyan2 » Sun Apr 02, 2023 8:05 am

I think this is a scenario that the installer doesn't adapt to very well. See this thread. viewtopic.php?f=97&t=14091&p=149634&hil ... io#p149633
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Post by Megalocade » Sun Apr 02, 2023 10:36 pm

I've just built a new pc and have gone from win 7 to win 11 and disappointed that media centre was dropped, can't believe a standalone version exists, really appreciate this, it installed fine on the latest x64 win11 build even my media centre remote still works so big thanks 👍

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Post by tecky7 » Sat Apr 15, 2023 1:48 am

As a Programmer at the university of Bolton.

There is a problem with the latest version of WMC 8.9.1 installer when detecting the data it takes too long to download :mrgreen:

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Post by garyan2 » Sat Apr 15, 2023 2:29 am

As a WMC user anywhere, WMC will not successfully download data at all because the servers that provided that data are no longer available. That is why I suggest to temporarily set internet connection to NOT always on to easily get past that part of TV Setup.
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Post by tecky7 » Sat Apr 15, 2023 3:45 am

hi

i have both versions on my nas 8.8.5 and 8.9.1 and I found out the version 8.9.1 is buggy as its does not bypass the server detections. :mrgreen: in the setup.

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Post by tecky7 » Sat Apr 15, 2023 3:55 am

Here is a screen dump of mybnas
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The old.msi as 8.8.5 works on my system with no problems all before detecting the channels

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