Throughout the years, we have purchased computers and most all were replaced and thrown away except for the original 2005 SONY VAIO VGX-XL1A Digital Living System with Media Center. Personally I think it’s a handsome machine with its minimalist design. Nevermind the specs even when it was new it...

My father-in-law likes to record the nightly news but for some reason they are not honoring the series option. We’re set to record new and rerun, but it still has issues.

I’ve cleared out the entire recording schedule and set it up from scratch, but the issue persists. Any thoughts or suggestions?...

I recently started experiencing choppy live tv playback under WMC 8.1 (x64). I've tried updating my video drivers to the latest version and have also tried K-Lite and Shark007 codecs. I'm running a Hauppauge WinTV-DCR-2650 dual tv tuner using a Verizon FioS cable card and EPG123. System specs:...

Today, for the first time, I'm not able to update my virus definitions. Anybody else seeing this? I hope it's just a glitch.

I followed this post a few years ago:

I verified I have the Recording task is set to Windows 8.1 Compatibility, and the system at one point was able to Wake to record, then just stopped waking. I recall there is a tool to troubleshoot issues with a system not entering Sleep, but what about Wake...

So today I discovered, after looking at my latest recordings, that I got the can only play this content on the same computer....blah, blah, blah. The only change was I redirected where to save the recordings were saved ( a different hard drive on the same computer) as the previous one was filling...

Well, Playready did it again, but I don't think it was the pointed to folder for recordings. last night I found WMC lost the tuners sometime during the day, no recording all day and no live TV so rebooted and all was well, or so I thought. Woke up this morning to protected channel recordings with...

Woke up this morning and my XBox 360 extenders were complaining about not being able to record shows. Logged into the Windows 8.1 MCE and noticed that EPG was red and complaining. Noticed a couple things:

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Activating...

Chromium web browsers now feature a persistent warning banner about use on unsupported operating system when launched on Windows 7 and 8.
I wouldn't recommend using an old O/S for heavy web browsing, but the banner can be annoying if streaming video.
It can be permanently disabled with the...

My Win 8.1 installation of WMC has been stable for years. I have both Ceton and Silicondust cable card tuners, and I'm using EPG123 and Schedules Direct for guide data. Recently (ish) WMC has been randomly asking to update Playready. It will work for days/weeks, then the Playready update message...

Windows 8.1 support ends this week, but I turned off updates a little while back after one broke WMC. So I can't see much changing. Still using and enjoying WMC after eight years. My Win 8.1 PC is in the bedroom closet, and my husband and I mainly watch in the den with an Xbox 360.

That said, for...

I have WMC working just fine on my Windows 7 Ultimate system using an HDHomeRun PRIME and 2 dual tuners for ATSC1. I have an older HP 17 Pavilion laptop running Windows 8.1 that I wanted to run WMC on since the laptop is connected via HDMI to my TCL Roku TV which is on another floor from my Win7...

I am trying to figure out how to get an InfiniTV working with MCE on a virtual machine and the card installed in the host. I was going to go with Windows 8.1 Pro which is what my current system is running but for some reason I can't find the option to install WMC anywhere. Not in that area under...

OK have a good one for you folks I think. I have a computer that's been running MCE with a InfiniTV 4 and obviously CableCard since like 2011 maybe earlier probably when my last system was built. Still love it. Historically I know when my InfiniTV failed and had to replace it, Comcast couldn't get...

I'm using version 1.7.1.12 of the EPG123 guide. It works great, with one exception. Every few days, like this morning for example, the daily update fails, citing the following from the trace log:

Exiting RunWmcIndexTask(PvrScheduleTask). SUCCESS.
Entering RunWmcIndexTask(ReindexSearchRoot)...

Fail to complete the automatic mapping of lineup stations to tuner

I had to do a reset of my WMC Setup. All went well- did not opt in to WMC guide- aand no Guide shown on home page.
Save and Eecuted my Subscribed Lineups. All went well until near the end when this error message appeared in red...

My media center will record without problems and also play live TV. When I play recorded programs, after a certain amount of time, my WMC shuts down and the monitor goes to sleep. No matter what I do the only way to bring it back is to press the start /stop button on the PC. Under programs and...

LOL This is getting stoopid, a fresh install after a crash, lost my DRM programs, now this. 4 times, shut off windows firewall no security apps almost clean install.
Wired internet, no issues surfing.

At the end of activating digital cable
cant watch protected content until internet is...

I've been waiting for the 5000 series Ryzen 5700G and now that they are available. I want to upgrade Windows 7 Media Center to Windows 8.1 Media Center because I want to upgrade to 64-bit so I can allocate 2GB to the frame buffer to the APU.

Is anybody using the slightly older Ryzen 3400G or...

I have a fresh Windows 8 Release Preview install of MediaCenter. When I try to add a recording using the Search method I see this warning down in the lower right corner: SEARCH RESULTS MAY BE INCOMPLETE BECAUSE THE GUIDE LISTINGS ARE STILL BEING INDEXED
Any idea how I get the guide to be indexed?

Backup DRM keys for WMC So you can watch previously recorded programs?

Its time to roll back to a previous win 8 on marcum reflect. How do you save the DRM keys. I know you can do it, I have years ago, but that memory cache has been cleared... :D

Hey everyone, I have been running without issue for a very long time. Yesterday I happened to notice my EPG icon was red, checked the log and said no tuners and couldn't update the mxf. I opened WMC to my surprise it had reset itself. While inconvenient due to my lengthy recording list, not the end...