My recordings used to occur without fail, then something changed. I have had this issue for years and cant resolve it, so I'd thought I'd ask here. I have 2 Win 8.1 systems, both exhibit the same problem which manifests itself as tuners not found when a recording is scheduled or when using Guide. I...

If you are like me and running WMC on a newer CPU

Intel seventh (7th)-generation processors (Kaby Lake) or later
AMD Bristol Ridge (Seventh generation) or newer
Qualcomm 8996

Microsoft was released few updates with (Ry)Zen and Kaby Lake CPUs detection with new annoying ballot screen, see...

if the netflix app can be accessed from within WMC (win 8.1), why can i not access slingtv? these are my tv sources (OTA with hauppauge DVR, and slingtv) and it would be awesome to have it within WMC!
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Today, I found all my non-locals are non-tunable, generating the No TV Signal error. I verified they actually ARE tunable from my HD HomeRun Prime via DLNA, so it's WMC that's at fault. Looking at the channel sources, I find four, the correct channel and three bogus ones. Multiply by three because...

Win 8.1 build with a Ceton InfinityTV PCIe 6, Videocard Geforce 970 GTX
I was running for about a week without any issuses just bypassing the Digital Cable Advisor...
Only problem is the TV Guide won't correctly download now... only partial listings...

Any suggestions?

Recently I switched from using my Ceton ETH6 to a HD Homerun Prime using my existing cable card. My HBO is no longer working and give a subscription not active message. I am not sure of the correct search terms for what I need to do. Do I need to reset DRM? I have re-run the cable adviser in WMC....

I've read where YAMMM is supposed to handle metadata but parental rating doesn't seem to work for me. YAMMM correctly renames my movies, creates a folder icon, and creates a dvdid xml file.

Year and Genre work but if I select to sort by Parental Rating, I get one R movie, one NR Movie, and 200...

When I click my taskbar WMC button it highlights as if it is running but only for 2-3 seconds. I did this with task manager open and it shows the WMC process only during this time. There are no errors and media extenders can not connect to the PC. System restore did not fix the issue.

Hey all.

WMC on Win 8.1. Previously working fine, then my hardware died. I moved the HD to another machine. It was initially working fine for a few hours, now I get the Display Driver Error when opening WMC.

Some things to note:
1) I don't get the few seconds of content before the error comes up...

So I've been a longtime stalker of the boards, but just officially jumped into the community - of course, due to having an issue.

For 4+ years now, I've been using WMC as the backbone of whole-home DVR and live viewing. Everything I currently record/stream is done on a server-style PC on Win 8.1,...

I've been using Windows Media Center in Windows 8 since Windows 8 first launched. Just recently, I've noticed that when I use my wireless keyboard with touchpad, the mouse cursor is no longer visible in WMC. The cursor appears normally on the Windows desktop or when running any other program. I'm...

Building out a new low power (low heat!) HTPC to replace my 2010 era i3 turd. I read Win 7 MC will go end of life around 2020, and Win 8 will follow in 2023. If I purchase a Win 8.1 Pro disk on eBay, can I use the Media Pack key for Win 8 that I got from MS a couple of years ago? I am not sure if I...

Can I still add media center to windows 8.1 pro? I need to perform a clean install but want to be sure I can use media center

So in the last week or so I've started having a weird problem with my downstairs Xbox 360 as an extender. After about 15 minutes of use the extender will suddenly lose the connection, go to the reconnect screen, and then after about five minutes reconnect to the WMC PC all by itself. This will...

I was very late to the WMC party. I've been running it for about 2 years and have a large amount of movies mixed in with the TV shows.

Following other forum suggestions I moved all the movies into a separate Movie library and put each .wmv file into its own subdir. But of course now the Movie menu...

I just had to reinstall Windows 8.1 last night because of a hard drive issue. After my TV setup was completed, I noticed an issue with the Music Choice channels that each play a specific genre.

In my channel lineup, channels 901 through 1000 are all labeled Music Choice genre . I noticed that...

Can someone please advise what ports need to be opened and how to set a firewall please in WMC? I had to replace a router and I keep getting getting no tuner available message. I have a working HD prime that I can use with Kodi. Thank you.

Today i received my new AMD RX 460 card but when i try to watch 4k Live tv such as UHD1 on Sat 19.2. I only get message Digital Radio Station on blue background but audio signal works.
Shark codecs with lav filter don't help. Is there a solution?
Without 4k live tv support WMC will come to an end...

I had my media center movie folder of ripped DVDs on a storage spaces drive which was a combination of two drives and that seemed to cause a playback problem so I got those drives back as two separate drives and then copied the DVD files folder from my backup drive which was made via the Windows...

When setting up WMC 8.1 I go thru the Set Up TV Signal option...
This takes me to Region: (shows United States)
- I then click the radio button for Yes, use this region to configure TV services
Then click Next
This takes me to where you enter your zip code..
- I keyed in 44001 for my location...

Hello. I have been using WMC since 2009 and I have run into a problem. I have not had this problem before and can not resolve. I have five channels that give me the error Service
is unavailable There is currently no tv signal detected for this channel. The channel may be temp off the air. Try...

With many positive experiences posted for running a modified WMC under Win10, I finally upgraded from 8.1 to 10.

Eventually, I gave up trying to get Win 10 to recognize my Ceton InfiniTV4 drivers (which tested just fine with Ceton diagnostics). Just now I've backed out to 8.1... however, WMC is no...