I'm able to P2V my working protected content/CableCard physical desktop into an ESXi virtual machine.
But of course, the process upsets PlayReady which now wants to do an update .
And the PlayReady servers aren't listening any longer. So, it's not possible to update PlayReady.

Does anyone know of...

Just streamed a movie with sound, and windows 7 has sound. There is no sound in windows media center. Any ideas? Please help!
Just checked a recorded show in VLC and it has sound, so problem is with output, not input. Is this a HDHomerun problem? Any help much appreciated.

Not sure where to post this, but cannot program Media Center unless I know what is available to watch.

We get the regular TV Guide but it’s limited in coverage compared to TV Weekly. However TV Weekly keeps increasing their price. I know there are online guides & you can configure & print a custom...

Having proved that my current install is broken - it will not successfully come out of sleep mode and I have tried all of the recommended recovery steps - I am planning to do a repair install. Reading few guides I have seen mention of clearing out various files including system files such as...

Anyone know of or have the working driver for this card for w7 64bit
]I installed it in my system along with my working 2205 tuner card & driver from their site but get no tv signal error
also if i disable the quad tuner in device manager my other 2205 card picks up live tv fine
i am thinking it is...

Greetings everyone, I'm in RI at 02896. Recently channel 27 out of Marlboro MA started broadcasting ATSC3 channels:
102.1, 104.1, 105.1, 115.1, 125.1, 150.1, and 166.1
I'm using a recent HDHomeRun Flex 4k tuner which is capable of tuning ATSC3 channels. In the HDHomeRun Config GUI app, I do...

Can windows7 media center recorded programs be viewed on a smart TV

I’d like to record TV programs (either free OTA or basic cable) then watch w/ a smartTV
Which is none WMC.

I’ve recorded WMC programs OTA placed on a flash drive plugged it into the smart TV.

Smart TV recognized the corsair...

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...

I have a bunch of movies in mkv format, and I’ve added them in WMC as a video library, but almost all the thumbnails are black/blank. I have K-Lite and Icaros 2.2.x installed on both Windows 7 and Vista which I’m dual booting, and the thumbnail offset at around 20%. Is there a way to fix the blank...

My 2 TB storage drive was getting full in my Win 7 Pro WMC DVR computer, so I moved the recorded TV movie library to my 12 TB NAS and told WMC where the movies are now located. However, the movie poster art and most of the descriptions no longer show for each of the movies in my recorded movies...

Greetings everyone
I recently installed a new HDHomeRun 4K Flex - network OTA 4 channel tuner. When I detect channels on my Win7 machine all of the channels are not detected. In particular channel 12.1, thru 12.4, and 64.1 thru 64.4. These are VHF HI channels on RF channel 12 (CBS). In the HDHR...

My wife was reporting a strange smell coming from the area in the family room where the TV equipment lives (TV set, 7MC PC, external HDDs, Blu-ray player). As it had been a while since the last dusting of the PC's insides, I disconnected it, opened the case, blew out the accumulated dust, and then...

On my Win 7 media center, connected to a Denon x4200 via HDMI, with a 5.1 system, I am having a couple issues.

1. When performing the WMC audio setup, WMC is playing rear channels through the front, and barely anything through the sub. It used to work properly.

2. Some shows/commercials still...

I'm one of the 11% of computers still running Win 7 solely because, for TV programming I've refused to give up WMC and Gary's EPG123! It's reliable and awesome! There are no alternatives to that software that even comes close! Thanks Gary!! :clap:

Anyone out there have tips on how I can avoid...

Should be getting 17 days, hasn't updated for last four days
Had same trouble previously due to two instances of epg update running at the same time - but not this time.

The Trace Log:

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Beginning epg123 update...

I have been struggling for years to keep my glitchy Windows 7 computer alive to keep using the Windows Media Center and last week the computer completely died as far as my skills could handle. I took it to a shop and they ordered a twin unit off of ebay and moved my stuff over and I thought I would...

Hi have what I believe is a completely setup WMC instance of Windows 7 in a Hyper-V session with the Ceton connected to the virtual and setup with network tuning of the four tuners (infinitv 4). Can get into details if it helps. The xBox 360 comes up and loads media center after entering the 8...

I am in the process of building a new WMC box, and have some questions.

1. What is the best version of WMC? The latest community build from @garyan2 or use the stock one from 7/8?
2. What is the best OS *assuming I don’t care about windows updates*? This will be a WMC only machine not exposed to...

I have been running EPG Collector 4.3FP 23 since April 2020 without an error but starting yesterday, I have the error note above and the script is running in a loop without terminating.
I created a new batch file, thinking the old one has corrupted but it still does the same thing.

I noticed in...

My WMC is only using the last two tuners on my HDHomeRun PRIME. It doesn't use tuner0 and will give me a recording conflict if I want to record a third cable show, rather than using that tuner. However with tuner1 and tuner2 in use, if I bring up the HDHomeRun app on my phone, it will use tuner0 so...

I have a 12 year old Windows 7 HP Desktop workhorse.
My wife used this for her business, which she sold in 2013, it was sparsely used until I asked if I could use this as our HTPC. I had a USB tuner that I was using on my laptop previously.
This would have been around 2015, things worked smoothly...

OTA major network recordings.

I've noticed recently that the subtitles work great until around the last 25% of the program. At that point it stops and then a few seconds later goes to ALL CAPS, is delayed by three to five seconds, and is hit and miss as far as accuracy. Restarting and changing the...

I have been running Windows 7 Media Center for years. MY 9 year old 1080p TV died so I bought a new 4K Smart TV. It seemed to have solved the problem. I watched Live TV for about an hour and then watched an hour long Recorded TV show. When I went to watch another hour long Recorded TV show I got...

New issue on my MC tonight.

I started using the UI, either looking at recording programs or scheduled recordings and the PC rebooted. When it was back up, I went back into MC and it basically did the same thing again. I've done a manual reboot or two. MC isn't crashing now, but recordings are not...