One of the few features missing from Windows 7 Media Center but available in most modern DVR setups is the ability to remotely schedule recordings. This much touted feature of commercial DVR systems such as Direct TV have been sorely missed by many media center enthusiasts who are frequently away from home. Luckily, a third party program from FatAttidtude [...]
Are you one of the many Media Center users already running a Vista Media Center and planning to upgrade to a new Windows 7 install? If so, it’s likely that you’d want to move your recording schedule over as well. For those planning to do a simple upgrade the process should be automatic, however, if you’re planning a clean [...]
In search of an easy as pie way to relocate your recorded TV from one location to another? Perhaps a storage drive or a networked server machine? Well, Recorded TV Manager 3 has got you covered. This program is somewhat light on features but it gets the job done if you’re looking for simple and easy. Installation is relatively [...]
ShowAnalyzer from Dragon Global is a premium commercial scanning application which was a favorite among Vista Media Center users. When Windows 7 came along and introduced the WTV format it took quite a bit of manual work to get it working for 7MC users however. Not any longer! ShowAnalyzer now has native support for the WTV format and a [...]
Some 3rd-Party EPG guide programs (which we’ll be covering soon) require you to have your EPG listings in XMLTV format. It can also be handy to have a copy of the Windows 7 Media Center listings if you switch between multiple HTPC applications. The easiest method, by far, to convert Media Center guide data into a standardized XMLTV format [...]
Following up on our guides to increasing the length of your live TV buffer and using a RamDisk to store your buffer files, you might be interested in using a flash USB drive such as the Corsair Flash Voyager 16gb to store your buffer files. Advantages of using a USB drive to store the buffer include a speed increase [...]
There are a number of conceivable reasons to setup a RamDisk on your Media Center PC. The biggest plausible reason is for the performance increase that can be gained by using a RamDisk as opposed to a Hard Disk to store the temporary files created for time-shifting live TV. In place of writing and erasing this data to your [...]
This week in place of Reader Question and Answer we have a hot reader tip from a member named N3M3515 to share. If you’ve got a tip of your own to share with the Hack7MC readers be sure to send it in through our contact form. This particular tip involves increasing the default buffer length for Live TV in [...]
If you’re looking for a way to record to one drive and move it to another, perhaps recording to a local disk then moving it to a network storage drive, then DVRMSToolbox may just provide the solution you’re looking for. Using the FileWatcher service and the right processing conditions you can setup a process to automatically move your recordings [...]
