Archive for November, 2008

RSS Feeds.

I just spent some time registering for a bunch of the RSS feed sites so that I can get a little more traffic.  One that stood out to me was rssHugger.  Unlike other feed sites, rssHugger doesn’t require a lengthy registration or hyperlink embedded on your front page - they require a review of their [...]

Tuesday, November 25th, 2008

Move the MyMovies FileStorage Location.

This is the final installment in MyMovies default location ‘hacking’ - moving the FileStorage share to another location.
The FileStorage folder contains the Covers and Photos directories, which are pretty self-explanatory.  There’s also a SQL database transaction file in there, but we don’t need to concern ourselves with that (just don’t delete it).  The FileStorage folder [...]

Friday, November 21st, 2008

Video Browser Genre Images.

By default, Video Browser doesn’t include any genre images.  It actually has some pretty ugly folder-looking-things with wrapped text indicating the genre within it.  For most of the day, I’ve worked on replacing those with something that is at least a little nicer to look at.
I’m no graphic artist, but I think I’ve done a [...]

Friday, November 21st, 2008

Bye-bye Comcast Digital Voice!

Forgot to write about it earlier in the week, but on Saturday we all piled up in the car and drove out to MicroCenter.  We have been wanting to ditch the Comcast Digital Voice for a while, but finally decided to do it since they had a nice Vonage promotion going on and T-Mobile wanted [...]

Thursday, November 20th, 2008

Moving the MyMovies Database.

OK, here it is…the guide many of you have been waiting for.  This guide will show you how to move the MyMovies database to another location.  However, before I begin, I want to make a few things very clear:

Brian Binnerup of MyMovies does not and will not support anything that happens as a result of [...]

Thursday, November 20th, 2008

Plugin updates.

Just wanted to leave a quick notice of a few popular Vista Media Center plugins that have ramped up as of late and introduced new versions with some excellent features.

JackLuminous’ Video Library over at TheGreenButton has re-added movie metadata fetching capabilities now that TheMovieDB.org has a working API.  There has been a lot of updates [...]

Friday, November 14th, 2008

Unable to remove items in library.

I’ve never really had this issue since first using  Vista Media Center, but thought I would pass along this little tidbit of information since I’ve seen it on a few different forums lately.
The issue involves the Video Library in Media Center and the inability to remove video locations that you have added (or even default [...]

Monday, November 10th, 2008

Pause bug after screensaver activation is back.

A few months ago I posted the culprit that was causing Media Center to resume playback once the screensaver kicked in or after minimizing the Media Center window.  It was KB950126 - the cumulative update for June. Well, on October 14th (I believe), Microsoft released KB955519, which was supposed to fix the mess that KB950126 [...]

Friday, November 7th, 2008

Video Browser: A plugin not to be ignored.

Ever since I started using Media Center (even MCE), I’ve felt that the video library plugins available have just been missing something.  MyMovies filled in perfectly in the pre-Vista Media Center days, but it appears when a MCML version for it shows up, Windows 7 will be knocking on our door and who knows if [...]

Thursday, November 6th, 2008