Media Center Extenders?
Now that it seems that support for Media Center Extenders is wanning, I need to figure out what I want to do about our setup. I have been pretty happy with Media Center Extenders for thing that are recorded on the Media Center. But, for other things the Extenders don’t do that well.
I have not had good luck getting movies to play on our Extenders with MyMovies. Also, I haven’t gotten vmcPlayIt to work, in order to play Hulu and Netflix content on the extenders.
I was thinking ing that what I want is a simple DNLA audio and video player. This would support playing content recorded via the TV tuners. Also, since PlayOn is a DNLA server, these players could play Hulu and Netflix content. Also, with Windows 7, other content would be transcoded.
The only problems that I see with this solution are:
- I don’t think that it will be possible to play live TV, or control the tuners.
- Hopefully it would be easy to configure the heirarchy of the content. For example, I would want recorded content to grouped by series. Also, I would want to see the meta data for the content.
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