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tantryl - Thursday, Octolink Thanks glenn.Honestly, how would you expect EVERY format to support embedded CC and on the fly sequence removal? How could you expect hardware encoding support for any directshow enabled codec? You can't just throw a pre-encoded MPEG2 stream from the hardware into any encoder and expect real time results.

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Fire up your application of choice, select your codec and complain to the software maker that they don't have their own integrated EPG and automatic scheduling capabilities. If you want to record in the format of your choice with an XP MCE PC, no one is stopping you. Understand this: An MCE PC has one or more TV tuners and video capture cards in it and they will function exactly like any other PC with that hardware.

MCE isn't an interface to multiple video formats and types and simply wonld not function correctly if it were. You're clearly one seriously misinformed individual. Having to use the proprietary MS stuff with all their DRM garbage is unsuitable.' CZroe - Sunday, Octolink 'Windows MCE will never be any use for people serious about video until it allows you to select what codecs you want to use for encoding from all the DirectShow codecs installed on your system.The Media Center interface, My TV is the default selection Is that you're dropped into a fairly familiar interface. Regardless of which method you choose, the end result The green button on the remote or click on the green icon that looks like Launching the Media Center application is the same as before, you either use We have a screenshot of the new XP theme, Energy Blue: MCE2005 is configurable to start with or without the Media Center interface,īy default it is configured not to but changing it isn't a problem. The feature would be useful in some situations. Than what's offered in the actual Media Center UI, but we can see how The skins available are far less polished Want to hear next from your WMP10 Library. Where everyone can come up and interact with the playlist, choosing what they

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While most users won't have to install MCE 2005, we did.