Category Archives: Media Centre

My XBMC Multi Room audio challenge.

Posted on March 8, 2010 by James

Recently I have successfully migrated away from SKY HD and from Freeview+ to an entirely XBMC based solution.  Most importantly this solution currently has a very high WAF .  My setup is built using XBMC live in an overly powerful … Continue reading →

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Media Centre – Update

Posted on November 24, 2007 by James

This morning, I flicked on the media centre to listen to some music, browsing to music library and the music is jumping all over the shop. What appeared to be happening, was media centre re scanning my library. This was … Continue reading →

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Media Centre

Posted on September 17, 2007 by James

The Zalman coolers have now been fitted, and the good news is the reduction is noise is quite substantial. The bad news is its not quite where I wanted it. All of the remaining noise is coming from the 3 … Continue reading →

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Shhhhh, Media Centre.

Posted on September 8, 2007 by James

So my media centre is now in place in the lounge, and is looking rather fabulous, even while in black. Why the manufacturers insist on changing colours from silver to black every no and then I don’t know.

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Media Centre Continued & Netgear DG834 VPN

Posted on September 5, 2007 by James

Yesterday I got Vista Ultimate installed on my media centre. Installation all very smooth, except vista not having the drivers for my SATA 150 controller (why not its about 3 years old). Apart from that the install is all pretty … Continue reading →

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Media PC, Silverstone LM16 & Geforce 6800 GTS

Posted on September 4, 2007 by James

Yesterday my silverstone LM16 Media PC case arrived, all very exciting. So last night I after getting back from City link I immediately tor apart my desktop tower case.

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Xbox 360 Media Extender

Posted on May 16, 2006 by James

Tags: xbox 360, media center extender, XVID So last night I rebuilt my PC with Media Center Edition, somthing I have been putting off for some time. Due to the epic nightmare it always turns out to be. Antics that … Continue reading →

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