Properly created and organised meta tags will transform a media collection from a dull list of text into a blazingly beautiful kaleidoscope of full-screen posters and cover-fl ow vistas. Meta tags are like human-created quantum particles: being both the dullest and most amazing thing for your media collection. That trick is getting your meta tags in order. So far we've looked at making more of WMC and we've taken it about as far as we're able, but there is one more trick that will benefit not just it, but any other media centre you might choose.

Thanks in advance for any answers you can provide.If you've stuck with us so far, congratulations, you should also be enjoying a much improved time with Windows Media Center but just like The Carpenters we've only just begun. TS MPEG-2 files)Ħ) Do you recommend formatting the HDD to be used for recording with 64K clusters? (this is my current configuration)ħ) Is there a plug-in to integrate PlayOn? Currently just use SageTV as Live TV and DVR, but also have PlayOn which integrates with SageTV through a plug-inġ) Given my hardware and tuners, would you recommend MP1 or MP2?Ģ) Should I keep the Schedules Direct EPG, or are the free options in MP as good? (Note that the Schedules Direct API is going to be changing shortly according to a SageTV forum post)ģ) Can the station/channel info be edited for display in the Guide? As an example, in SageTV I can edit the cable channel numbers for local stations to be the same as their OTA numbers (Channel 705 becomes Channel 5-1 (or 5.1))Ĥ) I saw some earlier forum posts regarding recording the Live TV buffer, did this ever get resolved/working?ĥ) Is there a way to import my current recorded programs (basically just.Harmony 650 Remote with FLIRC-USB receiver.HDHomeRun Prime cablecard tuner being used on network through wired LAN connection.Brand new build with AMD Ryzen 5 3400G APU, 16GB of DDR4 RAM running Windows 10 圆4.HTPC being used as server and client (would be single-seat for Media Portal) I'm not using any SageTV media extenders.I have a few questions about Media Portal, if you would indulge me: It's looking like SageTV and it's support is dying a slow death at this point so I am looking at alternatives.

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