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What “How To” topics would you like to see covered?

I am working on a series of “How To” articles that will either be blog posts, part of The Media Center Show or videos and I wanted to get your feedback on what subjects would be worth tackling.

When I asked the question on Twitter I got some good suggestions which included DVD streaming and QAM so I would like to solicit your feedback. What “How To” topics would you like to see, and what topics do you think would benefit beginners?

Posted Jul 29 2008, 11:20 AM by Ian Dixon

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LDJ wrote re: What “How To” topics would you like to see covered?
on 07-29-2008 12:33 PM

Some how-to on commercial skipping in media center would be good. I’ve set it up before, but its never really worked correctly…But please make them applicable to all versions of MCE as some of use are still happily using Xp MCE :)

Jason wrote re: What “How To” topics would you like to see covered?
on 07-29-2008 4:28 PM

I would like information on setting up tuners.  More than 2 tuners, QAM, etc.

Jason

Shark64 wrote re: What “How To” topics would you like to see covered?
on 07-29-2008 4:30 PM

A guide on how to make all the various formats play in MC.  Out of the box MC will not play .ISO file or .MKV files just to name two, but these can be made to play within MC.  It would be nice if all file formats played natively, but until that day, a guide to making each file type play would be helpful to everyone.

EZRyder wrote re: What “How To” topics would you like to see covered?
on 07-29-2008 7:50 PM

A guide to Cable / Sky / Freesat / Freeview in MCE (UK rather than US centric). Also it would be nice on not just concentrating on video, but audio formats, such as FLAC.

pablo_paul wrote re: What “How To” topics would you like to see covered?
on 07-29-2008 10:01 PM

A freesat guide would be good even if it is only for getting the mpeg2 streams in media centre.

i'd agree with the audio formats i can get apple mp4 playing on my Hp HDX with various codecs/hacks but for the life of me i can't get it to work on my main HTPC igave up and converted everything to mp3.

what about a webguide tutorial including configuration for streaming over the net i still haven't got this working.

Ian Dixon wrote re: What “How To” topics would you like to see covered?
on 07-30-2008 8:35 AM

great suggestions, keep them coming

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