Add-In Update: TV Manager 1.0

By on August 29, 2008 in Add-ins & Apps, Digital Media Receivers, Windows Home Server, Windows Media Center

Brent Friedman’s free add-in, TV Manager is finally out of beta and has been released to the web with a sparkly 1.0 against it.

As many of you will know, TV Manager automatically moves Recorded TV files from your Media Center machine over to Windows Home Server for management and storage.

Here’s the details from Brent:

The biggest feature of TV Manager is the ability to watch your recordings in Media Center as if they were sitting in your Media Center record path.

You can delete recordings from the Windows Home Server Console or using Media Center. You can also play the recordings on non-Media Center PCs using the Windows Home Server Console or Windows Explorer.

TV Manager is free of charge and the client works with Windows XP Media Center 2005 and Vista Media Center. The TV Manager add-in works with or without Windows Home Server Power Pack 1.

Changes Since The Last Beta:

  • Fix: TV Manager Service setting permissions.
  • Fix: Compatibility with limited user accounts.
  • Fix: Launch recordings straight from the Windows Home Server Console.
  • Fix: Changed how recordings were moved (to fix ghost file issue) but lost the ability to monitor progress percentage.
  • New: Added Media Center Extender compatibility.
  • New: TV Manager Add-In interface redone.
  • New: Experimental ComSkip feature (disabled by default)
  • New: Regenerate the Xml in case of cache corruption without tester.exe.
  • Small things were changed and fixed.


Download: TV Manager 1.0


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  • Jerry Fowler

    I submitted this on another forum on this site, but think it should have been here.

    I tried to install TV Manager into my WHS system and received the error

    Service “TV Manager” (TVManager) failed to start. Verify that you have sufficient privileges to start system services.

    Any ideas why? I tried installing it via the Home Server Console and by Remote Desktop Service. When I cancel installation I get this error.

    The selected Add-in failed to install. The error code was 1603. Please contact the Add-in author for assistance.

    Thanks,

    Jerry Fowler
    very new to WHS, but not new to computers.

  • David James

    @Jerry Fowler -

    Jerry,

    had the same problem myself. Looking at the windows event log after remote desktop logging into my whs. Found that the install routine was looking for the shared folder “Recorded TV”.

    I simply created this folder using the Windows Home Server Console, and re-ran the TV Manager add-in install.

    All worked.

    Hope this helps you out.