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If you’re yet to discover the world of metadata, you’ll be surprised how rich you can make your Media Center experience courtesy of TV & Movie artwork, backdrops, episode guides, viewer ratings, cast and crew information and more. But how do you get all of this info, and do you have to spend hours collating it all? Nope. It’s easier than you think!
Part 8 of our Mac Mini Media Center guide shows you how.
We’re very close to finishing our Mac Mini Media Center project, and its time to open up Windows Media Center itself and get it configured for watching Live and Recorded TV, Videos, Photos, Music and a whole lot more.
Our Mac Mini Media Center series continues as we connect up Silicon Dust’s HDHomeRun Network Tuner, which allows simultaneous recording of two TV programmes, and places your antenna feed on the network, accessible by any PC, Mac or compatible device.
As our Mac Mini is going to be positioned in the lounge, powering the content viewed on the large screen TV, trying to control it with mouse and keyboard would not be the most fun. Windows Media Center is best controlled with a Media Center remote and that’s the subject of the next part of our how to series.
Our guide to creating a Mac Mini Media Center continues. We’ve installed Windows 7, but ensuring we can play the widest variety of file formats in the best quality possible requires a little bit of work. It’s time to enter the world of codecs! The previously impenetrable dark arts of codec configuration have been helped enormously by the release of codec packs, which come with easy to configure front ends. But ensuring our Mac Mini makes friends with an AV Receiver involves a little bit of persuasion. You want 1080P high definition video? 7.1 Surround Sound? Dolby Digital and DTS Audio? The Mac Mini can do it all. Find out how…
If you’ve been following our How to series on transforming the new Mac Mini into a kick ass Windows Media Center PC, then you’ll know that in Part 1 we installed and configured Mac OSX and installed 500 MB of updates for Snow Leopard, and in Part 2 we prepared the Mac’s hard drive for the installation for Windows 7, courtesy of Boot Camp Assistant.
If Parts 1 & 2 are complete, we must be at Part 3 and that means that our Mac Mini is waiting, arms outstretched, to receive Windows 7.
In the second part of our guide to transforming the new Mac Mini into a great Windows Media Center PC, we take a look at Mac OSX’s Boot Camp Assistant and repartitioning the Mac Mini’s hard drive to accommodate Windows 7.
There’s a saying that goes, “If you want a PC… get a Mac”. We’re putting the theory to the test over the next few weeks with a series of walkthroughs to transform Apple’s latest Mac Mini into a kick ass Media Center PC. In the first part of the series, we get the Mac set up and prepared to run Windows 7.
As I highlighted in our review of the new Apple TV, Cupertino’s latest media player is a fantastic piece of kit, as long as you’re happy to play in their walled garden. But if you’ve been waiting for a jailbreak to allow streaming to Apple TV from Windows Home Server, wait no more – thanks to WGS Forums, we’ve got it sorted.
Today, in our next Summer of Home Server project, we’re going to take a look at a brand new service called HomePipe, which allows the streaming of music, movies and photos from a PC, Mac or Windows Home Server over to a mobile device.
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