Comments on: Flash in windows media center

By: Russel Waterford

Russel Waterford — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 07:23:07 +0000

Hi, I came across this post while looking for help with Microsoft Silverlight. I’ve recently changed browsers from Google Chrome to Mozilla Firefox 3.1. Now I seem to have a problem with loading websites that have Microsoft Silverlight. Everytime I go on a site that requires Microsoft Silverlight, my browser freezes and I get a “npctrl.dll” error. I can’t seem to find out how to fix the problem. Any aid getting Microsoft Silverlight to function is greatly appreciated! Thanks

By: Martin Millmore

Martin Millmore — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:36:44 +0000

Hi Martin,

it’s quite easy to create a plugin to add your own content. There are instructions here;

http://www.milliesoft.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=62:tunerfreemce-plugin-creation&catid=4:tunerfreemce&Itemid=18

in your case, I think that there is only one “program” you want to add, which is for the Live TV. To get the code to pick that up you can create a local xml file with the appropriate content in it and point the plugin to that. If you get stuck, e-mail me and I can help. Please send the plugin when it is done and I can add it to the site for others to use too.

By: Martin

Martin — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 16:26:10 +0000

How can I add extra “channels” ? I would like to be able to use Windows Media Center to let my children watch Smile of a Child TV on the television as we cannot afford satellite tv.

By: Martin Millmore

Martin Millmore — Thu, 21 May 2009 12:04:31 +0000

Thanks for alerting me to that. I hadn’t seen it before. Looks really good. I’ll bear it in mind for future.

By: James

James — Thu, 21 May 2009 10:41:54 +0000

any chance of integrating sling.com like you did with hulu? it has more content than hulu. i am asking here as it uses a flash player….

By: luis franco

luis franco — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 12:02:47 +0000

Hi. There is a online service that could probably be used to convert on-the-fly the flashvideos in avi format for viewing. Check http://vixy.net. Maybe you can make an arrangement with them for the service in tunerfreemce… …

Btw I’m interested in adding portuguese channels to your app. There are a few portuguese sites that could be used for the content.
Please send me an email if you’re interested and in guidelines in the best way to colaborate with you.

Best regards.

luis franco

By: RK Reddy

RK Reddy — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 22:05:59 +0000

Very good analysis i know microsoft want to bring silverlight in the place of flash.But still tey dont provide silverlight support in mce

By: Martin Millmore

Martin Millmore — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 20:35:23 +0000

Does it hang when you select a show or when you select an episode for the show? When you select an individual episode, it should navigate to the Hulu web site. If it isn’t doing that, it may mean that media center has been set to not display web content that is not suitable for media center.

The code is open source. The source code is available at sourceforge. See my main site for details.

By: Rolf

Rolf — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 20:07:48 +0000

I installed TunerFreeMCE and it doesn’t seem to load any Hulu.com content for me – the plugin just hangs when I select a show. Thought you’d want to know.

Great idea though; there’s a huge need for this sort of plugin. Have you ever considered open-sourcing it?

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