Have an Xbox 360 and a MCE? Thinking about setting them up together to get Media Center Extender (MCX) working? Here are some resources:
Dave an XL1 owner has sent me a few emails and I recently checked out his blog. A few posts caught my eye:
I got an email from a user who had an issue with their .MPG videos showing up in My Videos on their MCE but not showing up on their MCX. The problem is very likely due to permissions. The easiest way to check if it’s a permission problem is to copy (not move) one of the .MPGs in question into the Shared Video directory and see if it shows up on the MCX.
I’ve heard reports of connectivity issues between the Sony XL1 system and the XL1 changer. We’re aware of the issues, there appears to be potential problem with sbp2port.sys, the 1394 stack, and we’re examining potential fixes. I’ll let you know if/when a fix becomes available.
The other day someone wrote me wondering why the couldn’t have be watching the football game in MCE but listening to music from Media Player. I incorrectly assumed it was a Media Center limitation but in Larry Osterman’s blog about Volume control in Vista he explains the changes being made to enable app volume control in Vista, but first starts us off on an audio architecture history leason:
Before Vista, all of the controls available to applications were system-wide – when you changed the volume using the wave volume APIs, you changed the hardware volume, thus effecting all the applications in the system. The problem with this is that for the vast majority of applications, this was exactly the wrong behavior. This behavior was a legacy of the old Windows 3.1 audio architecture, where you could only have one application playing audio at a time. In that situation, there was only one hardware volume, so the behavior made sense.
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