Comments on: Zune and Media Center

By: Nik

Nik — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 21:06:13 +0000

Useful information!

By: fert

fert — Wed, 21 May 2008 13:59:57 +0000

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By: Robin Smith

Robin Smith — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 14:14:31 +0000

I have a question, and I hope one of you can help me. My daughter just received a late Christmas present… a Zune. Well, we went to the Zune website and downloaded the software. However, our computer has Windows XP Media Center Edition software 2002 version. After 6 hours of trying to figure out why our computer wasn’t “seeing or recognizing” the Zune, and 1 phone call to the Zune support line, I’ve found out that we need to upgrade our operating system to Windows XP Media Center 2005 Edition. So I’m researching if I can upgrade our computer directly from the Microsoft website, or if I need to go out and purchase the upgrade from a store. What worries me is that C-Net had an article that this upgrade is not for purchase, but only preinstalled on Media center PC’s. Is this true? If it’s not true, can someone please give me guidance on how to upgrade to the 2005 version? I’d like to get this done this week, otherwise I’ll have a very discouraged 13 year old daughter…. which isn’t always fun!!

Thank you
Robin Smith

By: Jim

Jim — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 00:45:07 +0000

Paul,

Because Microsoft included their own MPEG2 decoder in Vista which is what is used when transcoding the files to WMV for the Zune. On XP, Microsoft has no control over what MPEG2 decoder you have installed. Coincidentally, the MS decoder in Vista would crash Windows Media Player when transcoding high definition DVR-MS files with 5.1 channel audio on my Vista computer. It didn’t start working correctly until I installed the PureVideo MPEG2 decoder from Nvidia. By the way, I’m syncing my content to a Gigabeat S60 not a Zune.

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 13:50:02 +0000

I hear people with Vista can sync DVR-MS videos with their Zune but not people with XP. Can anybody tell me why?

By: Kegley

Kegley — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 14:57:20 +0000

The simplest way I have found to get recorded content onto your Zune is to use Beyond TV as your PVR software. It has a feature called show-squeeze that will automatically run against selected shows after they have finished recording. I’ve discovered if I select the “Creative Zen Vision” preset for the video size I can simply drag and drop the video files without conversion.

By: Pmcdon

Pmcdon — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 08:32:53 +0000

Why pay money when you can do it for free.
Druid 1.0 is specifically designed for dvr-ms to Zune transcoding.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/o8mz4j

By: Hugo Leijtens

Hugo Leijtens — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 22:30:41 +0000

What I use is Mobile TV Center (www.makayama.com). This software converts the recorded television to zune directly. The software works like a charm, and the files are small when they are on the Zune.

By: Noles78

Noles78 — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 08:52:02 +0000

It seems like on all of these forums there is someone saying they can just drag and drop there video files into Zune with no problems. Some are even saying they’re doing it with Windows Media Center files… How is this possible? Does anyone really know? I’d pay good money for a program to put tv shows etc from WMC… Who’s trustworthy though?

By: Ry Jones

Ry Jones — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 17:27:40 +0000

I don’t get it, I just drag and drop dvr-ms files into the Zune software. it transcodes and syncs them fine, and they play back a-ok.