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Movie reviews (2-8-12)

Jon — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 16:12:54 +0000

Since I haven’t posted in months, it may seem as though I’ve watched a ton of stuff. However, after I started compiling my list of what I’ve seen, I realized how little I actually had watched. I’ve seen a decent share of TV – mostly (awesome so far) and a little bit of Homeland, which more »

Media Browser 2.5.3 (Apollo SP1) pre-released.

Jon — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 15:32:01 +0000

If you’re a Media Browser Community Tracker member, you got early access to download the latest updated to the Media Browser plugin for Windows Media Center – version 2.5.3 or, also known as Apollo Service Pack 1. This release is primarily for bug fixes and you can read the entire changelog here. If you’re already more »

Media Browser 2.5.2 (Apollo) now available.

Jon — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 16:27:19 +0000

The Media Browser team has released version 2.5.2 as of last night. This release also officially marks the end of Microsoft Windows Vista Support – you will be required to have a Windows 7 system to use Media Browser from this version on. This release also introduces support for the movie.xml file, which will be more »

Splitting shared display out of UserSettingsPath in Media Browser.

Jon — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 15:41:57 +0000

I don’t know how many of you use the shared playstate and display settings in Media Browser, but I have for a long time. Basically, it allows you to place your playstate directory (for maintaining watched status and resume points) and display.db file (which holds your view configurations) within a share and then use the more »

Movie reviews (1-9-12)

Jon — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 16:41:47 +0000

I’ll probably have left a movie or two out since I’m terrible at keeping track over long periods of time, but I have racked up a pretty good list of movies that I’ve seen since last time. I had a lot of time off during the holidays and my wife had an extended break from more »

XBMC success! Then it is epic fail.

Jon — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 14:05:32 +0000

For the longest time I have tried to get something going with XBMC, but it’s usually some sort of file naming, directory structure, or metadata file format that gets in my way. After a few days of tinkering, I usually give up and wait until I can punish myself with it again. Well, as of more »

Some new stuff, but nothing terribly exciting.

Jon — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 15:21:27 +0000

While I was gone, I did acquire a few new items related to home theater. I wouldn’t get too excited about what any of them are, but they were all things I had wanted a while or just flat out ended up needing for one reason or another. Since family came to stay for the more »

Media Browser changing XML file name.

Jon — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 19:27:54 +0000

In the last update to the MyMovies application, the developer (Brian Binnerup) decided to encrypt all the created mymovies.xml files that can be created by its metadata manager. This is all fine and good, except, as you know, our beloved Media Browser also reads these files for its own metadata. So, for those of you more »

Alive…on life support.

Jon — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 19:04:10 +0000

I have rescued the site. I was able to shell in and get the database and FTP still worked, so I grabbed site-essential files and just now got it all mashed back together on a new image. I had a backup, but it failed the restore process, so I had to do a completely new more »

More new “old” toys.

Jon — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 20:03:13 +0000

So, we had this old dog of a print server at work that had been giving us problems because of it’s OS partition…after nearly 7 years of service, 10GB just wasn’t big enough for Windows 2003 Server and the accumulation of updates over that period of time. We bought a copy of EASUS Partition Master more »