We Got Served

Brent Friedman’s free add-in, TV Manager is finally out of beta and has been released to the web with a sparkly 1.0 against it.

As many of you will know, TV Manager automatically moves Recorded TV files from your Media Center machine over to Windows Home Server for management and storage.

Here’s the details from Brent:

The biggest feature of TV Manager is the ability to watch your recordings in Media Center as if they were sitting in your Media Center record path.

You can delete recordings from the Windows Home Server Console or using Media Center. You can also play the recordings on non-Media Center PCs using the Windows Home Server Console or Windows Explorer.

TV Manager is free of charge and the client works with Windows XP Media Center 2005 and Vista Media Center. The TV Manager add-in works with or without Windows Home Server Power Pack 1.

Changes Since The Last Beta:

• Fix: TV Manager Service setting permissions.
• Fix: Compatibility with limited user accounts.
• Fix: Launch recordings straight from the Windows Home Server Console.
• Fix: Changed how recordings were moved (to fix ghost file issue) but lost the ability to monitor progress percentage.
• New: Added Media Center Extender compatibility.
• New: TV Manager Add-In interface redone.
• New: Experimental ComSkip feature (disabled by default)
• New: Regenerate the Xml in case of cache corruption without tester.exe.
• Small things were changed and fixed.

Download: TV Manager 1.0