Category: Home and Media

Recently Viber started displaying ads in Windows Desktop version. I don’t have issues with non-intrusive ads that don’t interfere with user experience, but Viber ads cover a good part of contact panel and often are quite flashy images with questionable content (weight loss pills, Viagra, etc.)

Issue No sound in Media Portal watching live UK Freesat and Freevew HD TV channels that stream AAC sound. Resolution Download and install LAV audio filters Open Media Portal Configuration Go do Codecs and Renderer > TV Codecs  Next to LATM AAC audio: select LAV Audio Decoder

I have a Media PC that needs to ignore power on/off commands sent by Logitech Harmony remote (Media Centre profile) when the PC is switched on. The idea behind it is that when the PC on, sending IR power command doesn’t put it to sleep. But when the PC is off, IR power command will…

Issue Xbox One child account cannot play Terraria in multiplayer/online mode. When starting the game, “Online” option is greyed out and cannot be selected. If the child tried to join his friend’s game, the game starts but then immediately displays an error message “The game will end due to the Membership Content settings of one…

Issue Changes made to Microsoft Family children accounts on https://account.microsoft.com/family are not applied to Windows 10 PC.After logging in to the PC with a parent’s account I found following message in Settings > Accounts > Family and other users. We can’t connect to Microsoft family at the moment, so your family on this device might not be up…

There are few different ways you can move installed games from one hard drive to another without having to re-download them. The method I used involves manually moving the game folder to a new location and then creating NTFS Directory Junction to trick U-Play into thinking the game is still in its old location. I used…

My MP4Box GUI is a tool I normally use to combine individual video and audio tracks (h264, aac, etc.) into a valid mp4 file. My MP4Box GUI is just a GUI wrapper for a free command line utility called MP4Box. Usage is very simple – add all tracks into the main application window and click Mux button…

mkvextract.exe is a command-line tool that is part of MKVToolNix. mkvextract v8.3.0 can be downloaded from here. It allows to extract subtitles, audio, and other type of tracks from .mkv files. Syntax is pretty simple: mkvextract.exe tracks “D:\video.mkv” 1:”D:\track-1.aac” Where:D:\vide.mkv – Source file1 – Track number IDD:\track-1.aac – Destination file mkvextract manual can be found here. If you…

I have been Windows Media Centre user for many years. Since Microsoft have made it clear that they are abandoning WMC, I started looking into alternatives. At this point I use Plex as the main HTPC interface which works really well. Unfortunately, Plex doesn’t have any PVR capabilities so it can’t replace WMC on its own. For…

Microsoft seems to be determined to move everyone to the Cloud kicking and screaming. Windows 8 and Windows 10 have been making more and more difficult to use local user accounts. There is still an option to do this, but MS works pretty hard to hide this as well as they can. More recently, everyone wishing…

Minecraft for Windows 10 saves Words in following location: C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.MinecraftUWP_8wekyb3d8bbwe\ LocalState\games\com.mojang\minecraftWorldsAppData folder by default is hidden.

I have recently moved to Sony mirrorless camera and started using Capture One from Phase One. And here is a little issue that took me some time to figure out: When you select multiple images in Capture One browser and click Delete you would expect all of the images to be deleted. This was not happening to me,…