Category: Home and Media

Every time something is blocked, Windows 8 Family Safety displays pop-up in the right top corner, accompanied by a notification sound. Whether this is desired behavior or not, there is no way to disable this feature. But you can make it less annoying. First of all, check what is being blocked (either logged as a child or in…

Issue Trying to save mp4 (H.264) video processed with VideoReDo fails with error “Error setting output options“. Video was originally encoded with Handbrake.

Playlist Creating a Winamp playlist to play all files in a particular folder. Open notepad. Type full path of your folder. i.e. D:\Music Save file with extension .m3u. i.e. mymusic.m3u

Issue Logitech Harmony 900 remote controller configured to work as MCE Keyboard. All button presses works within Windows, however, Intelliremote does not detect any presses and Intelliremote status icon does not blink on a key press. Solution Go to Windows services (services.msc) Stop and Disable service called Intelliservice. Restart Intelliremote

Issue HTPC with Melloware Intelliremote software. After pressing a power button on a remote control, computer wakes up and after a few seconds goes back into a sleep mode. Solution Resolved by using sleep.exe instead of default sleep command. Simply map your remote’s power button via Intelliremote to sleep.exe executable. More info about sleep.exe can…

Plex Media Center has 10 foot interface and can be fully controlled with a remote. However, with some setups, on-screen virtual keyboard may not respond to arrow key presses on a remote making it impossible to enter any text without a keyboard.

Default TV Signal Setup often misses many channels available on UK freesat. If only couple of channels are missing, you can use Single Transponder Scan to scan a particular transponder for your missing channel:Tasks > Settings > TV > TV Signal > Satellite Transponder Scan > Single Transponder ScanProvide transponder details for your channel and…

.flac (Free Lossless Audio Codec) is a lossless audio compression codec. It’s a great format to backup your CDs without loosing any quality. A lot of PC audio players can play .flac files directly, but some portable MP3 players and smartphones often refuse to play .flac natively. In this case you may need to convert…

Download latest version xbmc-iplayerv2 add-on from code.google.comVersion 2.4.14 which I tested on XBMC v11.0 (Eden) can be downloaded from here. In XBMC got to System > Settings > Add-ons > Install from zip file Navigate to the downloaded iPlayer-v2.4.14.zip and install the plug-in Go to Videos > Add-ons where you will find a new entry…

Sometimes you may find that XBMC add-on cannot be uninstalled normal way via System > Add-ons as Uninstall option is greyed out. This often happens because add-on is installed in a system wide directory. In this case add-on can be deleted manually from the add-on directory. Location can vary depending on your Operating System and…

Download latest version xbmc-itv-player add-on from code.google.comVersion 1.0.7 which I tested on XBMC v11.0 (Eden) can be downloaded from here. In XBMC got to System > Settings > Add-ons > Install from zip file Navigate to the downloaded plugin.video.itv_1.0.7.zip and install the plugin Go to Videos > Add-ons where you will find a new entry…

MKV (matroska video) files often come with multiple audio and subtitle tracks. Not all video players allow to select which audio and subtitle track you want to play.Free Media Player Classic – Home Cinema is my favourite video player and it does allow to switch audio and subtitle tracks in .mkv files. You can download…