Slingbox functionality for Media Center

[Lyion]

Not sure where I got this from, but it's spiffy.

http://www.cepro.com/article/media_cent ... tionality/

The other new feature, called WebGuide, is a third-party application that does what Slingbox does, and a whole lot more. Like Slingbox, it is a time-shifting, place-shifting TV viewing solution, but it also lets users schedule TV recordings, access music collections, and in short do pretty much everything you can do with a Media Center … via any Web browser, whether inside the home or from a hotel room halfway around the world.

A labor of love by founder Doug Berrett, Web Guide has been highly lauded in Media Center circles, and practically free at $18 for a download. Now it is actually free. Just download it onto your Media Center, and begin accessing it from anything that has a Web browser, from a PC to a cell phone.

In fact, WebGuide does a few things that Media Center alone doesn’t do. For example, you can set up an RSS feed for your recorded TV shows, and access them with one click from a Sidebar gadget on your PC desktop.

The service is just one more reason to dump Slingbox and TiVo for that matter. TiVo’s remote access service is slow and laborious. Web Guide is almost as fast as being there.

Berrett has now joined Microsoft full time.

[Tikker]

tossica posted that yesterday, no?


webguide isn't new, it's on it's 4th full revision

[Lyion]

Probably. Webguide is now free, though, and the guy who made it works for MS.

I couldn't find the post so I reposted.

[Tikker]

i missed the part where webguide is free now

guess i'll be reinstalling it



I demo'd it about 6 months ago, and it's pretty nice

[Tikker]

for anyone that has mce with multiple tuners, you'd be silly not to also have webguide running for all your other tunerless boxes

[Tikker]

anyone fiddled around with this at all?

it's changed a bit since the last time I tested it, and I'm having issues with streaming live TV

getting previously recorded stuff to stream worked np, and live should work exactly the same (it just starts a recording, and then buffers the mpeg and streams it as it's being written)

[Lyion]

Mine installed and worked without a hitch. I've been running it since the original post, Tik

Live TV streaming is no issue. I have mine set at 1000KB/S

[Tikker]

I'll poke around with it some more, live tv streaming was the only thing I cared about

I'm at a bit of a loss as to why it's not working

[Lyion]

I had my streaming set to max and it sometimes would hiccup and die. I scaled the broadcast settings down and haven't had any further problems.

[Tikker]

the stream just never starts for me

doesn't matter which profile I use