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I'm new to Vista and Media Centre. I have installed an Extender so I can
access Media Centre in another room - it sems to be woking okay.

I listen to BBC radio via the internet and want to be able to listen to it
via the extender and TV in the other room, but I can't find any way to
achieve this. Also I would like to have a screensaver type slide show
display on tha TV while I'm listening.

Can anyone help? I'm reasonable computer literate, but assume I know
nothing about Vista and Media Centre!

(crossposted to microsoft.public.windows.mediacenter)

On Sat, 22 Nov 2008 09:02:01 -0800, Merlin
<> wrote:

>I'm new to Vista and Media Centre. I have installed an Extender so I can
>access Media Centre in another room - it sems to be woking okay.
>
>I listen to BBC radio via the internet and want to be able to listen to it
>via the extender and TV in the other room, but I can't find any way to
>achieve this. Also I would like to have a screensaver type slide show
>display on tha TV while I'm listening.
>
>Can anyone help? I'm reasonable computer literate, but assume I know
>nothing about Vista and Media Centre!
>

DDW
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DDW <> wrote:
>
> (crossposted to microsoft.public.windows.mediacenter)
>
> On Sat, 22 Nov 2008 09:02:01 -0800, Merlin
> <> wrote:
>
>> I'm new to Vista and Media Centre. I have installed an Extender so I
>> can access Media Centre in another room - it sems to be woking okay.
>>
>> I listen to BBC radio via the internet and want to be able to listen
>> to it via the extender and TV in the other room, but I can't find any
>> way to achieve this. Also I would like to have a screensaver type
>> slide show display on tha TV while I'm listening.
>>
>> Can anyone help? I'm reasonable computer literate, but assume I know
>> nothing about Vista and Media Centre!


Try this:

http://windowsmediacenter.blogspot.c...n-for-mce.html

ss.

Thanks. I've downloaded and installed the plugin, as suggested. Now what?

I can't see it anywhere in Media Centre. Where should I look for it and
what do i need to do to actually play my selected station?

Please bear in mind that I know nothing about Media Centre, so what might be
blindingly obvious to you will be a revelation to me!

Thanks

"Synapse Syndrome" wrote:

> DDW <> wrote:
> >
> > (crossposted to microsoft.public.windows.mediacenter)
> >
> > On Sat, 22 Nov 2008 09:02:01 -0800, Merlin
> > <> wrote:
> >
> >> I'm new to Vista and Media Centre. I have installed an Extender so I
> >> can access Media Centre in another room - it sems to be woking okay.
> >>
> >> I listen to BBC radio via the internet and want to be able to listen
> >> to it via the extender and TV in the other room, but I can't find any
> >> way to achieve this. Also I would like to have a screensaver type
> >> slide show display on tha TV while I'm listening.
> >>
> >> Can anyone help? I'm reasonable computer literate, but assume I know
> >> nothing about Vista and Media Centre!
>
>
> Try this:
>
> http://windowsmediacenter.blogspot.c...n-for-mce.html
>
> ss.
>
>
>

Merlin <> wrote:

<top-posting macro corrected>

>>>> I'm new to Vista and Media Centre. I have installed an Extender so I
>>>> can access Media Centre in another room - it sems to be woking okay.
>>>>
>>>> I listen to BBC radio via the internet and want to be able to listen
>>>> to it via the extender and TV in the other room, but I can't find any
>>>> way to achieve this. Also I would like to have a screensaver type
>>>> slide show display on tha TV while I'm listening.
>>>>
>>>> Can anyone help? I'm reasonable computer literate, but assume I know
>>>> nothing about Vista and Media Centre!
>>
>>
>> Try this:
>>
>> http://windowsmediacenter.blogspot.c...lug-in-for-mce.
>> html
>
> Thanks. I've downloaded and installed the plugin, as suggested. Now
> what?
>
> I can't see it anywhere in Media Centre. Where should I look for it and
> what do i need to do to actually play my selected station?
>
> Please bear in mind that I know nothing about Media Centre, so what
> might be blindingly obvious to you will be a revelation to me!
>

You should see it in the Music section of the main menu in Media Centre.

ss.

That looks pretty cool - thanks.

I get Freeview, so listen to BBC radio using that. It has the advantage that
you can record it in the same way as you record TV.

I just wish I could find a reliable (and preferably free) way to convert the
dvr-ms files to MP3 or WAV/WMA. I have tried DVR-MS toolbox, but it is so big
and confusing (trying to to all sorts of other things) and all the services
etc it introdcues seem to make my PC unreliable - with the only way to
resolve the problem being to uninstall. I have Movie maker and Nero 7, which
don't seem to work with just audio, so I just can't quite find a good way to
do it :-(

"Synapse Syndrome" wrote:

> DDW <> wrote:
> >
> > (crossposted to microsoft.public.windows.mediacenter)
> >
> > On Sat, 22 Nov 2008 09:02:01 -0800, Merlin
> > <> wrote:
> >
> >> I'm new to Vista and Media Centre. I have installed an Extender so I
> >> can access Media Centre in another room - it sems to be woking okay.
> >>
> >> I listen to BBC radio via the internet and want to be able to listen
> >> to it via the extender and TV in the other room, but I can't find any
> >> way to achieve this. Also I would like to have a screensaver type
> >> slide show display on tha TV while I'm listening.
> >>
> >> Can anyone help? I'm reasonable computer literate, but assume I know
> >> nothing about Vista and Media Centre!
>
>
> Try this:
>
> http://windowsmediacenter.blogspot.c...n-for-mce.html
>
> ss.
>
>
>

Eric,

I swear by 'radiotime.com'. I haven't seen any other site of it's kind that
is as good. Plus there is a Media Center plug-in to boot.

Site: http://radiotime.com/Search.aspx?query=bbc

Plug-in: http://radiotime.com/partners/mediacenter.aspx

Drew

"Eric Baines" <> wrote in message
news:99275B14-B2E2-471C-86ED-...
> That looks pretty cool - thanks.
>
> I get Freeview, so listen to BBC radio using that. It has the advantage
> that
> you can record it in the same way as you record TV.
>
> I just wish I could find a reliable (and preferably free) way to convert
> the
> dvr-ms files to MP3 or WAV/WMA. I have tried DVR-MS toolbox, but it is so
> big
> and confusing (trying to to all sorts of other things) and all the
> services
> etc it introdcues seem to make my PC unreliable - with the only way to
> resolve the problem being to uninstall. I have Movie maker and Nero 7,
> which
> don't seem to work with just audio, so I just can't quite find a good way
> to
> do it :-(
>
> "Synapse Syndrome" wrote:
>
>> DDW <> wrote:
>> >
>> > (crossposted to microsoft.public.windows.mediacenter)
>> >
>> > On Sat, 22 Nov 2008 09:02:01 -0800, Merlin
>> > <> wrote:
>> >
>> >> I'm new to Vista and Media Centre. I have installed an Extender so I
>> >> can access Media Centre in another room - it sems to be woking okay.
>> >>
>> >> I listen to BBC radio via the internet and want to be able to listen
>> >> to it via the extender and TV in the other room, but I can't find any
>> >> way to achieve this. Also I would like to have a screensaver type
>> >> slide show display on tha TV while I'm listening.
>> >>
>> >> Can anyone help? I'm reasonable computer literate, but assume I know
>> >> nothing about Vista and Media Centre!
>>
>>
>> Try this:
>>
>> http://windowsmediacenter.blogspot.c...n-for-mce.html
>>
>> ss.
>>
>>
>>