iPlayer - 4 on Demand - ITV Catchup interface for Vista Media Center - TunerfreeMCE
I have come across what could the best Media Center Add On ever.
This is TunerFreeMCE written by Martin Millmore (Milliesoft)
This will allow you to watch all BBC / Channel 4 and ITV “watch online” content directly on your Vista Media Center.
The BBC have been quite luke warm about supporting Windows Media Centre for some time now - they had some news video available in Windows Media Centre 2005 online showcase, but it was a bit hit and miss as to whether or not it worked. iPlayer on the other hand is a fantastic media delivery system, but has only really been written for desk top machines, not machines connected to your TV - which in my opinion has to be the obvious market. Imagine how annoyed I was when I read that Wii and PS3 users could get access to iPlayer too. That was just too much for me, so I decided to write a Vista MCE interface for iPlayer. - www.milliesoft.co.uk
I’ve only had this installed for a day so i’m still testing it….there are a few minor issues, although it seems the software is still in development (current version 1.4.1) I managed to start an ITV stream with ease, the BBC ones though seem a little sluggish.
I’ve also checked this from within Media Center Extender on my Xbox 360 and it goes some of the way to working. Its not watchable by any means yet…
Big thanks to Martin for putting in the time to get this going…
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Posted on June 27th, 2008 at 4:15 pm