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Merlin

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)

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!
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DDW
 
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
 
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!
Click to expand...

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 :-(
 
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