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Play .MKV’s in Windows Media Center (WMC)

Play .MKV’s in Windows Media Center (WMC)

For a long time I had resisted converting my DVD and Blu-Ray disks into any other format because I didn’t want to lose any quality.  I had lived by this rule for a long time, and thankfully companies like QNAP and Thecus came to my storage rescue.  However, the day has come where the cost of storing all the extra garbage that comes along with these movies has opened my eyes to benefits conversions.  With that, I have began converting my movie collection to a format that allows me to lose all the excess fat, but keep my movie loss-less. Read More…

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The next window will ask you to name the task and select its options for performing the task.  Choose "When my computer starts" and click next.

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Next, populate your administrative credentials to run said task.

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You are going to want to open the advanced properties for this task at the next screen.

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From here, you want to navigate to the Settings tab and uncheck "Stop the task if it runs for:"

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Contratulations! You are finished.  Open a browser and Play with your new music server.

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In early 2000 I became increasingly frustrated with hardware review sites praising less than satisfactory products. The saying: “if you want something done right, do it yourself” applies here. I wasn’t satisfied, so I did it myself; and here we are years later.

4 Responses to Sockso Music Server on WHS

  1. Rob says:
    May 26, 2009 at 9:27 am

    Have same disconnect issue, setup sockso but when I try to access it from one of my other pc’s it maxes out the cpu on the HP media server which kills all connectivity to it. Have tried several times with no luck, can access it while rdped into media server, although cpu is still high. Gave up on it…

  2. matthewhotdude says:
    May 21, 2009 at 3:23 am

    Looks good But I set this up on my HP MediaSmart server and whenever I try to access Sockso from a remote computer it kills the network connection on the server, The router doesnt even detect the server?!? only way to correct this is a reboot…any suggestions?