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Installing “My Movies” for Multiple Zones Installing “My Movies” for multiple zones Revision 1.1, November 26’Th 2005. Getting “My Movies” installed for use on one Media Center is quite simple, but when getting a multiple zone environment some guidelines shall be followed. This document describes how to install and setup “My Movies” in multiple rooms, using the same movie database. The multiple zone environments can be achieved in two ways; either by installing and using “My Movies” on a single box running Microsoft Media Center Edition 2005, and connecting one or more Media Center extenders (or Xbox 360 consoles that features a Media Center extender) or by installing “My Movies” for multiple Media Center boxes, and pointing them to a shared database. Which solution to choose is up to the individual user – it depends on which types of movies you whish to play in secondary zones. In general it can be said that when installing a multiple zone environment using Media Center Extenders, the playback on the extenders are limited as it only supports some types of video files. When installing on multiple Media Center boxes you are not limited in playback – if each box can access the movies trough a network drive, you can play DVD’s both as VIDEO_TS folders or ISO’s, or you can play offline discs, by inserting the disc into the correct Media Center box – all of these are options you do not have with Media Center extenders. The Xbox 360 can play a DVD from it’s local DVD drive, but not from the Extender session, meaning that although you can browse offline DVD’s on the Xbox 360, you would have to leave the extender session to play it. Installing for Media Center extenders What are Media Center extenders? Media Center extenders are dvd-like boxes that can be placed in other rooms, and access the main Media Center box by either LAN or WLAN. These boxes can be acquired for amounts from $200 to $300, or they can be acquired as an add-on option for the Microsoft Xbox for about $75, or as part of the Xbox 360 (described on the following page). Media Center extenders enables fast user switching on you main Media Center box, and allows the extender to connect to the Media Center box trough terminal services giving access to all functionalities of the main Media Center box directly on the extenders – almost. What is the Xbox 360 Media Center extender? When Microsoft launched the Xbox 360 it had a Media Center extender built into it, and not only was it a full Media Center extender, it also has better features and specifications than the stand-alone extenders. In general this means that if you are to purchase a Media Center extender, the Xbox 360 Core System at $299 along with the universal remote ($30) add-on is the one to go for – it is a bit more pricy than the stand-alone extenders, but with much more features, and for the small extra price you get a gaming console included. What can the Xbox 360 extender do that the stand-alone extenders can’t? • It can play WMV HD video material in up to 720p. • Its interface is the same intensive rendering one as the Media Center box (features background and button animations), where the stand-alone extenders has a not as rich looking interface without animations. • It does not have a 6.5 m/bit limitation on MPEG2 video material. • It can output Dolby Digital 5.1 channel digital audio (AC3) Limitations The main problem/limitation with the Media Center extenders is that they will not play DVD’s in any flavor, nor will it play DIVX, XVID or other movies that uses a third party codec. This means that you would have to either re-encode your entire movie collection to a movie format supported by the extenders, and play this on both the main Media Center box, and on the extenders – otherwise you would have to store the main DVD movie along with a re- encoded version supported by the extenders, and “My Movies” will then pick up the correct movie for the active environment. Installing Installing and setting up “My Movies” for use with Media Center extenders is pretty strait forward – simply download and start the installer on the main Media Center box, and be sure to check the installation for “Everyone”, and not “Just me” (see screen dump below), as Media Center extenders connect with an individual user account for each extender, and therefore does not work when installing for “Just me”. After this installation “My Movies” is automatically available on both the main Media Center box, and on each connected extender. Connecting more extenders will also automatically give this extender access to “My Movies”. Adding movies Before adding movies to your collection, you need to choose how to store them – as with general “My Movies” installations, each movie must have its own movie folder, where a compatible movie file, iso image file* or VIDEO_TS folder must be located. As Media Center extenders log on to the main Media Center box, the local drives of this box is also available to the extender, one exception is automatically attached network drives – when attaching network drives, and setting these to automatically re-connect on startup, this setting is saved for the current user – and as the Media Center extenders each have their own individual user account, these drives are not connected for the Media Center extenders. This means that movies must be located on either local hard drives, or on UNC paths (\\server\share\folder). Because of the limited video playback abilities on Media Center extenders, you would have to decide which types of movies you whish to playback on the main Media Center box, and which you whish to playback on the extenders – this can either be a single video file encoded to support the extender, or it can be a local stored DVD as either a VIDEO_TS folder or a iso image file* for the main Media Center box, and a file encoded for extender for playback on these extenders. Offline discs are not supported for extenders, as these are real DVD discs located outside of your computer. The limitations for files compatible with stand-alone Media Center extenders are: Windows Media Video 9 Series (WMV files): • Maximum resolution of 720x480 • Maximum bit rate of 4 Mbps. Variable bit rate (VBR) encoding is supported; however, high peaks in the video bit rate (higher than 4 Mbps) may cause video glitches • Main profile • Video width and height should equal the aspect ratio specified in the file • Windows Media digital rights management (DRM) support up to Level 2000 MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 (MPG, MPEG or AVI files): • Standard definition • MPEG-1 layer I and II audio • Maximum bit rate of 6.5Mbps The limitation for files compatible with the Xbox 360 extender is: Windows Media Video 7, 8 or 9 (WMV files): • Maximum resolution of 1280x720 (720p), with 30 frames per second. MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 (MPG, MPEG or AVI files): • Maximum resolutions of 1920x1080 (1080i) • MPEG-1 layer I and II audio or AC-3 audio When adding movies to your movie collection, you use the “Edit collection” program found in your Windows Start menu in the “My Movies” folder to add these – online movies are added with a folder for “My Movies” to search on playback. When pressing “Watch” in “My Movies” on an online stored movie, “My Movies” search the given folder for movies compatible with the current environment, first it looks for DVD movies stored within a VIDEO_TS folder, secondly is looks for DVD iso image files*, and third for other movie files. This means that if you put in both a VIDEO_TS folder and a movie file compatible with the extender into the folder, “My Movies” will playback the DVD on the main Media Center box, and it the compatible movie file on the extenders – this way you can watch full quality DVD’s on your main Media Center box, while you can still watch them in encoded format on the extenders. If you only store a DVD as a VIDEO_TS folder, or iso image file* in the folder, “My Movies” will give you a message that no compatible video files were found when you try to playback the movie on the extender. If you store a file type that could be compatible with the extender, “My Movies” cannot see if the contents of the file are compatible with the extender, and it will try to playback the file – if the file is unsupported, your Media Center extender will give you a video error. * Iso images files require Daemon Tools to be installed for “My Movies” to mount them. Installing for multiple Media Center boxes Installing “My Movies” on multiple Media Center boxes, accessing the same “My Movies” database basically gives you the same options as the Media Center extender setup, without the limitations – although the setup and installation on the machines are more demanding, this goes for not only “My Movies”, but also the general Media Center machine, to make sure all machines can access the same music library, photo library, recorded tv and so on. The gain is that all of the boxes will be able to play all types of movies, with no limitations – you can play both online DVD’s as VIDEO_TS folders or iso image files*, divx files and generally all videos supported by Microsoft Media Center. Off cause this is also a more expansive solution, but if you chose a heavy configured machine for your main use, and light configured machines for secondary use, a solution like this can be achieved for not that much more than an extender setup.
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