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Big picture app is unavailable in Australia? Link doesn't work for me. Also the standard News app actually is really nice. Unfortunately you can't add or remove sources.
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4 Day Weekend posted:Big picture app is unavailable in Australia? Link doesn't work for me. You can? Right click in the app and there is a sources button.
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Oct 28, 2012 03:23
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Is there a good DVR app that can replace Windows Media Center?
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Oct 28, 2012 03:39
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Jerk McJerkface posted:Is there a good DVR app that can replace Windows Media Center? Check Engadget posts from today, Microsoft is giving Media Center away for free to W8 Pro owners
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Oct 28, 2012 03:40
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Startacus posted:You can? Right click in the app and there is a sources button. How do you modify them?
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Oct 28, 2012 03:45
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Aatrek posted:Check Engadget posts from today, Microsoft is giving Media Center away for free to W8 Pro owners Yeah, I know. I have that, but it's not really been updated in a while, and I'm looking for something better and Metro themed.
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Oct 28, 2012 03:46
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4 Day Weekend posted:How do you modify them? Touche.... (I'm retarded)
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Oct 28, 2012 03:48
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Food Network In the Kitchen - $1.99 Pretty cool app. Has Featured Recipes (currently Halloween), Recipe Collections, How-To Videos. You can search by chef or ingredient and filter it down further by difficulty or cook time. Has a favorites and shopping list feature. Also has a built in timer and unit converter if you feel like bringing your device into the kitchen with you. (Seems like it was made with that in mind since you can't copy & paste or share any of the stuff in the app) http://apps.microsoft.com/webpdp/app/9947486a-78d4-4130-b4f3-7add2dc735f3   (Snap only works until you go to view a recipe then it slides out and pushes whatever you were looking at into snap)
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Oct 28, 2012 04:09
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Jerk McJerkface posted:Yeah, I know. I have that, but it's not really been updated in a while, and I'm looking for something better and Metro themed. I just wish they would make Windows RT be able to be set as a Media Extender. The only thing stopping me from getting a Surface is that I want to be able to use my networked tuner. Sudden Loud Noise fucked around with this message at 05:55 on Oct 28, 2012 |
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Oct 28, 2012 05:50
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Wow. That I never thought of but would have been sick. Unfortunately windows rt may be a bit too powerful for them to permit that. Most of what is/isn't done with media center is by regulation and pressure from the cablecard standards body, and the fact that the content providers for cable tv are still horribly out of touch and paranoid people might, you know, be able actually use/enjoy their content in W way they don't have 1000% control over. Not that the tech isn't there to do it, they probably just don't want to permit it. WinRT may be powerful enough they worry about it being a vulnerability. That's why early on the once existent beta functionality to use a normal pc as a media center extender was axed, eternally ticking off every mce power user years down the line.
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Oct 28, 2012 06:04
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GoatSeeGuy posted:As a cable cutter, the Xbox SmartGlass intrigues me but everything I see just mentions purchased (I assume from the Xbox store) videos, does anyone know of you can add the media collection you have to stream to an Xbox? Yeah, you can just start watching something in the built in video player and say "play to" and "xbox 360" and it will stream to that ala airplay. I've tested it out with my own stuff, I would assuming that Windows 8 can play back natively it can stream, but not sure.
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Oct 28, 2012 07:23
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Maneki Neko posted:Yeah, you can just start watching something in the built in video player and say "play to" and "xbox 360" and it will stream to that ala airplay. I've tested it out with my own stuff, I would assuming that Windows 8 can play back natively it can stream, but not sure. Right now I'm using Air Video Server and an iPad connected to my TV. Works great, but I'd like to use a remote so if the Xbox can do the same thing it would be worth switching.
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Oct 28, 2012 08:39
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GoatSeeGuy posted:Right now I'm using Air Video Server and an iPad connected to my TV. Works great, but I'd like to use a remote so if the Xbox can do the same thing it would be worth switching. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVg7E8vYzu4 And buy one of these so that you can control the Xbox as well as TV stuff like volume. http://www.xbox.com/en-US/xbox360/accessories/controllers/Xbox360MediaRemote Though if you already have a universal remote it very likely works with the Xbox. Also I've assumed you mean stream stuff from a Windows machine.
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spidoman posted:I just wish they would make Windows RT be able to be set as a Media Extender. The only thing stopping me from getting a Surface is that I want to be able to use my networked tuner. Hold on. So if I have an Windows 8 HTPC with Windows Media Center, and a TV tunner (which I do), I can use an Xbox as a media extender, and have the XBox play the OTA TV from the HTPC? Also can it search and play from the OTA recordings?
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Jerk McJerkface posted:Hold on. So if I have an Windows 8 HTPC with Windows Media Center, and a TV tunner (which I do), I can use an Xbox as a media extender, and have the XBox play the OTA TV from the HTPC? Also can it search and play from the OTA recordings? Uh welcome to forever ago buddy. Yes, it basically is almost identical to the media center interface on the PC, I have a htpc stashed in my house and only an Xbox on every TV. Stuff records in one place and pipes out to each Xbox on demand. Better late than never! This is a derail I guess now.
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I love the big picture and want the app, but for the life of me i can't find it in the app store (I can find it on the site on chrome, but not in the store app). don't tell me there's some bullshit "sorry, you're in canada" crap? EDIT: When i go to "view in store" via IE (I use chrome...) it just takes me to the default page 
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Oct 28, 2012 15:41
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Guitarchitect posted:I love the big picture and want the app, but for the life of me i can't find it in the app store (I can find it on the site on chrome, but not in the store app). don't tell me there's some bullshit "sorry, you're in canada" crap?
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Oct 28, 2012 16:34
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OldPueblo posted:Uh welcome to forever ago buddy. Yes, it basically is almost identical to the media center interface on the PC, I have a htpc stashed in my house and only an Xbox on every TV. Stuff records in one place and pipes out to each Xbox on demand. Better late than never! This is a derail I guess now. But you can't watch live OTA TV on the Xbox, right? I've always known you can stream recordings, but live TV?
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Oct 28, 2012 17:42
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Jerk McJerkface posted:But you can't watch live OTA TV on the Xbox, right? I've always known you can stream recordings, but live TV? You can watch live tv. Even cablecard encrypted stuff. When sitting in my bedroom in front of the Xbox set as media center extender I can not tell I'm not on my full tv. The interface and every tv, live or recorded or guide, feature is identical. As far as diy dvr goes, media center is the bomb, and Xbox is a sick way to go multi room with it. I literally own the bedroom Xbox for this use exclusively. Microsoft knows this and lets me configure the Xbox to boot directly into media center. Edit: and to be roughly on topic, its a bummer they didn't improve media center much/any in windows 8. It isn't any worse, they just kindof left it be. I think they may be waiting to see if any iptv standards ever get out there, though.
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Oct 28, 2012 17:45
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The Wikipedia app is pretty good! http://apps.microsoft.com/webpdp/app/6b80bf54-1a31-4651-acce-59a5b5c2b7c8
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Oct 28, 2012 19:17
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Jerk McJerkface posted:But you can't watch live OTA TV on the Xbox, right? I've always known you can stream recordings, but live TV? How did you not know about this?  There are huge buttons called Live TV and Guide
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Oct 28, 2012 19:48
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hitze posted:How did you not know about this? I don't have and XBox and have never used one as a Media Extender. I looked up online about it, and only found it mentioned that you can use the Xbox to playback recordings, but not watch live tv.
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Do you guys know when the windows store updates with new apps? Is it a set day or do they put new apps as they approve them?
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Oct 28, 2012 20:11
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The developer portal says up to 4 hours between the signing phase and showing up on the store, so I'd say they're grouped and submitted every 4 hours in a bunch to the public store.
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Oct 28, 2012 20:27
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Jerk McJerkface posted:I don't have and XBox and have never used one as a Media Extender. I looked up online about it, and only found it mentioned that you can use the Xbox to playback recordings, but not watch live tv. Just to wrap this up, with a standard card tuner you'll only be able to get the expanded basic cable stations. If you have a digital cable box your best bet is to go with cablecard so that you can also access all the subscription/HD channels. I rent a cablcecard for like $2 a month and then had to buy a device that accepts cablecard. Google it and stuff, but it really is an awesome overall design. I can record/watch two streams simultaneously of any cable contect anywhere in my house without a single cable HD box. You can then return your cable boxes and save a little monthly (I'm guessing).
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Oct 28, 2012 21:44
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It seems like some people are unable to hit the Try button in the app store. Considering my pay apps aren't games or easyware, I'm surprised that according to the reports around 2/3rd buy my apps immediately without trial.
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Oct 28, 2012 22:39
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Combat Pretzel posted:It seems like some people are unable to hit the Try button in the app store. Considering my pay apps aren't games or easyware, I'm surprised that according to the reports around 2/3rd buy my apps immediately without trial. I am going to buy your DOF app sometime soon. Do you have other apps in the works?
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Oct 28, 2012 23:18
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Heh, thanks! Yeah, I've had them linked on the first page. They're all x86 currently, until I can test them on ARM. In case you're interested in the synthesizer, you might want to hold off, I've something better coming.
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Windows Phone app has been added. http://apps.microsoft.com/webpdp/app/0e0fbaf6-fd99-4046-b494-9ce469ae3009 quote:Description  - edit And Trello (http://apps.microsoft.com/webpdp/app/bd4fa6c1-0994-4caa-b0e1-04eec135667b) was added. Haven't tested it yet but it seems like it could be interesting. Call Me Charlie fucked around with this message at 06:09 on Oct 29, 2012 |
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Oct 29, 2012 05:42
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Combat Pretzel posted:That's true. I never understood why people keep using these, tho. MP4 containers work well enough, and never devices do support them just fine. MKV will never be adopted and M2TS I don't even know what's good for except digital satellite stream ripping (I think). For MKV containers at least, anime fansubbers use it a LOT. It's more flexible about what kind of video, audio, subtitle, and font pack files you pack into it. With the latter two, fansubbers can do some fancy stuff with subtitles all without having to burn it into the video. However, that means a simple remux or transcode won't work properly because you'll leave out the subtitles and there are few transcoding programs that can do it flawlessly. Handbrake is the best program that I've used for transcoding anime and burning the subtitles into the video. It's still not perfect because some advanced formatting will not render properly into the video and even with an Intel Core i5-2500K overclocked to 3.7 GHz a 22 minute long 720p video still takes about 7 minutes. So, it takes a lot of time and hard drive space to transcode everything and Handbrake's queuing setup is somewhat cumbersome and slow to setup. Although just MKV support on a 3rd-party video player alone won't help with watching anime since the video player will also need to be able to handle embedded fonts and advanced formatting. I've gone through numerous 3rd-party video players on Android that supports playing MKVs and none of them supported embedded fonts and advanced formatting. The best they did was just show the subtitles as plain text. Although there is VLC, the last time I dabbled with it it wasn't very stable to test its subtitle rendering capabilities. On top of that, every fansubber encoder has switched to using Hi10p which improves video quality and reducing file size at the cost of breaking hardware-based decoding including GPU decoding and increasing the amount of power needed for software decoding. Considering that most modern ARM processors are in the similar league in processing as the Intel Atom and AMD E- and Z-series processors, 720p video with software decoding is going to be a crap shoot on Windows RT, Intel Atom-powered, and AMD Z-series-powered tablets. Basically, if you want to watch anime on a tablet without having to dick around with transcoding, a Core i5 powered tablet is your best bet but you're stuck using a Windows 7 video player which isn't exactly finger friendly. I've tried transcoding for the past couple years first on my Windows phone and then my AMD Z-series-powered tablet and it was always a pain in the asss. I am completely done with it. However, the battery life is still a bit of an issue if I get a Core i5-powered tablet. The faster fansubbing dies at the hands of licensing companies putting out a high quality streaming service that can undercut the quality and turnover rate from the live Japanese broadcast, the better. Plus, both the Japanese studio and the licensing company will get more money because TL,DR version: fansubs  PS: This ended up being more bitchy (and longer) than I intended. If anyone takes offense to anything other than that fansubs are a pain in the rear end to watch on anything other than a Windows or OSX desktop or laptop, don't go too out of your way to refute those other statements.
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Sporadic posted:Windows Phone app has been added. Now just need Windows Phone 8 to come out. 
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Factor Mystic posted:Drag down from the top and drag it to the other monitor. With the keyboard, Win+PgUp/PgDn. If you are asking if you can have a metro app up on monitor #2 and the start screen or another metro app up on monitor #1 at the same time: nope. This is a real bummer. I've got the HDMI connected to the TV in my hotel room, and I would really like to show the Videos app output to the TV while the rest of the metro interface is still on the tablet.
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Edward IV posted:For MKV containers at least, anime fansubbers use it a LOT. It's more flexible about what kind of video, audio, subtitle, and font pack files you pack into it. With the latter two, fansubbers can do some fancy stuff with subtitles all without having to burn it into the video. However, that means a simple remux or transcode won't work properly because you'll leave out the subtitles and there are few transcoding programs that can do it flawlessly. I am taking offense to the fact that you seem to care a lot about animes.
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Yeah, let's not do anymore 7-paragraphs-about-anime derails. The dev of IRC Explorer was super quick to respond to my inquiry about URL links, and they said it should be in the next update that should hit on Friday 
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The Windows Phone app is already getting a bad rap for not supporting WP7.x.
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Combat Pretzel posted:The Windows Phone app is already getting a bad rap for not supporting WP7.x. Are those complaints really surprising, considering that only WP7.x phones exist yet?
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Oct 29, 2012 15:58
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Has anyone created a Something Awful tile to be used as a website shortcut yet? Just the grenade with the trademark dark blue background or something.
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Oct 29, 2012 17:26
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ufarn posted:Has anyone created a Something Awful tile to be used as a website shortcut yet? Just the grenade with the trademark dark blue background or something. Assuming I still have power, I'll make one tonight.
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Oct 29, 2012 18:47
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Is there really no way to force MetroTwit to use the desktop version of Chrome? Does it have to use the Metro one?
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Skeezy posted:Is there really no way to force MetroTwit to use the desktop version of Chrome? Does it have to use the Metro one? I suspect this is because you are inside of Metro when you click the link. It probably sucks on the desktop but on the flip-side how annoyed would you be on a tablet if you were in metro and it took you to the desktop? Or it could ask you every time which would also be annoying. Can't win 'em all, why not just use a desktop twitter client if you want to be on the desktop? I imagine some of these growing pains will go away once things settle with additional options or something, we'll see.
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