Resolve Windows Media Center Problems In Windows 8 Consumer Preview

When it comes to Windows 8 Consumer Preview, move the sidebar back and forth. Click on the live tile labeled Media Center. If no such live tile shortcut exists on your Start screen, move the mouse pointer and hover it at the top right corner of the home screen. From the side pop up, select the icon labeled search. Enter Windows Media Center into the search space and hit the Enter key. It will now show up on the Application list. From there, you can launch it or choose to pin it to your Start screen. Now press the green button in the Windows Media Center IR remote. 

Are extenders supported on Windows Media Center?

Windows Media Center does support extenders. They support Xbox 360 extenders. You will have to reconfigure your extender with your WMC after each upgrade or else you will have issues with the Windows Media Center. 

Unsupported tuner configurations

Windows Media support Center will not support Monaco (MediaRoom/IPTV), Dragonfly (Dish), Draco (DIRECTV).

Some of the known issues on Windows Media Center

• Getting no search results when searching on WMC
• You will have issues with the search feature while using the Consumer Preview version on AMD64 version.
• Cannot Play Video message is displayed
• You will have trouble playing the video messages and games with the Microsoft WDDM 1.1 driver. Many graphics card manufacturers have reported this issue. Update your driver to fix the issues with the graphics card.
• Playing Live TV, Recorded TV, or other video files on Extender, playback will freeze
• Many users encountered the same issue when they used the Consumer preview version. As of now the issues has been fixed by the Windows 8 support. 
• Clicking on Live TV results in crash or Tuner Not Found
• The live TV feature on the consumer preview version did often crash and reported error. Win7 codec pack from Shark007 was found responsible for this. To fix this, uninstall the Shark007 codec pack and install Win8 codec pack from Shark007 website.
• File needed to display video are not installed or not working correctly is displayed after playback has been going for a while
• There is no fix available for Consumer Preview issues with certain hardware components. The final edition has no such issues. In that case, you may switch to the Windows 8 finished version. 
• Music/Photos/Videos are not showing up in their respective libraries in extender sessions
• This can be fixed by closing and restarting the extender session.

The steps briefed above will help you fix the issues with Windows 8 Display settings. For more assistance and help on the same, feel free to contact us on our support number.