Microsoft Releases October Media Center Updates

re: Microsoft Releases October Media Center Updates

Jeff B — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:09:47 GMT

Hold on there, kiddies. Check out <www.avsforum.com/.../showthread.php and <thegreenbutton.com/.../304348.aspx> before popping that upgrade into your Vista machine.

re: Microsoft Releases October Media Center Updates

gidman — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 16:19:15 GMT

KB 955519 installed with the result that I had no picture, only sound. It said the install was successful but when I uninstalled the update everything went back to normal.

This applies to both Media Center and Media Player.

re: Microsoft Releases October Media Center Updates

Brett — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 13:20:35 GMT

Wow, so many new features. These updates just give us so much to look forward to. Now I won't get the DRM flags that ONLY occur in a Media Center HTPC. If I didn't go all in on this and buy 4 extenders and a new Dell so I could get cable card support, I would switch back to Sage in 30 seconds.

re: Microsoft Releases October Media Center Updates

KanyonKris — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 04:02:32 GMT

I'm running TV Pack over an existing Media Center (not even a fresh install). I checked the updates and found KB955519 (update for Media Center without the TV Pack) available to download and install, but it had not auto-installed. I checked the update log and was please to see that KB956147 (update for TV Pack) had auto-installed. So it looks like update is doing the right thing.

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re: Microsoft Releases October Media Center Updates

John Whittle — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 04:04:49 GMT

Any word on an ATI firmware update for DRM free recording?

re: Microsoft Releases October Media Center Updates

Eli — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 01:58:29 GMT

Does it just run the install without actually overwriting the files or does it overwrite the files? (it may detect the file on the system is newerso will just leave it there during the install)

re: Microsoft Releases October Media Center Updates

Fred — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 23:31:16 GMT

Anyone know why if you have clean install of Vista SP1 and TV Pack 2008, why the PRE-TV PACK KB955519 gets offered by Windows Update ? It did it with the previous cumulative Media Center Pack 950126.

It appears that all the files from TV Pack supersede the usual cumulative files.

I think its a Windows Update error, but 950126 and 955519 will still apply if you download and run them manually AFTER installing the TV Pack 2008 + 956147.

Chris do you know ?

Thanks.

re: Microsoft Releases October Media Center Updates

Jaxim — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 22:15:57 GMT

I'm going to hold off on downloading this. I installed the last cumulative update and it caused a black screen to appear after I stopped a video. I had to uninstall the update to resolve the issue. I see no mention in this October update that it fixes this bug, so I am definitely holding off on updating my machine.

re: Microsoft Releases October Media Center Updates

Brad — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 19:03:03 GMT

Hmm.. that first fix on KB95559 has been a long time waiting.

I haven't seen this issue in TV Pack, so I'll assume it was already squashed (I hope).