{"id":10000731,"date":"2015-11-02T12:00:29","date_gmt":"2015-11-02T17:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techranker.net\/?p=4066"},"modified":"2022-06-25T14:17:54","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T18:17:54","slug":"windows-media-center-on-windows-10-via-hyper-v-vm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techquentin.com\/windows-media-center-on-windows-10-via-hyper-v-vm\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows Media Center on Windows 10 via Hyper-V VM?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/techquentin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Windows-Media-Center-on-Windows-10-via-Hyper-V-Virtual-Machine.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4067\" src=\"https:\/\/techquentin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Windows-Media-Center-on-Windows-10-via-Hyper-V-Virtual-Machine.jpg\" alt=\"Windows Media Center on Windows 10 via Hyper-V Virtual Machine\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" title=\"\"><\/a><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Click the image to enlarge it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been playing around with Windows 10 for a few days and, while I love the new OS, I do miss watching live TV on <strong>Windows Media Center<\/strong>. I used the <a href=\"\/shop\/a\/B004HKIB6E\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">HDHomeRun<\/a> media streamer in conjunction with WMC to watch and record live cable TV broadcasts, including premium channels. It worked great.<\/p>\n<p>I knew I would lose Windows Media Center when I upgraded to Windows 10 and was OK with that. I&#8217;m hoping a similar solution eventually gets developed by a third party developer.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, I thought I&#8217;d try to get Windows Media Center running on a virtual machine using Windows 10&#8217;s built in <strong>Hyper-V manager<\/strong>. Alas, I wasn&#8217;t able to get it to work. Here are the problems I ran into:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>When connected to the VM via remote desktop and attempted to watch the sample video in WMC, I get a message stating that Windows Media Center cannot play video over a remote desktop connection. Note that I was able to watch and hear a YouTube over RDP with no problem.<\/li>\n<li>When I try to watch the sample video in WMC by accessing the VM via the Hyper-V Manager, I get a video error stating that the files needed to display video are not installed or are not working correctly.<\/li>\n<li>Even if I were able to get past these problems, I was also unable to successfully complete the Digital Cable Advisor setup that would allow me to watch cable TV. When you run the system analyzer, a test failure occurs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Oh well.<\/p>\n<p>While running Windows Media Center on Windows 10 was an epic fail, at least I learned how to set up virtual machines using Windows 10 Hyper-V. It&#8217;s surprisingly easy to do and I already have a few plans for using them. Thus, the effort wasn&#8217;t a total waste of time. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<h2>Do you also miss Windows Media Center?<\/h2>\n<p>Do you have any ideas about how to fix the issues I mentioned above? Have you come up with any workarounds? Are you using a WMC alternative on Windows 10 to watch and record cable TV? Please share your thoughts in the comments section below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I tried to get Windows Media Center running on Windows 10 via a Hyper-V virtual machine. See what I tried, what didn&#8217;t work, and possible workarounds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10000935,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[134],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techquentin.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10000731"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techquentin.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techquentin.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techquentin.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techquentin.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10000731"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/techquentin.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10000731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10000773,"href":"https:\/\/techquentin.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10000731\/revisions\/10000773"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techquentin.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10000935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techquentin.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10000731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techquentin.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10000731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techquentin.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10000731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}