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Chapter 25: Mastering Windows Media Center

Play Slide Show

Plays a slide show using pictures in monitored folders. When you play a slide

show, any selected and queued music will continue to play. Use the channel +/–

buttons to move forward and backward through your pictures. Use the Stop but-

ton to exit the slide show.

Shuffle

Shuffles the play order of items in the Now Playing queue.

Repeat

Sets the Now Playing queue to repeat automatically.

Buy Music

Allows you to buy music from your default online store.

Working with TV + Movies

The TV + Movies menu allows you to play recorded TV shows saved to folders that

Windows Media Center is monitoring. You can set up TV options, and by clicking

Play DVD, you can play a DVD inserted into your computer’s DVD drive. If your

computer has two DVD drives, you can insert a DVD into either drive. However, if

Figure 25-8. Viewing music that is playing and queued to play

Navigating Windows Media Center

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DVDs are inserted into multiple drives, Windows Media Center plays the DVD in

the primary DVD drive. The primary DVD drive is determined according to the drive

letter, meaning that the DVD in drive D will play if drives D and E both have DVDs

inserted into them.

As Figure 25-9 shows, your recorded TV content is organized in much the same way

as it is in Windows Media Player. When you select a recorded TV show by clicking

it, you have the following options:

Play

Plays the recorded TV show. When the show is playing, you can use the con-

trols to manage playback. Click the Stop button to stop playing the show and go

back to the main menu.

Cast + More

Displays information about the cast and the show.

Delete

Permanently deletes the recorded TV show from your computer.

Burn CD/DVD

Burns the recorded TV show to a data CD/DVD or a Video DVD. See the “Burn-

ing Disks” section for more information.

The Recorded TV option lets you view and manage your favorite recorded TV con-

tent, as well as add TV content to your collection. You can also watch live TV from

this menu. To configure these options, you must have the required hardware. You

need a TV tuner card to watch live TV and a video capture card to record and man-

age your favorite TV shows.

When working with Recorded TV and Live TV, you can add recorded content

already scheduled and recorded for you to use. Each selection offers you the ability

to view the desired content by date recorded and by title. You may also want to view

the scheduled content to be recorded by the system so that you can see what pro-

gram will be recorded and the date and time of the scheduled recording for editing or

configuration.

Microsoft was nice enough to include some sample recorded content for you to view.

You can also add content you want to record, view scheduled recordings, and view

your collection of recorded content. You can view your content by thumbnails, the

date of the video recording, or the title of the content. Selecting any one of the

thumbnails listed will bring up the Movie Details menu, which allows you to play the

recorded show, view information about the cast, delete the recorded show, or burn

the recorded show to a CD/DVD.

The Live TV menu allows you to view live TV. If you want to use this feature, you

must have a TV tuner card installed in your machine. The submenu options avail-

able in this section include Recorded TV, Live TV, Guide, and Movie Guide, all of

which give you flexibility when managing and searching your TV content.