Is Media Center unneccesary?

I use Media Center with 007Shark codecs to control all my media stuff. And I don´t have any use to HTPC. Only digital media (movies, music concerts and musics).

I don´t see any reason to install a third part program to do what Windows do to me with quality and giving me satisfaction. If you will not use it to movies, the better solutions is the one that you posted. Disable it, and leave it in a corner.

Maybe some day in the future you´ll find a reason to use it, and it will be there, at hand. :)

whs said:

I never use it - don't like the controls. But it is not worth removing it. All you save is a very small bit of disk space. Just don't use it and change the associations (if it is associated to anything - like .dvr).

+1

I honestly do not think its worth removing. theres really nothing to be gained by doing so.


I, like everyone else, do not use it either.
I just have a different preference of alternates. ...
Most used would be ZUNE for my music, and NERO Showtime for Videos.

Shark007 said:

I find it utterly amazing that so many people who state they do not even use Media Center are actually in a Media Center specific forum in the 1st place, and not only reading about it, but posting here too!

Agreeed.

And you hear this from an old fan of Winamp (until Windows 7 arrives)

Shark007 said:

I find it utterly amazing that so many people who state they do not even use Media Center are actually in a Media Center specific forum in the 1st place, and not only reading about it, but posting here too!

i think you are readng this wrong. I for my part have tried to use it many times but found it to be very uncomfortable. I still sometimes use it via "Open with" because it fills the whole screen nicely. Else I really see no advantage.

I am sure the others who have commented have wrestled with it too at various times and found it to be unpractical for their daily use. And btw. the question in this thread was whether it can be deleted.

Shark007 said:

I find it utterly amazing that so many people who state they do not even use Media Center are actually in a Media Center specific forum in the 1st place, and not only reading about it, but posting here too!

Maybe they saw the post when they clicked "New Posts" in the menu.
that is how I found this post.

If you were to use my software, Media Center would not be letting you down.

WMC never "let me down". It is just utterly inconvenient to operate. And I fail to see how your codecs could change that. And yes, I found it under "new posts". We usually do not slice the forums as thin as you do.

Btw: Different question - how can I make WLMM work with .xesc files as input? I dread the Expression Encoder. It is so darn slow - even on an i7. And normally I edit the captures with WLMM anyhow - sometimes I use Machete.