Stream DVD movies to XBox 360 Media Center Extender

If you want full DVD quality backups to be stored on your network and viewed by the XBox 360 Media Center Extender, DVR-MS is the best file format. DVR-MS supports 5.1 surround sound and it’s video format is mpeg2 so there is no loss in video quality. Since there is no transcoding, conversions are quick [...]

Customize your WHIIST photo album title

There are a couple of quick and easy ways to customize your WHIIST photo album that I haven’t seen posted. The page default settings are located in default.aspx. To edit that file:

Using Windows Explorer open the directory where the photos are placed for the album.
Using Wordpad (or your favorite text editor) open default.aspx.

To change the [...]

Adding captions to WHIIST

I’ve seem a number of posts from Windows Home Server users asking to add captions to WHIIST. I’ve created a minor hack to enable captions to web pages hosted using WHIIST. This change involves replacing one of the ASP.NET script files found in the directory that photos are added.
Here are the steps to enable captions [...]

Welcome!

Welcome to the Media Serve blog. This blog will try to capture my experiences with distributing digital media locally over my home network and externally over Windows Home Server. I’ve found some tips and tricks along the way, hopefully others will find them useful as well.