
1. Select a series to collect.
2. Choose a location to collect the series.

3. Choose a Media Center computer to watch the series on.
August 24, 2008
This Vista Media Center Add-in
is integrated into your Windows Home Server network via the Recorded TV
Manager Add-in for Windows Home Server to provide complete access to your
entire recorded TV collection.
Use the Vista Media Center 10ft interface to browse, play and delete series recordings wherever they reside on the network.
New functionality in the build:
IMPORTANT: This software will only run on Windows Home Server networks which have Recorded TV Manager Add-in for Windows Home Server already installed and functioning. See Prerequisites.
Note: This is Beta software and contains errors. See Known Problems With This Build for a discussion of these errors.
In order for this Vista Media Center add-in to run on a client computer, the following conditions must be true:
Download and Install
If you have Beta 1 (MCECollections - Play Next) installed, please use the Control Panel to uninstall that version first.
Download and install the following msi file on the client computer:
RecordedTVManagerVMCAddinInstaller.en-us.msi (906KB)
The installer will register the application with Media Center and add a Play Next entry point on the Recorded TV menu strip. It will also add an entry point on the More Programs page which, for now, just opens the same Play Next page.
The first time you access the Play Next page, if the "loading collections" page does not appear in a reasonable amount of time, backspace and then restart Play Next.
If you try to run MCECollections on a Vista system which does not have Recorded TV Manager WHS Client installed, you will get a Media Center dialog which says, "This add-in requires Recorded TV Manager WHS Client" and the add-in will not load.
Every known episode has a checkmark attribute associated with it. Every episode is either checked or not-checked. The basic meaning of the checked attribute is "this episode has been watched." Episodes are checked automatically when they are deleted from either the Play Next page or the Browse Episodes page. There is a series-level option called Check On Play which can be set through the Checked Episodes in the client application. If that option is set, then the episode will be automatically checked when played from either the Play Next or Browse pages.
Checkmarks can be toggled on or off from the Checked Episodes page. Use the Checked Episodes in the Client application for more options and editing features.
The following steps are required in order to use Recorded TV Manager on a Vista Media Center Extender:
To enable the Extender to see recordings on the Windows Home Server:
The Series Info Database keeps track of all known series recordings and your viewing history.
Developer's Note: The update mechanisms are still evolving and I will post more information here over time.
The Vista Media Center Add-in does not directly access the Series Info database. Instead, the software issues "Series Update Requests" which are processed as follows:
If neither of these programs is running, the series update request will not be processed.