cbrown89 Posted April 10, 2006 Share Posted April 10, 2006 Hey everybody, With boot camp becoming an instant success and Media Center changing the way people watch television and experience their media...Has anyone tried installing Media Center on the intel iMacs? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johan Posted April 10, 2006 Share Posted April 10, 2006 yess it is possible but only with a illigal super xp dvd it has all de different xp versions on it the real mce has two cd.. and it difficult to install Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pu7o Posted April 10, 2006 Share Posted April 10, 2006 You can legally make an MCE DVD copying the contents of the two CDs to a single DVD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chiefsalami Posted April 10, 2006 Share Posted April 10, 2006 That's right. Follow the MCE version of the XOM install instructions - that shows you how to combine the 2 MCE CDs into one DVD. Essentially, it just involves copying the contents of both discs to a burn folder, and then modifying the txtsetup.sif file in the \i386 directory to remove the references to the second disc. So the Windows Installer will never ask you for the second disc and will successfully copy all the files over. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ilkevinli Posted April 11, 2006 Share Posted April 11, 2006 There is a very easy way to install MCE 2005. All you have to do is put CD1 in the Mac drive and copy the contents of CD2 on a USB/Firewaire Hard drive. When it aks you to insert CD2, all you do is change the path location. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cbrown89 Posted April 11, 2006 Author Share Posted April 11, 2006 Thanks for the ideas now does it make sense to purchase MCE for XP or Vista when it comes out next year? Besides the fact that Vista MCE will have plenty of bugs the first couple of months/year or so is their any advantage to validate an XP MCE purchase NOW? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mac_newbie Posted April 11, 2006 Share Posted April 11, 2006 Hi, As a side note, is the Apple Remote Control (which comes with iMac) works with MCE 2005? Has anybody tried it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ilkevinli Posted April 11, 2006 Share Posted April 11, 2006 The remote won't work until Apple has drivers for the IR for Windows XP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex Oughton Posted April 12, 2006 Share Posted April 12, 2006 The remote won't work until Apple has drivers for the IR for Windows XP And even then it might not be mapped to the cursor/enter keys needed for media center to work. It may simply allow play/pause, skip, volume (as marked on the remote itself). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MOCKBA80 Posted April 14, 2006 Share Posted April 14, 2006 How would one go about remaping Apple Remote? Could it be done on Windows level or a plug-in for Media Center would be needed? With a plug-in one could hypothetically get "contextual mapping", i.e. have remote keys doing different things depending on what Media Center is doing, but it is not worth writing one if it is possible to remap Apple Remote to cursor keys within Windows. Clearly, 5 buttons is not enough. Any chances of using Media Center Remote with Mini's internal IR-receiver? Media Center Remote's IR-dongle is ugly, but works. It would be cool if one could use Microsoft remote with Mini's internal IR. Any technical reasons why it would be impossible? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MOCKBA80 Posted April 14, 2006 Share Posted April 14, 2006 Clearly, 5 buttons is not enough. Any chances of using Media Center Remote with Mini's internal IR-receiver? Media Center Remote's IR-dongle is ugly, but works. It would be cool if one could use Microsoft remote with Mini's internal IR. Any technical reasons why it would be impossible? The only way to look at using other remotes with Apple IR-receiver for now is on OSX, but IR stuff is buried very deep inside OSX. So how would one use other remotes on OSX with Apple IR-receiver? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AirmanPika Posted April 18, 2006 Share Posted April 18, 2006 As a heads up when merging the two CDs you don't have to make any files edits like in the XOM version. Reason the XOM version was edited was because it needed the XOM Video Driver and the SATA driver loaded during initial install. Bootcamp versions don't need this. Just copy the contents to 1 DVD and you are set. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moksha Posted April 18, 2006 Share Posted April 18, 2006 You need to edit it slightly, just to remove references to the second disk so the installer doesn't ask for the second disk and copies it all from the DVD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AirmanPika Posted April 18, 2006 Share Posted April 18, 2006 You need to edit it slightly, just to remove references to the second disk so the installer doesn't ask for the second disk and copies it all from the DVD. Actually you shouldn't even need to do that. If you look at a regular Windows XP Disc it references a 2nd CD too but it always checks the first CD anyway. I never edited out the CD2 references when I edited the SIF for the XOM version of the MCE DVD Install...at least I think I didn't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Veeoh Posted April 18, 2006 Share Posted April 18, 2006 i did the trick with the Firewire drive as CD2 on my Intel Dual Core Mac Mini and it works a treat. =V= Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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