I just downloaded the trial of Media Center 11 and am evaluating it for my needs. I have a HTPC running Beyond TV and Beyond Media. Beyond Media's audio interface is VERY elementary and quite badly programmed. I have 500 albums and it takes Beyond Media over 2 minutes to display all the album art...each time you open it! Sheeesh! You can't even browse by atrist-album so on and so on.
Anyway, I am very impressed with MC11, mostly with the theatre view. It is almost perfect and to be frank, this would be the view I would use 99% of the time. I want the 10 foot interface as this is in my rumpus room and I do not want to get out my mouse and keyboard.
Here is my problem...I have configured my firefly remote (RF remote from
www.snapstream.com) through xml files to control MC 11. It does a great job and I am very happy. The problem is the remote only works in the standard view. When I switch to theatre view, the remote does not work. If I switch back to the standard view, it works again. When I configure my firefly, I put in an xml file as a profile. So when my remote sees that MC11 is running, it runs the corresponding profile. "C:\Program Files\J River\Media Center 11\Media Center.exe"
Does anyone know why this doesn't work in theatre mode and what I could do so that it does? Does the theatre mode use a different .exe file that I would need to build another profile for?
(The remote will also not run in mini, windowed and full screen views either)
Any help would be greatly appreciated.