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Title: After JRiver install pictures lost from Windows Media Centre
Post by: fobos8 on January 20, 2015, 03:11:39 pm
Hi All

I'm new to JRiver. I'm using it mainly for music and vids. I use Windows Media Centre still for TV and all our pictures.

Thing is after the JRiver install all of my pictures have disapeared from Windows Media Centre. I've tried doing a new install of JRiver and have made sure that only Audio and Video files are imported but still there's no images in Windows Media Centre.

What do I need to do?

Kind regards, Andrew
Title: Re: After JRiver install I lose all pictures from Windows Media Centre
Post by: Matt on January 20, 2015, 03:16:12 pm
That's a Windows Media Centre problem, and I don't think we'll have any idea.
Title: Re: After JRiver install I lose all pictures from Windows Media Centre
Post by: CountryBumkin on January 20, 2015, 03:18:07 pm
Do you see the images using JRiver?
Can you find the image files with Windows Explorer?  

- I'm trying to determine if/where the images are on your computer. If you can find them, I'm sure we can get you setup as you'd like.
Title: Re: After JRiver install I lose all pictures from Windows Media Centre
Post by: fobos8 on January 20, 2015, 03:23:52 pm
Hi - have sorted it - just  set JRiver not to auto-import anything from my MyPictures
Title: Re: After JRiver install pictures lost from Windows Media Centre
Post by: CountryBumkin on January 20, 2015, 04:49:36 pm
Glad you got it sorted out. It's still somewhat confusing as to what happened. When JRiver imports it doesn't actually move or change anything, it just reads the file properties and adds the location and properties to its Library. So it should not have changed anything with regards to whatever WMC is doing.
Title: Re: After JRiver install pictures lost from Windows Media Centre
Post by: Twit on January 20, 2015, 08:41:06 pm
Just in case any one else has this problem in the future, I have always solved this by installing the following reg file and rebooting.

http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/fixmediatypes.reg (http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/fixmediatypes.reg)

Somehow this info either gets lost or is replaced when I install MC and pictures don't show up in 7MC.

Simon.
Title: Re: After JRiver install pictures lost from Windows Media Centre
Post by: CountryBumkin on January 21, 2015, 05:42:25 am
I see what your talking about now. JRiver does change some File Associations in the registry. I thought it might only make the change if you have the "file Association box" checked in the MC Settings, but I unchecked some and restarted the computer and the registry associations did not revert back to the original config.  For me this is not an issue since I don't use WMC, but I see how this could be a concern to some.

(http://i921.photobucket.com/albums/ad54/mshumack/MCFileAssociations_zps50597781.jpg)
Title: Re: After JRiver install pictures lost from Windows Media Centre
Post by: fobos8 on February 03, 2015, 03:03:37 pm
although I have fixed my images  I still have a problem.

I have recorded TV files that were recorded with Windows Media Centre (.wtv files) . Since I installed JRiver they all have JRiver associated with them and are not showing up in Windows Media Centre.

Any idea what I need to do to fix this?
Title: Re: After JRiver install pictures lost from Windows Media Centre
Post by: ~OHM~ on February 03, 2015, 05:04:29 pm
change file association back to wmc
Title: Re: After JRiver install pictures lost from Windows Media Centre
Post by: CountryBumkin on February 04, 2015, 10:42:53 am
although I have fixed my images  I still have a problem.

I have recorded TV files that were recorded with Windows Media Centre (.wtv files) . Since I installed JRiver they all have JRiver associated with them and are not showing up in Windows Media Centre.

Any idea what I need to do to fix this?

Just curious - why are you using WMC when you have JRiver MC available?
Title: Re: After JRiver install pictures lost from Windows Media Centre
Post by: fobos8 on February 04, 2015, 01:14:19 pm
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Just curious - why are you using WMC when you have JRiver MC available?


Music and Vids in JRiver is amazing.  I'd love to use JRiver for everything but the TV section is full of bugs so I gave up with it
Title: Re: After JRiver install pictures lost from Windows Media Centre
Post by: CountryBumkin on February 04, 2015, 03:49:48 pm
Have you tried TV lately. There have been a lot of improvements. It works great for me (with an internal Hauppauge 2250 and a 950Q USB stick). I now get my EPG data from Zap2it rather than using the OTA and I get all the correct season and episode numbers now and the metadata looks good.
Title: Re: After JRiver install pictures lost from Windows Media Centre
Post by: fobos8 on February 05, 2015, 01:30:51 am
okay - I'll give it a go when I have a spare minute

Title: Re: After JRiver install pictures lost from Windows Media Centre
Post by: BartMan01 on February 05, 2015, 09:50:18 am
Just curious - why are you using WMC when you have JRiver MC available?

I use both - JRiver MC does not support encrypted channels, so you have to use WMC for those.  As opposed to having TV/DVR viewing split between two programs, it is simpler to use WMC for DVR/TV and MC for movies/archived non-encrypted shows.