VLC as a replacement to Windows MediaCenter

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Currently, Microsoft in its great wisdom has no support and looks to not be incorporating any support for MediaCenter on Windows Home Server. Also, MediaCenter's inability to store non-DRM content from Cable begs to question how hard is it to get what you want in this world?

Concept: 

 * A closet with a couple digital cable boxes that support 1394
 * A PC with WHS (Windows Home Server) on it, and a firewire port, and VLC
 * Several PCs and/or MediaCenter extenders in the house that can
     1. connect to the Server
     2. retrieve live and recorded content on it (live via multicast)
     3. modify the scheduled recordings

Server Build:

(This is not finalized yet, so please be patient if it doesn't work) 

 1. Install VLC (I'm still using 8.6i and will continue until I have a working 
    prototype as this seems to be a bit more stable than the 9.x binary when it 
    comes to video capture from DirectShow.)
 2. Install Timmoore's and Exdeus' firestb driver packages and executables. 
    I put the exdeus drives in the timmoore folder under a subfolder labeled
    exdeus-drivers.
 3. Update Tuner FriendlyName in Windows Registry.
 4. Install MCEServe.

--C. Stephan 16:14, 20 March 2009 (CET)

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