Making Media Center (Vista) start live TV at once?

mkk · Apr 15, 2007, 09:53 PM

Media Center has certainly breathed life into my plain TV card using digital terrestrial. I have googled and found many command line switches, but none that makes Media Center start in live TV mode right away, rather than having me navigate the menu every time to start viewing TV, which is all I do with Media Center. Maybe someone here knows?

In case there's any way to disable parts of Media Center I'd be interested to know about that too, just because it has so much else in it that I won't ever use.

andrewpayne · Apr 25, 2007, 04:38 PM

Vista's Media Center: Command Line Parameters

These Command Line Switches launches Windows Media Center and cause it to navigate directly to one of the built-in experiences:

%SystemRoot%\ehome\ehshell.exe /directmedia:discplayback [COLOR=#ff0000]- Begins playback of the disc in the drive[/COLOR]
%SystemRoot%\ehome\ehshell.exe /homepage:VideoFullscreen.xml /PushStartPage:True[COLOR=#ff0000] - Live TV[/COLOR]
%SystemRoot%\ehome\ehshell.exe /homepage:VideoGuide.xml /PushStartPage:True[COLOR=#ff0000] - TV Guide[/COLOR]
%SystemRoot%\ehome\ehshell.exe /homepage:RecordedTV.BrowsePage.xml /PushStartPage:True[COLOR=#ff0000] - Recorded TV[/COLOR]
%SystemRoot%\ehome\ehshell.exe /homepage:VideoToBeRecorded.xml /PushStartPage:True[COLOR=#ff0000] - Scheduled Recordings[/COLOR]
%SystemRoot%\ehome\ehshell.exe /homepage:Radio.BrowsePage.xml /PushStartPage:True[COLOR=#ff0000] - Radio[/COLOR]
%SystemRoot%\ehome\ehshell.exe /homepage:Radio.xml[COLOR=#ff0000] - FM Radio[/COLOR]
%SystemRoot%\ehome\ehshell.exe /homepage:MusicBrowsePage.xml /PushStartPage:True[COLOR=#ff0000] - Music Library[/COLOR]
%SystemRoot%\ehome\ehshell.exe /homepage:VideosBrowsePage.xml /PushStartPage:True[COLOR=#ff0000] - Video Library[/COLOR]
%SystemRoot%\ehome\ehshell.exe /homepage:PhotosBrowsePage.xml /PushStartPage:True[COLOR=#ff0000] - Picture Library[/COLOR]
%SystemRoot%\ehome\ehshell.exe /homepage:Options.Home.xml /PushStartPage:True[COLOR=#ff0000] - Settings Menu[/COLOR]

mkk · Apr 25, 2007, 06:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by andrewpayne

/homepage:VideoFullscreen.xml /PushStartPage:True

Perfect! Thanks.

Monkeyboy · Apr 29, 2007, 09:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by andrewpayne

Vista's Media Center: Command Line Parameters

These Command Line Switches launches Windows Media Center and cause it to navigate directly to one of the built-in experiences:

%SystemRoot%\ehome\ehshell.exe /directmedia:discplayback [COLOR=#ff0000]- Begins playback of the disc in the drive[/COLOR]
%SystemRoot%\ehome\ehshell.exe /homepage:VideoFullscreen.xml /PushStartPage:True[COLOR=#ff0000] - Live TV[/COLOR]
%SystemRoot%\ehome\ehshell.exe /homepage:VideoGuide.xml /PushStartPage:True[COLOR=#ff0000] - TV Guide[/COLOR]
%SystemRoot%\ehome\ehshell.exe /homepage:RecordedTV.BrowsePage.xml /PushStartPage:True[COLOR=#ff0000] - Recorded TV[/COLOR]
%SystemRoot%\ehome\ehshell.exe /homepage:VideoToBeRecorded.xml /PushStartPage:True[COLOR=#ff0000] - Scheduled Recordings[/COLOR]
%SystemRoot%\ehome\ehshell.exe /homepage:Radio.BrowsePage.xml /PushStartPage:True[COLOR=#ff0000] - Radio[/COLOR]
%SystemRoot%\ehome\ehshell.exe /homepage:Radio.xml[COLOR=#ff0000] - FM Radio[/COLOR]
%SystemRoot%\ehome\ehshell.exe /homepage:MusicBrowsePage.xml /PushStartPage:True[COLOR=#ff0000] - Music Library[/COLOR]
%SystemRoot%\ehome\ehshell.exe /homepage:VideosBrowsePage.xml /PushStartPage:True[COLOR=#ff0000] - Video Library[/COLOR]
%SystemRoot%\ehome\ehshell.exe /homepage:PhotosBrowsePage.xml /PushStartPage:True[COLOR=#ff0000] - Picture Library[/COLOR]
%SystemRoot%\ehome\ehshell.exe /homepage:Options.Home.xml /PushStartPage:True[COLOR=#ff0000] - Settings Menu[/COLOR]

Very useful - thanks a lot!

Apr 15, 2007, 09:53 PM	#1
mkk Cthulhu/Dagon 2012 Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Gefle, Sweden Posts: 4,495 Rep Power: 132 System Specs	Making Media Center (Vista) start live TV at once? Media Center has certainly breathed life into my plain TV card using digital terrestrial. I have googled and found many command line switches, but none that makes Media Center start in live TV mode right away, rather than having me navigate the menu every time to start viewing TV, which is all I do with Media Center. Maybe someone here knows? In case there's any way to disable parts of Media Center I'd be interested to know about that too, just because it has so much else in it that I won't ever use. Last edited by mkk; Apr 15, 2007 at 09:58 PM.

Apr 25, 2007, 04:38 PM	#2
andrewpayne DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 1 Rep Power: 0	Vista's Media Center: Command Line Parameters These Command Line Switches launches Windows Media Center and cause it to navigate directly to one of the built-in experiences: %SystemRoot%\ehome\ehshell.exe /directmedia:discplayback [COLOR=#ff0000]- Begins playback of the disc in the drive[/COLOR] %SystemRoot%\ehome\ehshell.exe /homepage:VideoFullscreen.xml /PushStartPage:True[COLOR=#ff0000] - Live TV[/COLOR] %SystemRoot%\ehome\ehshell.exe /homepage:VideoGuide.xml /PushStartPage:True[COLOR=#ff0000] - TV Guide[/COLOR] %SystemRoot%\ehome\ehshell.exe /homepage:RecordedTV.BrowsePage.xml /PushStartPage:True[COLOR=#ff0000] - Recorded TV[/COLOR] %SystemRoot%\ehome\ehshell.exe /homepage:VideoToBeRecorded.xml /PushStartPage:True[COLOR=#ff0000] - Scheduled Recordings[/COLOR] %SystemRoot%\ehome\ehshell.exe /homepage:Radio.BrowsePage.xml /PushStartPage:True[COLOR=#ff0000] - Radio[/COLOR] %SystemRoot%\ehome\ehshell.exe /homepage:Radio.xml[COLOR=#ff0000] - FM Radio[/COLOR] %SystemRoot%\ehome\ehshell.exe /homepage:MusicBrowsePage.xml /PushStartPage:True[COLOR=#ff0000] - Music Library[/COLOR] %SystemRoot%\ehome\ehshell.exe /homepage:VideosBrowsePage.xml /PushStartPage:True[COLOR=#ff0000] - Video Library[/COLOR] %SystemRoot%\ehome\ehshell.exe /homepage:PhotosBrowsePage.xml /PushStartPage:True[COLOR=#ff0000] - Picture Library[/COLOR] %SystemRoot%\ehome\ehshell.exe /homepage:Options.Home.xml /PushStartPage:True[COLOR=#ff0000] - Settings Menu[/COLOR]