TVSquad

So you've got a PC running Windows Media Center in the living room, but you'd like to be able to watch stored recordings on other PCs in the house. Sure, you could set up a system of media center extenders, but what if you're running MCE on those machines as well? Wouldn't it be nice to just share files over the network?

Doug Knox has developed a program that lets you do just that. MCE 2005 - Share Recorded TV does just what its name suggests, it lets you share recorded programs between Windows MCE 2005 machines. It has not been tested on Vista yet.

In order to share videos, all you have to do is check a tab that says "allow other Media Center PCs to access yoru Recorded TV Content," add a list of shared folders, and reboot. On the machine you'd like to use to watch those files, you run the same program and add the shared folders.

[via Ian Dixon]