windows 7 MC skips forward and backward, get any point in a recording

To get to any point in a Rec TV show simply type in the mins and hit play, it goes instantly forward or backward to that point. I.E to get to 33mins into a recording type 33 and hit play and no matter where you are it goes to the 33min mark. Works on AVI's too, Very nice. 
Could have saved myself a lot of keypresses if I had known this years ago.

some other ones (and yes they're all pretty undiscoverable):

typing the mins & secs and then ffwd or rwd will add or subtract that amount of time.

type 6 followed by skip button, will skip 6 times. (so 3 mins) (same thing for skip back)

411 more info will show a debug view of technical details of whats in use (multiple screens visible via left and right arrows) 

The ffwd/rwd & skip/replay buttons in the guide grid jump forward/back 6/12 hours.

holding down the skip button will bring up the thumb nails on the seek bar and your can then skip forward / replay back to the spot you want and press play

skip multiples of 30 seconds in windows 7 media center

http://www.xpmediacentre.com.au/community/windows-7-media-center-software/36815-new-skip-feature-win-7-rc.html#post255593

xbox 360 as windows 7 media center extender

Bought a xbox 360 arcade off ebay (jasper model). I have it connected via xbox vga cable at 1024x768 to a projector. Picture quality is excellent although I notice when streaming a 720p content I noticed pixellation, I wonder if this was due to network cable issue. Will replace this in the future if it recures again.

Connecting to the main media center was a no brainer, all I needed to do is to enter the numbers displayed on my xbox and enter in on the main media center.

Once they are connected, it looks like Windows 7 passes all the media info back to the xbox, which took a minute or two.

Movie playback was good, there was an initial 2-3 seconds buffering when streaming media. Initially there were a few hickups which I am sure is caused by the low quality cable I used between the switch and the xbox 360. Playback of recorded tv and mkv media does not need any connection to xbox live. However when I tried to play an mp4 file, I was prompted to download a 4MB file. Therefore you will need an unbanned xbox 360 for this to work (which is why I got one in the first place)

Therefore, if you have a main media center in your living room, it's a cheap and easy investment to just buy xbox 360 arcade as extenders (which retails for AU300) that works out of the box.

Once the n wireless adapter is out, you can even run one without a cable.

smartq 7 suspend problem workaround - resuspend after 2 hours

I have done a little poking about on this and have come to some conclusions.
Firstly, I haven't done comprehensive testing yet, but the following seems to get around the unreliable re-suspend described above. Replacing

  Code:

if [ x"$(cat /sys/devices/platform/hhtech_gpio/wk_status)" = x"1" ]; then
   sudo pm-suspend
fi

with

  Code:

if [ x"$(cat /sys/devices/platform/hhtech_gpio/wk_status)" = x"1" ]; then
   echo mem >/sys/power/state
fi

in /etc/pm/sleep.d/xresume should send the smartq back to sleep after its 2 hour wakeup. (I think there is probably some race condition provoked by calling pm-suspend from within pm-suspend, and the following just prompts the kernel to suspend without invoking the support script). This is still a bit of a nasty kludge, but seems like a workable solution.

Windows 7 MC codec

http://shark007.net/win7codecs.html

Windows 7 MC change skip time

http://www.hack7mc.com/2009/04/changing-media-center-skip-intervals-with-registry-files.html

smartq 7 win CE battery meter

If you want a really good power and memory management tool then use Wolfgang Rolke WR-Tools ResInfo (http://www.wolfgang-rolke.de/wince) . For a excellent review read this review on hpcfactor.com: http://www.hpcfactor.com/qlink/?linkID=91

To download my SmartQ modified version: http://rapidshare.com/files/279817853/ResInfo.ARM.300.cab