DMA2200 and Windows Media Centre

Hi All,
I've just purchased one of these, and am already having WMC problems - which a quick look through this forum suggests is not uncommon!
Anyhow, I'm hoping someone has the answer to my problem, which shows the same symptoms others have reported, but none of the replies seem to fit my case.
I spent last night trying to set this up, without success.
I can't get any files imported into the Movie, or Video Libraries - I get the "There are no files...." error.
(1) The Music lib is fine, so it's not the connection to my NAS, confirmed by point 3 below.
(2) The usual power on/off; resetting to factory defaults and start over; run the setup wizard for the DMA22000 again, and again; setup WMC afresh; reinstall the extender interface from either or both the PC or DMA200; and checking for updates, doesn't help.
(BTW I've set up WMC on several PCs, all of which work and I can get a WD box to work - okay that's not WMC but it suggests I'm not completely hopeless at this sort of thing).
(3) Finally I can discover and play files via the "share" item in the Video library on the DMA2200, so it's not a missing codec or divx/xvid issue. But, that gives me a list of 1500 files all called VTS..., so is no help.
How do I get the Movie lib to work as it's supposed to?
The PC is fully patched, 64 bit, Win7 pro, if that matters.
Many thanks in the hope of a fix (that doesn't involve recoding all 1500 files, or buying 3rd party software, please!)
Solved!
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Hai,
I've setup 2 DMA2200 with Win7, works like charme.
DVB-T, Movies, music etc.
To play movies i use MyMovies. A movie database plugin that kan transcode al kind of movies.
There are also some other tricks to let Win7 play movies on the extender.
But it will always be only the main movie without menu
Check out thegreenbutton.com or the australianmcecomunity.
Lots of info, tools en tricks
Cheers
Brian

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