MSI Mega Pc-Media Center-Remote:solutions

I bought my Mega 180 on friday and on sunday i was thinking about sending it back but(first i broke sound then lcd display etc. )
I bought it because i wanted to have a "cool looking,small,remote controlled media center and of course computer" but with msi media center III it's just impossible(bad performance,bad program..) aso that's what i did:
1st:girder + plugin for msi cards (fantastic program for remote controller.just learn it how to work with a program that you want to use)then
music:winamp +girder
tv: (watching and recording)-MSIPVS -(i'll find something better this week)
dvd:power dvd (o.k. i'm lazy   )
video clips:bestplayer (in polish) +girder
i just cannot imagine to have this computer and not using remote controller.
it takes a while to learn girder how to behave but after you have a fantastic media (and heating  ;-) ) center using your prefered programs.
I'm happy again
I'm still working on girder, i'll try to prepare the files for the most popular programs but maybe not today :-) .........
aaaaa girder is shareware   19.90$ but maybe someone knows another program?

A very good program:
Ir2Key: https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?threadid=49129&sid=
:hypecrite:
Greetings,
Peter Vrenken.

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  • Mega 865 - MSI Media Center SLOW on Music mode (CD audio)

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    This email from tech support may be useful.  I'm not sure if this is a new version or not.  Its a 110MB download, so hopefully it will help.  I'm downloading it now.  I'll let you all know if this works (in case someone else has this problem, and they are searching through the posts):
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    Deleted by GV
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    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
     Please include previous mails when replying!
    -----Original Message-----
    From: Phillip T. George [mailto:[email protected]]
    Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2004 3:15 AM
    To: [email protected]
    Subject: Mega 865 - MSI Media Center SLOW on Music mode (CD audio)
    Hello,
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