Windows seven Media Center includes a fair amount of streaming cyberspace Tv set by default, but you lot want to add more than selections. Today nosotros take a look at the SecondRunTV Beta Plugin that allows yous to access more streaming channels.

Download and Install

First we need to download the SecondRunTV nothing file (link below) and extract it to a user-friendly location on your machine. Make sure you're closed out of WMC and run setup.msi.

Become through the installation procedure as normal accepting the defaults.

Using SecondRunTV

Subsequently you have it installed, launch WMC and you'll find it in the Extras Library…click on the SecondRunTV icon.

Now you'll have a bunch of new channels listed in alphabetical order to choose from including Hulu and YouTube.

Select a channel and you're presented with the programs that are available for streaming.

Hither we selected American Dad and tin choose between different episodes and clips.

A lot of the content is pulled from Hulu and will launch inside Windows Media Centre. Yous will have the traditional Hulu Controls and can watch in full-screen manner likewise.

SecondRunTV makes information technology easier to find different content from a central location inside WMC. While watching a program you can pull up the menu to select other episodes.

In the top menus y'all tin can select different categories similar Tv set by Network, Past Title, Movies, and Search. Here is an example of movies that are available to watch.

Right now a lot of times at that place won't be a Affiche Preview of the show on each channel. Simply there is a title and overview below so you need to sentinel for that.

While the majority of the aqueduct content we tried comes from Hulu, you tin can besides access the site directly.

And so you can log in and scan for the complimentary content available.

If you're a Hulu Plus subscriber, it will work fine with that equally well.

It likewise offers easy access to YouTube videos and the site itself where y'all can log in, search for content, and comment on dissimilar videos.

Decision

While this will give you easy access to several online streaming channels in a central location, proceed in listen it's still in Beta. We experienced some freeze ups and crashes occasionally and it doesn't currently work with extenders. If you're an early adopter and want to check out what SecondRunTV has to offer, you might want to try information technology out. As the project continues to develop we would only expect more features and amend stability.

If you alive in the United kingdom, some other plugin yous might want to endeavour for boosted streaming content is TunerFree MCE as most of it's content is but bachelor in the Uk.

Download SecondRunTV Beta