Windows seven Media Center includes a fair corporeality of streaming net Goggle box by default, simply yous want to add more selections. Today we accept a look at the SecondRunTV Beta Plugin that allows you to access more streaming channels.

Download and Install

First we need to download the SecondRunTV aught file (link below) and extract it to a convenient location on your machine. Make sure you're closed out of WMC and run setup.msi.

Become through the installation procedure equally normal accepting the defaults.

Using SecondRunTV

After you have it installed, launch WMC and y'all'll detect it in the Extras Library…click on the SecondRunTV icon.

Now you'll accept a bunch of new channels listed in alphabetical lodge to cull from including Hulu and YouTube.

Select a channel and y'all're presented with the programs that are bachelor 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 within Windows Media Heart. Y'all volition have the traditional Hulu Controls and can picket in full-screen style as well.

SecondRunTV makes it easier to find dissimilar content from a central location inside WMC. While watching a program you tin can pull up the carte to select other episodes.

In the top menus you tin can select unlike categories like Boob tube past Network, By Title, Movies, and Search. Here is an example of movies that are bachelor to watch.

Right now a lot of times there won't be a Poster Preview of the show on each channel. But there is a championship and overview beneath so you need to watch for that.

While the bulk of the channel content we tried comes from Hulu, you can also access the site straight.

Then you tin can log in and browse for the free content available.

If you're a Hulu Plus subscriber, it volition work fine with that besides.

It also offers easy admission to YouTube videos and the site itself where you can log in, search for content, and comment on dissimilar videos.

Conclusion

While this will give you easy admission to several online streaming channels in a central location, keep in heed information technology's notwithstanding 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 offering, y'all might want to try it out. As the project continues to develop we would only expect more than features and meliorate stability.

If you lot live in the UK, another plugin y'all might want to try for additional streaming content is TunerFree MCE every bit most of it's content is only available in the U.k..

Download SecondRunTV Beta