After the changes to the BBC iPlayer web site, the performance of TunerFreeMCE went down a little bit (they removed a really useful RSS feed). I decided that the best thing to do was to cache all of the programs in advance outside of the media center environment, so I created an caching program that can be run as a scheduled task to populate the cache on a regular basis. Version 1.6 enables this feature, automatically creating the scheduled task when you run the installer, setting it to run every hour. If you want it to run more often or less often, or tweak it's behaviour on login and waking from sleep, you just edit the scheduled task settings.

People who want to try the new version can download it here. Please send feedback on how it works for you, good or bad, to martin@milliesoft.co.uk.