Media Centre Formats?

PatZ1989 · 23 Jul 2010 at 14:37

Really want to start using media centre more for HTPC stuff, but most of my video files are avi or mkv, are there any plugins etc that would make media centre see these?

Thanks

PatZ1989 · 26 Jul 2010 at 08:36

Anybody?

Philtor · 26 Jul 2010 at 09:41

Hi Pat take a look at the Shark Codec package available here:

http://shark007.net/win7codecs.html

Philtor · 26 Jul 2010 at 09:43

If you still have no joy then consider switching to XBMC instead:

http://xbmc.org/

wonderlust · 26 Jul 2010 at 09:44

It's a little more work than a codec pack, but I always set mine up using this:-

http://thegreenbutton.net/forums/p/78749/390699.aspx

feriso · 26 Jul 2010 at 14:24

Or switch to MediaPortal, much better imo and plays all those.

PatZ1989 · 26 Jul 2010 at 14:29

Wow thanks for all the links, i should point out though i want to use media centre, i will be sticking with media centre and am not interested in alternatives to media centre

Evil-I · 26 Jul 2010 at 14:37

philtorrens said:
Hi Pat take a look at the Shark Codec package available here:

http://shark007.net/win7codecs.html

+1

Haven't used anything other than sharks codec pack for a couple of years now and it works seamlessly on every file type I've thrown at it, all working happily from within windows media centre on windows 7 64bit.

E-I

Demon · 26 Jul 2010 at 14:38

PatZ1989 said:
Wow thanks for all the links, i should point out though i want to use media centre, i will be sticking with media centre and am not interested in alternatives to media centre

I use the Shark007 codec pack,

I can also highly recommend the MediaBrowser plug-in for your 'front end' browsing of your video collection.

Out of the box, using both those, I have been able to play all my MKV's and AVI's etc.

The only addition I have is I use the CoreAVC codec as I wanted NVidia CUDA acceleration, and Total Media Theatre for HD-DVD/BR/DVD duties.

The only thing I had to really configure was the MKV splitter (Matroska) to prioritise English as the default language, with no subtitles by default, but this is a problem with my MKV encoding, where I didn't pick the correct defaults myself.

PatZ1989 · 26 Jul 2010 at 15:10

Yeah, must admit having read up on the Shark007 i think i will be using this, definately like the full functionality for mkv files

Thanks philtorrens, seems you're always coming to my rescue on these forums