Posts tagged: flac

2Windows Media Center eHome LogoFull 7MC codec setup

Published on by in Codecs, Misc Media Software, Windows Media Center. Updated 30th December 2011.

I’ve pre­vi­ously pos­ted sev­eral times about codec issues on 7mc, but I’ve now got a solu­tion that is com­pre­hens­ive, fairly simple and works con­sist­ently.  With a few free codecs and util­it­ies you can have full decod­ing sup­port, DXVA, sub­titles and fant­astic flex­ib­il­ity work­ing in 64bit (or 32bit) Media Cen­ter.  The fol­low­ing instruc­tions are spe­cific to… Read more »

0FLAC LogoFull Flac support in Media Center x64

Published on by in Codecs, Windows Media Center. Updated 16th January 2012.

Fol­low­ing on from an , I have been con­tinu­ing to work on get­ting my music col­lec­tion work­ing in Win­dows 7 Media Cen­ter. The prob­lem I have had is that although there are codecs from xiph which sup­port play­back of flacs in 64bit play­ers () there are (as far as I’m aware) no tag extenders com­pat­ible… Read more »

0Xiph Codecs Logo64bit Xiph codec breaks file-type dialog in WMP12

Published on by in Codecs. Updated 5th October 2011.

In an I recom­men­ded installing the Xiph codecs to sup­port FLAC files in 64bit Media Player and Media Cen­ter. One of the com­ments (my thanks to thom007) on that post poin­ted out that the Xiph codecs break the “file type” dia­log box in Media Player 12. Below is a work-around which restores the file-type dia­log… Read more »