Pulling together a lot of previous posts here is a guide on how to build and set up a fully featured DIY HTPC from scratch…
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Full Flac support in Media Center x64
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 »
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Speeding up WMP12 (and 7MC) media library database
One of the problems with my HTPC that I have only just started looking at is how to use it to play and manage my large collection of audio CD’s which I have painstakingly ripped to FLAC’s. The Xiph codecs (see previous articles and ) make it possible to play FLACs in 64bit media center,… Read more »
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Switching the default WMP to x64 in Windows 7
One of the strangest things in Windows 7 x64 is the presence of both x86 and x64 versions of Windows Media Player 12. Even stranger is that despite Windows Media Center being 64bit only (and therefore requiring 64bit codecs) Microsoft saw fit to set the default WMP12 version to the x86 edition. For those of… Read more »
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When using a PC with a second display (for example a laptop with a data projector) it is often a common problem to find that a video played with Windows Media Player will only display on the primary display, and not on the secondary output. There are various different configurations which contribute to this behaviour… Read more »
