Posts tagged: Windows Media Player

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 »

1Windows Media Center eHome LogoSpeeding up WMP12 & 7MC media library database

Published on by in Windows Media Center. Updated 5th February 2013.

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 »

0Windows Media Player LogoSwitching the default WMP to x64 in Windows 7

Published on by in Misc Media Software. Updated 5th October 2011.

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 »

0Windows Media Player LogoOutputting WMP Videos to second display

Published on by in Misc Media Software. Updated 5th October 2011.

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 »