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2 FFDShow DXVA H.264 corruption resolved

Published on 5^th December 2011 by Jon Scaife in Codecs. Updated 17^th January 2012.

Picking the best build of the FFDShow tryouts can be tricky — we’ve found a range of issues but have settled on build 3949 for now.

0 Running 16bit Windows apps on Windows 7

Published on 16^th October 2011 by Jon Scaife in Misc Software. Updated 31^st August 2012.

Whilst setting up a new laptop with Windows 7 x64 recently, I was asked if I could get some old 16bit programs running. One of these was an educational piece of software called “Multimedia Motion II” by Cambridge Science Media. This is a windows program that has worked on all previous versions of windows up… Read more »

0 Copy files from Humax PVR 9200T to PC

Published on 16^th October 2011 by Jon Scaife in Freeview, Misc Media Software. Updated 26^th June 2012.

I own a couple of Humax PVT-9200T dual freeview PVRs, both of which are now quite full with recorded programs. Humax have provided a program called eLinker, but it isn’t very good. A good alternative is Humax Media Controller but unfortunately it doesn’t work with Windows x64, as Mike Dimmick explains. Thankfully, Mike has also… Read more »

34 Get your old scanner working with Windows 7 x64

Published on 16^th October 2011 by Jon Scaife in Misc Hardware. Updated 15^th March 2013.

A guide to several ways to get old scanners working with Windows 7 x64. Also relevant to Vista and Windows 8.

0 Flash Player 11: Official 64bit

Published on 12^th October 2011 by Jon Scaife in Misc Media Software, Web Technologies.

Adobe Flash Player 11 has been released. It finally brings official 64bit support in an all-in-one installer for both 64 and 32bit. Hardware acceleration is also now included. Good work Adobe, lets just hope there are less security issues than in the past.

0 Adding searching of PDF file contents from Windows search

Published on 19^th September 2011 by Jon Scaife in Misc Software. Updated 16^th January 2012.

Windows 7 (and Vista) include a search system that can search not just file names, but the contents of files. Microsoft Office documents are all supported by default, however PDF files are not. Adobe provide a plugin which is included with Adobe Reader 9 (and newer) which enables this functionality. However a 64bit plugin is… Read more »

0 Unsolved: Decoding interlaced vc1 in Media Center x64

Published on 15^th May 2011 by Jon Scaife in Codecs. Updated 24^th January 2012.

Whilst my MediaPC setup can decode just about everything thrown at it, I have had problems decoding interlaced VC1 content. The problem is caused by the failure of ffmpeg to support interlaced vc1. Whilst there are other codecs (e.g. cyberlink or arcsoft) these are currently not available as x64. Cyberlink do have an x64 codec… Read more »

0 Retrieving serials from Windows

Published on 10^th May 2011 by Jon Scaife in Windows. Updated 30^th May 2012.

I am frequently given PCs to repair that require a reinstall of windows. These often don’t come with a full list of serial numbers for the software installed on them. To avoid the hassle of asking the owner to dig the serials out, it is easier to simply pull the serials from the old install… Read more »

0 Fix for Stark Covers crash on x64 systems

Published on 6^th October 2010 by Jon Scaife in Media Browser. Updated 24^th January 2012.

I’ve been having various issues running Stark Covers ever since I switched to Windows 7 x64. Today, after exploring I’ve discovered the following combination of fixes.