जीत Dows 8 is finished and will soon be available for retail sale. With that in mind it seemed a good time to write an updated guide to getting codecs set up for a fully operational HTPC for both Windows 7 तथा 8. For this guide I’m using a new feature of HTML5 which creates expandable instructions. At the time of writing this is only supported by chrome and safari 6 but hopefully other browsers will add support in the near future.
Install Windows
- Select appropriate regional settings
- Log in or create a local account
Customise Windows
- Customise Win 8 यूआई (see article)
- इंस्टॉल करें सीपीयू-Z to check hardware
- डाउन लोड एमबी तथा GPU drivers and install
- Add Media Center (win 8 only)
- turn down UAC by 1 notch
- set clock auto-update site
- enable full windows update
Install apps
- Get a new browser
- install windows updates
- install Security Essentials (win 7 only)
- install .net framework 3.5 (win 8 — via features)
- install .net framework 4 (win 7 only)
- install Visual C++ runtimes (6)
- install DX 9.0c (don’t install bing bar)
Setup Media Center
- go thru first-run
Basic codec setup
- install ffdshow
- install dxva
- config — enable subtitles
- config — tick hardware acceleration
- config — set post-processing to surface overlay
- config — connect to: to directsound
- config — uncheck “apply only to spdif”
- install LAV
- config ffdshow dxva
- run win7dsfiltertweaker
- set to ffdshow DXVA, ffdshow, LAV in that order of preference.
- disable all except DTV-डीवीडी 64bits
- disable MF for all formats
- disable MC preferred
- run regedit, delete both keys from [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Media Center\Decoder]
- configure video renderer
- use graphstudio x64
- set merit of EVR to preferred+2
- change directshow preferred codecs
- run regedit, take ownership of [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\DirectShow\Preferred] and use the .reg file to overwrite
MediaBrowser setup
- स्थापित एमबी
- install Virtual CloneDrive
- install MCL2
- स्थापित एमपीसी-HC
- bypass smartscreen
- no desktop icon
- disable all internal filters
- add ffdshow dxva, video and audio to preferred
- add lav splitter to preferred
- add EVR to preferred
Audio Codec Setup
- install Xiph
Extra media apps and tweaks
- install TunerFreeMCE
- customise MC Menus
Final options
- install CCleaner & CCEnhancer
- use speedfan
“Hi James I realise it has been a long while, but I just checked this on windows 11 (build 23H2)…”