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 [intlink id=“38” type=“post”]here[/intlink] and [intlink id=“14” type=“post”]here[/intlink]) make it possible to play FLACs in 64bit media center, but the media library was incredibly slow.
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A temporary workaround for the ATI / 7MC / BBC-HD problems
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This issue has now been fixed by a driver update from ati. For more info see the [intlink id=“48” type=“post”]latest article[/intlink] on the issue
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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 us who don’t wish to maintain 2 sets of codecs it is desirable to change this default status. However, Microsoft do not appear to have provided a simple way to do this as yet. So here’s how…
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