5Media Codecs and Utilities for Windows 7 x64

Thank you Tom for your help­ful and con­struct­ive offer­ing. I don’t know any­one who burns CDs with WMP12, but any­one who needs to burn a سی ڈی and does use WMP can always switch to one of the many altern­at­ives, for example CDBurn­er­XP which is free. As for what you said about “copy­ing oth­er peoples meth­ods…” — it does­n’t stand up to scru­tiny. Even a curs­ory glance at the posts on DIYMH will make it evid­ent that I give cred­it to any sources I’ve used to resolve issues. I’d like to point out that I make no per­son­al gain from run­ning this site — it takes up time for no bene­fit to me. It exists merely in hope that it may on occa­sion be use­ful to oth­ers. What I write here is always based on my actu­al exper­i­ence, in oth­er words what has worked for me. In this case I have a Win­dows 7 x64 based HTPC and I spent a great deal of time, using many many resources from all over the net, get­ting it work­ing how I wanted. This post was simply a point­er to remind myself what codecs I had used. Rather than simply cre­at­ing a private doc­u­ment I put all my thoughts and find­ings into an art­icle in the hope that someone else may find some of it use­ful. If you don’t find it help­ful that’s fair enough — but there is no need to come here and post snip­ing com­ments — try put­ting some­thing con­struct­ive into the world instead 🙂