[trueimage]

I am usually pretty good at figuring this stuff out. But, I finally want to use a system like Vista Media Center. I usually just use MPC-HC and coreavc.


Here is my hardware:

Q6600

Asus P5B

2GB PC2-6400 DDR2

Palit 9600GT Sonic 1GB RAM HDMI out

Chaintech AV-710 SPDIF out to receiver (anyone using the input on the Palit card above to pass sound with HDMI?)


TV is Samsung LNT5271F 52" 120Hz LCD

I am running HDMI out on 1080p/24


Software:

Vista Ultimate 32-bit

PowerDVD 8 (for DXVA support on mkv x264 files)


I have downloaded MyMovies and an ArcSoft TotalMedia Extreme Trial


I really just want to play mostly x264 mkv files with HA and some xvids (If I could use different players and/or separate them so I can use ffdshow on the xvids that would be great, but not essential right now). I want to have VMC as the frontend and it looks like I want MyMovies for the disc images and info etc.


Anyone have a tutorial for this or some tips? I can't figure out how to choose what is playing what.. I just get not supported in VMC and choppy playback in TMT.

 

[vapore0n]

have you tried playing a video in vmc?


The other day I finally did and it just played. I got ffdshow, hali, dscaler, aac, and matroska. The 1080i mkv video played on both zoomplayer and vista media center.


once it runs, I guess its just setting up mymovies?

 

[Inimical]



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Originally Posted by trueimage /forum/post/14187072


I am usually pretty good at figuring this stuff out. But, I finally want to use a system like Vista Media Center. I usually just use MPC-HC and coreavc.


Here is my hardware:

Q6600

Asus P5B

2GB PC2-6400 DDR2

Palit 9600GT Sonic 1GB RAM HDMI out

Chaintech AV-710 SPDIF out to receiver (anyone using the input on the Palit card above to pass sound with HDMI?)


TV is Samsung LNT5271F 52" 120Hz LCD

I am running HDMI out on 1080p/24


Software:

Vista Ultimate 32-bit

PowerDVD 8 (for DXVA support on mkv x264 files)


I have downloaded MyMovies and an ArcSoft TotalMedia Extreme Trial


I really just want to play mostly x264 mkv files with HA and some xvids (If I could use different players and/or separate them so I can use ffdshow on the xvids that would be great, but not essential right now). I want to have VMC as the frontend and it looks like I want MyMovies for the disc images and info etc.


Anyone have a tutorial for this or some tips? I can't figure out how to choose what is playing what.. I just get not supported in VMC and choppy playback in TMT.

Have you installed this ?

 

[trueimage]

I am not really a fan of CCCP. I'd rather install only the things I need one at a time

 

[umdivx]

from what I've gathered on here, to get HA (DXVA2) with media center is you need to use the MPC-HC codec and register it with a direct show filter editor, currently I haven't found a way to do that myself, so I just use FFdshow + Halli Splitter to get mkv support/playback in VMC.


- Josh