Hard drive space isn’t necessarily expensive, that is until you consider the amount of disk space required to archive your 300+ disk DVD collection to your Media Center pc. With each regular DVD clocking in at around 4gb, let’s not even mention bluray disks, the cost can add up quickly. So what we need is a way to compress those [...]
Since this article a flurry of Metadata tools have come along to fill the void in Media Center’s Movie Library Synopsis view including DVD Library Manager, MediaScout, My Movie Finder, YAMMM, Media Center Master and more! To find the latest on Metadata downloading programs and tools check out our Metadata articles and guides or subscribe to the Metadata RSS feed [...]
It seems that although MP4 file are natively supported by Media Center’s codec the Movie Library doesn’t show these files by default. To add these files to the Movie Library we will do much the same as we did for the MKV files. Download either the x86 reg file or x64 reg file depending on your version of Windows and [...]
Don’t like codec packs? Try this: MKVs for Minimalists on Windows 7 The first step to playing MKV (Matroska) video files in your Media Center is to make sure your system is capable of playing MKV files in the first place. There seem to be innumerable ways to accomplish this and everyone has their own preference. For the sake of [...]
