2009-03-14, 04:33 PM
Didn't know where else to put his, but I wanted to let everyone what happened here with Windows 7 Beta 7048 and PVRX2 yesterday.
I had a day off, and I had downloaded the 7048 beta of Windows 7. I thought I would try it as it had built in h264 decoding, and I saw an article on how to play MKV files in Media C3enter. So, I thought I'd play a bit. Loaded Windows 7 7048, installed FFDshow and Haali Splitter, then a couple REG patches. Set up Media Center, (easy setup, busy program) and when I went to Videos there were the MKV files. And they played!!
I was playing just pieces of them, and I when I got to my DVD rip of Iron Man I started to notice it was sputtering" badly. The sound was fine, but the video looked like everyone was doing the "Robot" (remember that dance?) I tried to get it to use FFDshow, and Media Center just kept using it's internal codec. At least I think it did, the FFDshow tray icon never showed up. Then I installed PVRX2 and set that up. I set the preferred decoder in PVRX2 to FFDshow and tried again. The same stutter, and no tray icon. I tried Media Player Classic Home Cinema and no stutter. (Using the internal codec). I tried forcing the merit on FFDshow to highest and still no FFDshow.
I think when Microsoft included the H264 codec they block all others in Windows from using any other codec for H264 playback on the computer. I wish I had thought to try Graphedit to figure it out, but instead went to Beta 7022 (no H264 codec) and everything went back to normal. I smell a rat here.
I had a day off, and I had downloaded the 7048 beta of Windows 7. I thought I would try it as it had built in h264 decoding, and I saw an article on how to play MKV files in Media C3enter. So, I thought I'd play a bit. Loaded Windows 7 7048, installed FFDshow and Haali Splitter, then a couple REG patches. Set up Media Center, (easy setup, busy program) and when I went to Videos there were the MKV files. And they played!!
I was playing just pieces of them, and I when I got to my DVD rip of Iron Man I started to notice it was sputtering" badly. The sound was fine, but the video looked like everyone was doing the "Robot" (remember that dance?) I tried to get it to use FFDshow, and Media Center just kept using it's internal codec. At least I think it did, the FFDshow tray icon never showed up. Then I installed PVRX2 and set that up. I set the preferred decoder in PVRX2 to FFDshow and tried again. The same stutter, and no tray icon. I tried Media Player Classic Home Cinema and no stutter. (Using the internal codec). I tried forcing the merit on FFDshow to highest and still no FFDshow.
I think when Microsoft included the H264 codec they block all others in Windows from using any other codec for H264 playback on the computer. I wish I had thought to try Graphedit to figure it out, but instead went to Beta 7022 (no H264 codec) and everything went back to normal. I smell a rat here.