I was rather shocked to find that my Vista Media Center Decoder has just clocked up it's 180,000th download. That is an awful lot of Vista Media Center users tinkering with their codecs. I have no idea how that compares with other VMC tools out there but I'm impressed by the number. Its rather...
One of the comments that commonly appears in posts about my VMCD utility is "How do i get X decoder to show up in your utility" For decoders that are XP Media Center compatible this has been explained in this post: http://thedigitallifestyle.com/cs/blogs/garry/archive/2007/03/21/tip...
I've tried valiantly. I've scoured registry dumps that readers have kindly sent in. I've analysed all the relative entries I've even worked out where a 64 bit version of my decoder utility should post the entries. The only problem is that my current 32 bit app is posting in the right place. Unfortuantley...
John G posted a great tip in the comments of my Vista Media Center Decoder utility post. He said... "People have asked me how to get the WinDVD and DSCALER codecs to work in Mediacenter as i reported on their use. I noticed that whether by accident or design, the Windows XP Video Decoder Checkup Utility...