Media Center Redux

Oct 7

Windows 7 Media Player recognizes and plays mkv (a container format) out of the box.

1080p playback was fine. Max’ed the CPU when it should be using the video card. Most modern video cards come with h264 decoding built in.

I may need to find the right combo of codecs to make it work.

Playback was fine as long as I used Media Player Classic Home Cinema. It’s just using the CPU not the video card.

Playback was terrible in Windows Media Player. Not so bad in VLC.

I’ll be curious to see how the Asus O!Play works.

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