How to Play .MKV files in Media Center
KB ID 0000564 Problem You have a video encoded in .mkv format, and that video is not listed and cannot be played in Windows Media Center. Solution Playing an MKV file is one problem, getting them to be displayed in Media Center is another. 1. First we need to get Windows to “understand” what a .mkv file is, to do that we need to install a codec. The one I’m using is from the shark007 website. If you’re x32 or...
Force Media Center to Update its Libraries
KB ID 0000627 Problem I use Media Center a lot, and the one thing that bugs me is, every time I add a new film or TV series etc, I have to restart Media Center, restart services, or reboot the entire media PC before I can see them in the list. After some searching it appears that Media Center uses the same repository/database of media that Windows Media Player uses. There is a convoluted method of stopping services, deleting files...