Comments on: Windows 7’s new “play all” decoders, encoders and transcoding capabilities

By: Is Microsoft Windows 7 Media Center a Home Run for Digital Cable? « After the Transition

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 19:09:03 +0000

[...] The list above is in addition to previously announced upgrades: [...]

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windows 7 tutorial — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 00:02:33 +0000

Oh and Quicktime file support would be nice LOL

By: Windows 7 to play nice with all decoders — Shooting at Bubbles

Windows 7 to play nice with all decoders — Shooting at Bubbles — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 05:19:38 +0000

[...] according to Long Zhend over at his istartedsomething.com blog this will drastically change for the better with the release of Windows 7. Not only will they be [...]

By: Ararat

Ararat — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 05:53:50 +0000

@Algis

Dude, I think you need to reread what you wrote, and you’ll realise it’s silly. Codec Pack? Seriously? All the codecs you mentioned are already supported out of the box (with the POSSIBLE exception of DTS). MKV is not a codec, it is a container, and all that is needed to support it is a splitter such as Haali (although yes, an updated version is needed for a version that will work with the new API). But as everyone is saying, it’s not really that necessary, as M2TS already seems to play, all that is necessary is remuxing.

By: Playing with Windows 7 (Beta 1) The League of Paul

Playing with Windows 7 (Beta 1) The League of Paul — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 04:50:30 +0000

[...] in November, Long Zheng reported on the new codec support making its way into Windows 7. WMP/WMC (and any other DirectShow – I think – [...]

By: DivX no esta tan feliz con Microsoft - FayerWayer

DivX no esta tan feliz con Microsoft - FayerWayer — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 01:09:32 +0000

[...] el caso de Windows7 el soporte al estándar H.264 es para los formatos MPEG-4, 3GPP y 3GPP2 pero no para el formato Matroska de [...]

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 01:36:24 +0000

Algis:

Actually all that should be needed is a Haali update that plugs into the new Media Foundation API instead of just DirectShow. A codec pack is a bit overkill if that change gets implemented.

By: IP

IP — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 05:55:59 +0000

Great! Windows Beta also released. so i am going to test it practically to check it out its capability to play all encoder and decoder files.

By: Algis

Algis — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 12:34:41 +0000

MKV must be part of this otherwise its a just a marketing noise and users will need anyway to install the same k-lite codec pack or the other one BOB described above. If MS can eliminate installation of unsafe codec packs for majority of users because Windows7 will play MOST POPULAR formats out of the box, that I would say this will be a big achievement. Anyone can play H.264 now even with XP but codec distribution is not secure and Windows Update does not help if codec is improved.

If they say they work for the customer and not against the customer then what I need is support for MKV with H.264 or VC-1 video and AAC, AC3 or DTS sound. If this is not in Windows7 then I anyway need to install codec pack and all this improvement is of very little value.

By: Antti

Antti — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 11:45:35 +0000

But where’s Vorbis and Theora support? /______\