thanks
blood.eaglz,
spaceghost - i'll try some of those things. I'm very ignorant when it comes to configuring codecs.
I (thought I had) tried everything I saw on the Shark007 discussions, yesterday.
Some posts I have seen (somewhere) say that WMC "just works" for FLV, MP4 in the USA with some add-in that is Microsoft-supplied. A couple of Aussies were a bit p1ssed off about that.
[Edit]
I got it going – more 4rse than class:
- Used Shark007 Win7Codecs. When I uninstalled the prior version, I apparently didn’t even have the 64-bit ("x64 Components”) installed.
- Anyway, I then installed the 32-bit (v2.8.5), then the 64-bit (v2.8.8) versions of Win7Codecs (such a messy website, so difficult to understand what is necessary).
- Ran the Shark007 Setup Tool as Admin. Used the SUGGESTED settings. (also, an ugly and un-intuitive utility)
- Located a FLV file (just using Windows Explorer, any one). Right-click, Open With – chose the Windows 7 Media Center, and it played OK.
- Went into the WMC in the normal way – found that my previously-unplayable videos in the Pictures & Videos Library were showing up as thumbnails and now play OK.
- I have 2 Windows Media Players (32, 64-bit) available now. My VLC Media Player is still the default for MP4 videos.
Prior to that sequence, I used the K-Lite tool to clean up missing codecs in my registry, but didn't do much more.
So I'm happy enough, but not really much wiser.