Windows 7 Codecs | Windows 7 Center

Posted by Al in Windows 7 News on 04 4th, 2009 | 8 Comments

Last week, an article was published on Gizmodo suggested that Windows 7 may block the use of third-party codecs in Windows Media Player and Windows Media Center. The story referenced an ffdshow developer who claimed that Microsoft had locked mpeg4 and h264 codecs into Media Foundation in build 7057,...

Windows 7 Codecs...

Posted by Al in Windows 7 Downloads, Windows 7 Tutorials on 01 21st, 2009 | 28 Comments

If you’ve been wondering why Windows 7 can play many of your media files out-of-the-box, it’s because Windows 7 now natively supports most popular formats including H.264, Xvid, and DivX. Even so, there are many other multimedia formats that Windows cannot play without the proper codec. To...