Shark007 and HTPC

Audio woes with the Media Center PC are finally over with Shark007’s latest Windows 7 Codec Pack. In order to get all my music video files and movie files working, these are the customized settings I would need to apply:

 

Disabling AC3Filter

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Passing-through FFDShow and enabling Audio normalization

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Setting H264 to use FFDShow

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Using ffdShow is important for MP2/3 and disabling WMF so for TS files with x264 and AAC, no need to remux it using MetaFox to create a MKV file.

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We can upscale stereo to mirror the 2 channels in read left/right speakers using this setting:

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This does not work under SPDIF for some reason.

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