MKV + Media Center/ Media Browser Issues

try downloading media centre master then trawl through one by one getting the metadata for your movies make sure you have the name of the film and year if poss also have the IMDB site open, when MCM cant find the data you can find it yourself when you find the page of the movie you are looking for in the address bar there will be a number begining tt.... copy and paste it into the page MCM puts up for you to enter number, if the number page disappears in MCM rescan folder til page comes back up.
this may seem confusing but when you use it its easy ,i spent the weekend re doing my folders for meta data and media browser looks fantastic.
also you can find movie posters on google images if MCM cant find the poster, i found if you rename the poster "folder" it will load into media browser occasionally you will see a blank space in media browser where the poster should be even though you have it downloaded ,if you go into the film page in media browser and see the film info ther ius a refresh button click it and you should then see the poster when you go back a page .try it and see anyhow it worked for me (MCM) WHEN MEDIA BROWSER WOULD ONLY FIND SIX OUT OF 219 FILMS oops s'cuse the caps
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also media browser doesn't play the movie media center does so if your codecs allow mkv then your ok

You just need the proper splitters for MKV files.

Try Sharks Codec package.
It will have all the needed splitters, and even MKV thumbs will work.
Shark007's FREE Codec solutions - Windows 7 codecs

If you have a 64bit OS, you will need the basic 32 bit and the 64bit add-on as well.

no offence to orbital shark but when i used his codecs my media center wouldn't find my movies i used klite codecs and its fine.
anyhow i think the OP is saying his mkv's and divx play on his media center its the media browser pluggin that wont see mkv and divx files as i said using media center master bypasses this issue as it puts the metadata for the movie in the movie file and this info backgrounds ,posters ,actors, film rating ie pg ,18,r etc it alsogives a description of the movie

Bonez said:

Oh boy this is opening a can of worms again, theirs basically loads ways of fixing this firstly is Shark007's FREE Codec solutions - Windows 7 codecs, or you could try the divx stuff DivX Plus Codec Pack ? DivX codecs for Windows media player | DivX.com then there is installing a codec pack like Free-Codecs.com : Download K-Lite Codec Pack 5.9.0 FULL, K-Lite Codec Pack 5.9.0 STANDARD, K-Lite Codec Pack 5.9.0 BASIC : K-Lite Codec Pack is a collection of codecs and related tools or CCCP - Combined Community Codec Pack or you can go ahead and just install FFshow like explained in this Guide: Setting up Codecs using FFDShow - Media Browser Community Tracker or you could just install the Haali Media Splitter splitter

Out of the above which would i recommed? any of them apart from a full blown codec pack like k-lite have a number of PC's at home running win 7 and I don't think anyone them have the same MKV solution
Media Centre Master has nothing to do with his problem of MKV's not showing up in media browser thou yes it is a very handy program to have esp now that meta-browser has gone pay

hear hear! as i said media center master is the soloution to mkv and divx movies showing the data in media browser. also media browser shows what format a movie is in depending on how you confiure media browser display

Media master (while a decent app) is simply meta data fetcher.

All it does is fetch the info for Media Center to display and has nothing to do with the actual playback of MKV files.

In order to get MKV files playing correctly you need the proper splitter. Haali in this case.

I suggest Sharks pack because it does not make any associations, nor does it interfer with what Win7 has going on natively, although it does have the power to do so if the user chooses.
It also supports thumbnails with MKV files.

Although there are many options & opinions on the matter, you do need at least a splitter.