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Complete Media Center Set-up Guide
Complete Media Center Set-up Guide
Many different stand alone Media Centers connected to an external Home Theater receiver have been succesfully installed using this guide. This set-up will allow you to use subtitles with any video format. You will be able switch them on and off and even modify the size of the subtitles with your remote.
You will need:
-A clean install of Media Center. Deinstall codec packs and everything Media Center related.
-Make sure the The Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 SP1 Redistributable Package is installed.
-Registry hack 'take ownership' for modifying some Windows files.
-Ffdshow
-Haali Media Splitter
-Media Browser
-Media Control
-Win7DSFilterTweaker
1.
Execute the registry hack.
Take ownership of windows/system32/MP3DMOD.DLL and rename to MP3DMOD.BAK
Take ownership of windows/system32/DSDMO.DLL and rename to DSDMO.DLL .BAK
Restart your machine.
2.
Install FFDSHOW.
In the FFDSHOW audio decoder configuration and go to 'codecs' and disable the MP3 codec.
When connected digitally to a home theater av receiver go to 'output' and enable the pass-through of the formats your receiver supports.
In the FFDSHOW video decoder configuration enable subtitles and 'heuristic search'.
3.
Install Haali Media Splitter. During install, also enable .avi support.
4.
Install Media Control. Use the configuration guide at http://damienbt.******** and make sure you are using the recommended version of FFDSHOW.
5.
Install Media Browser. Use the configuration guide at http://mediabrowser.tv.
6.
Use Win7DSFilterTweaker to make sure FFDSHOW will be used instead of any other codec. For MP3 use the Microsoft codec.
Good Luck!