Win7codecs

nice, thanks.

Quick question. I just recently isntalled TVersity, which if you're familiar with, provides a network streaming solution for accessing and transcoding your movies on the fly to my xbox360 for example.

It obviously comes with it's own codec pack for it to function properly. Can I install the shark bundle of codecs after the fact on to my system so I can for instance have MKV playback on my PC as well?

Thanks

A320 said:

Quick question. I just recently isntalled TVersity, which if you're familiar with, provides a network streaming solution for accessing and transcoding your movies on the fly to my xbox360 for example.

It obviously comes with it's own codec pack for it to function properly. Can I install the shark bundle of codecs after the fact on to my system so I can for instance have MKV playback on my PC as well?

Thanks

Here is a quote that you will find interesting . . .
I do not own the hardware, I cannot speak from personal experience.

Here is what worked for me...
Clean install of Win 7 Ultimate 64Bit straight from MSDN. Installed Shark007's Win7 Codecs version 1.2.7 dated 8/4/2009 and then Shark007's x64 Components version 2.0.6 (website says 2.0.5 but MajorGeeks says 2.0.6). After that I installed Tversity Pro and just accepted all the defalults until it wanted to install its codec pack, I told it not to do that and then finished up. Went into the setup of TVersity and made the normal changes, Video resolution 1920 x 1080, Wired 100 Network, Optimize for Quality, Minimum Compression, had it update the libraries every hour, also make sure that you log into the Tversity service with a local account with admin rights, thats all I can remember. It was the smoothest, cleanest, easiest install / setup of a PC and Tversity I have ever had. Went into the Library setup of Tversity added my Home Server Video, Music and Photo shares and I also made one for a directory on that pc called NewMKVs and added that. Fired up my Xbox 360 and Tversity was there, went in and watched Coraline and Breakfast Club and an episode of Philanthropist, they were are pristine, didnt matter if it was coming from the driectory on my pc or from the homeserver, results were the same. I had no buffering or stutters, it just worked, frankly I could not believe it.

The original text can be found over at TheGreenButton forums

Thanks for the info. As for the Tversity setup described in the quote, I had pretty much the exact same experience. Installed it, but in my case accepted the codecs included with TVersity, made the routine setup changes for HD output and transcoding just like the quote states and had the exact same results, fired up the xbox, no hassles, and there everything was, just like when I was running XP before.

I think though I will try uninstalling TVersity AND it's associated codec pack and try doing it in the order described above. Is there anything more I need to know about making sure all codecs are completely removed or should I assume the uninstaller should clean everything. There are 2 entries in my software list in control panel for uninstall right now:

TVersity codec pack
and Tversity itself

Shark,
Great project. Thank you.
Your Win7codecs are just what clients have been asking for; something that generally works at the default settings, is easy to tweak if necessary, and can be reset easily to Windows defaults.
So far its doing exactly its job on several installations of Windows 7 RTM.
Tom

Shark, just some interesting info. The new MSE flagged 1.2.9 up as unclassified. So Ive sent it off.