Playing DivX and Xvid with Windows Media Center

If you have on your PC running Windows Vista with Windows Media Center, hoping to be able to exploit the full potential provided by the Media Center (including streaming towards' s XBox 360) have discovered after a few moments and with no small ramar that you can not play DivX movies e Xvid. In fact, Microsoft is well guarded by allowing the operation: Even if you install the appropriate codec and Media Player supports it without problems, the Media Center is not able to exploit.

What you need to resolve the problem with movies DivX and Xvid is the "Media Control Plugin for Windows Vista Media Center." This plugin makes your Windows Vista Media Center can use ffdshow, a package of open-source codec popular: the release is the recommended rev 1108 which can be downloaded from http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffdshow- tryout.

Once installed ffdshow your Media Center will be able to play safely and all the MPEG-4 formats best known as DivX, Xvid, H.264 is also audio formats like MP3, AAC, Dolby AC3 and OGG Vorbis.

The Media Control Plugin also provides a variety of additional features including: