Let Windows 7 Media Center support more file formats and folders

In Media Center, media files are divided into three categories: "My Video", "My Pictures", and "My Music". This article concludes with Media Center supporting more media formats in these three categories.

"My Pictures"

The content in "My Pictures" defaults to the pictures in the "Pictures" folder of the system. You can add other folders you need.

The list of folders added by the user is saved in the "HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionMedia CenterMediaFoldersImage" item in the registry. MediaCenter's Add Delete File Plus feature does not see the "My Documents" folder. If you want to add a subfolder of "My Documents", you can create a new one in this registry location. Pay attention to the “FolderCount” item, which saves the number of custom folders to be displayed. After adding the folder you want, you need to modify this value accordingly.

File format support situation - basically the currently used image file format is supported in Media Center, which can meet the needs of users.

"My Music"

Media Center's "My Music" function is directly called by Windows Media Player 10, which lists the songs in the WMP10's media library. song. To add a song, just add the song to the WMP10 media library.

WMP only supports adding a limited number of file formats to the media library by default. Please install the following attachment (WMPTagSupportExtender.1.4, note: this plugin does not include a decoder), you will be able to add the following format audio files to the WMP10 media library, and you can add song information:

- Monkey's audio (* .ape)

- MusePack (*.mpc,*.mpp,*.mp+)

- WavPack (*.wv)

- OptimFROG (*.ofr)

- FLAC (*.flac)

- Vorbis Comments (*.ogg)

- MPEG4 (*.M4A,*.AAC,*.MP4,*. M4P)

(The method of adding Real format audio has been developed, announced later)

"My Video"

The content displayed by default is the user's "My" Supported files in the Video folder (asf; asx; avi; dvr; dvr-MS; m1v; mp2; mp2v; mpa; mpe; mpeg; mpg; mpv2; wm; wmv; wmx; wvx). As with "My Pictures", you can also add other folders via the "HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoft WindowsCurrentVersionMedia CenterMediaFoldersVideo" item in the registry.

To enable Media Center to play videos in other formats:

Required Condition 1: Add a registry key so MCE can display it. Someone has provided such a registry file before, but there are some unnecessary key values. In fact, as long as there is a string value "PerceivedType" = "video", any file format can be listed in "My Video", which is necessary for "My Video" to display various files. condition.