PurePVR

Some of you who have built your own Windows XP Media Center Edition PVR / DVR may have run into issues in the past playing DivX or xvid files through Media Center. Well the reason behind that is because MCE does not natively support these formats when played on the HTPC. There are a couple of solutions to this problem, but the easiest is probably to install the ffdshow utility.

ffdshow is not necessarily a MCE plugin, but it is a utility that easily helps you play these newer media files. Aside from just letting you play these new media files, it also allows a lot of customization for you audio/video connoisseurs out there.

The ffdshow project home page can be found here.

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