Hi all,

I have a load of *.ogm files I created a while ago that I'm trying to watch through my MCE2005 system. However, it doesn't even recognise that they exist in their directory. I've tried changing the file extensions file to *.avi or something else and this works but I'm concerned that this could cause player problems.

Does anyone know if there's another way to get MCE to recognise these files?

Cheers.

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I've just recently come across this particular issue, as I just got my first few .ogm files too.  I found that they played in Media Player no problem, but as you stated they do not show up in MCE.  Will the files still play if changed to .avi?

fish

Yes, changing the file extension to .avi allows MCE to list them, and they play, but obviously this could cause confusion at a later date when you've forgotten how you encoded them!!

Doesn't sound like there's an easy fix for this one.  Oh well.

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"Behold, as a wild ass in the desert; go I forth to my work"

Hi All,

I have a similar issue. I copied some DVDs onto my hard drive, with DVD decrypter. Windows Media Player plays them fine but I cannot have them seen by the WMCE 2005. Any help?

Byyyyeee

Emilio

Copy the following into your text editor of choice, and save it as a .reg file. I've also included the registry entries for MPEG 2 streams, Matroska video/audio, and MPEG 4 streams. Naturally, all these codecs require the appropriate DirectShow filters:

;--BEGIN HERE--

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.ogg]
"PerceivedType"="audio"
"Content Type"="audio/x-ogg"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.ogm]
"PerceivedType"="video"
"Content Type"="video/x-ogg"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.m2v]
"PerceivedType"="video"
"Content Type"="video/mpeg"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.mka]
"PerceivedType"="audio"
"Content Type"="audio/x-matroska"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.mkv]
"PerceivedType"="video"
"Content Type"="video/x-matroska"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.mp4]
"PerceivedType"="video"
"Content Type"="video/mp4"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Multimedia\WMPlayer\Extensions\.ogg]
"Runtime"=dword:00000007
"Permissions"=dword:0000000f
"UserApprovedOwning"="yes"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Multimedia\WMPlayer\Extensions\.ogm]
"Runtime"=dword:00000007
"Permissions"=dword:0000000f
"UserApprovedOwning"="yes"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Multimedia\WMPlayer\Extensions\.m2v]
"Runtime"=dword:00000007
"Permissions"=dword:0000000f
"UserApprovedOwning"="yes"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Multimedia\WMPlayer\Extensions\.mka]
"Runtime"=dword:00000007
"Permissions"=dword:0000000f
"UserApprovedOwning"="yes"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Multimedia\WMPlayer\Extensions\.mkv]
"Runtime"=dword:00000007
"Permissions"=dword:0000000f
"UserApprovedOwning"="yes"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Multimedia\WMPlayer\Extensions\.mp4]
"Runtime"=dword:00000007
"Permissions"=dword:0000000f
"UserApprovedOwning"="yes"

;--END HERE--

Edit: Updated registry file with MIME content types. Should help more, if the other registry file didn't.

I have had a problem with MCE2005 seeing my .avi files.  I was about to try a reinstall, but do you think it may work if I add this to my registry?

;--BEGIN HERE--

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.avi]
"PerceivedType"="video"
"Content Type"="video/avi"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Multimedia\WMPlayer\Extensions\.avi]
"Runtime"=dword:00000007
"Permissions"=dword:0000000f
"UserApprovedOwning"="yes"

;--END HERE--

 

Thanks,

CJ

OK I know you posted this ages ago but i just wanted to say thanks! Really useful for me

Hmmm. I can my Oggs and Musepacks to play in MCE using the above methods, but I can't get MCE2005 to actually list the files. Can anyone tell me what I might be doing wrong?

Thanks.

Alrighty, I added the reg hack today and mce now recognizes and plays my .mkv files. However, I can't get subtitles to show up! What's wrong here?

Now that MCE is playing these files, I have another question.

Is there a way to allow me to change audio tracks in MCE without accessing the system tray? If not, is there a demultiplexer for ogm files that allows a "default language" setting? I've been able to do this with Haali Media Splitter for Matroska, but the OggDS filter that I use doesn't have this option.

The Haali splitter allows the setting of default sub and audio tracks.

I use it, with the latest vsfilter to get subs and multiple audio tracks working. Alas there is no UI within MCE to toggle these. On some of my file the Haali defaults don't work.

I don't believe WMP or Media Center has a way to read embedded subtitles without an external application... If you install VobSub or something it might work. My suggestion is to install ffdshow and have it display the subtitles. It works with just about every video type (Although I can't say I've tried MKV myself)

Wicked. Worked like a charm. Thanks man.

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