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chronowerx

Posted: Monday, April 19, 2010 9:39:13 PM

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Hi;
I'm a complete noob to My Movies, so apologies if I have failed searching the forums but I can't find an answer that fits my problem..

I have been having great fun organising my movies over the past week and have now fired up the media center PC to watch a few.
I can watch everything I've tried so far except MKV files -if I try to play one it says "there was not any valid media found" although there is a nicely named .mkv file in that folder.
If I try the same with an AVI file it plays fine.

If I go into Collection Manager and change the discs to 'online file' and manually specify the file I want, it plays perfectly.
(I've got .mkv associated with Media Player Classic Home Cinema x64).

Is there a way to get it to play without having to go through every movie folder manually, find if it's an mkv, and if so specify it as a 'file' not 'folder'?
(If not, is there a way to get My Movies to scan my folders and automatically do this?)

Thanks in advance for any help!

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My setup is:
1. My Movies Version 3.13 - 2500 points (21 day trial).
2. Server 2003 box hosting the files and running collection management server.
3. Win7 x64 box as Media Center with My Movies connected to the server.
4. .NET 1.0.3705 // 1.1.4322 // 2.0.50727 // v3.0 // v3.5 installed.
5. Microsoft Security Essentials is the only security software on the MC box, Server has nothing.
6. All machines are fully patched.
7. In the attached log (if I figure how to attach it!) I open and successfully play 'Bolt' as I have manually specified it as a file. The second file 'Iron Man' fails as "not any valid media found".

File Attachment(s):
log.txt (61kb) downloaded 0 time(s).

bslater0

Posted: Monday, April 19, 2010 10:10:17 PM

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You probably need to associate the .mkv extension with WMP/WMC. Although MPC-HC can play the file just fine, Win7 and WMP don't know that .mkv is a valid media type out-of-the-box. Once you tell WMP it should handle an mkv MM should also know it's a valid media type and locate it as a media file it when you have it pointed to an "Online (Folder)". Here is some info. I think all you will need is "Step 3" of this article but you may want to Google around for various solutions. Associating mkv with WMP won't hurt anything with MPC although it may make the default mkv handler WMP now. You'll have to go back and reassociate the .mkv type with MPC through it's interface if you want it to launch on a file double-click, etc. but it still should still also work w/ WMP after that. Everybody like to be on top.

chronowerx

Posted: Monday, April 19, 2010 10:39:40 PM

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bslater0 wrote:

That worked perfectly!
Thank you - I had to follow all three steps to get it to work, but it's playing everything I can throw at it now Laughing

and it's still using GPU acceleration properly.

My Movies rules - I found you guys from the HD Nation My Movies Epsiode and will be buying points as soon as my trial runs out.
(You should give away a few 'points packs' to viewers or something to get your name out there).

Thanks again Cool

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