We recently got the 8.1 update on our laptop. We are now unable to play DVDs in Windows Media Center. Cannot figure out the problem. I am not liking this update.
ASUS DirectCU II HD7790-DC2OC-2GD5 Radeon HD 7790 2GB 128-Bit GDDR5
Sound Card
MOTU Traveler firewire interface
Hard Drives
1 Seagate Barracuda SATA II system/boot drive 80 GB, 2 Western Digital hdds - 1 is SATA II Caviar Black 1 TB attached to card (assorted media, page, temp), other is SATA I 420 GB (games, media, downloads)
PSU
Thermaltake 450W
Cooling
stock Gateway cooling, extra large fan in rear of case
It uses hardware acceleration by default as part of the EVR custom renderer.
What that means is that it uses the GPU to decode and present the video. You will notice that CPU use remains extremely low when only playing a video and doing nothing else on the system.
ASUS DirectCU II HD7790-DC2OC-2GD5 Radeon HD 7790 2GB 128-Bit GDDR5
Sound Card
MOTU Traveler firewire interface
Hard Drives
1 Seagate Barracuda SATA II system/boot drive 80 GB, 2 Western Digital hdds - 1 is SATA II Caviar Black 1 TB attached to card (assorted media, page, temp), other is SATA I 420 GB (games, media, downloads)
PSU
Thermaltake 450W
Cooling
stock Gateway cooling, extra large fan in rear of case
Great Advice, and VLC too, VLC will play what MPC-HC cannot. Use Both.
Use VLC for MKV and AVI files, MPC-HC for DVDs, it works really well that way. VLC needs no and has no extra codecs, for MPC HC only use that codec he said, don't get Shark Codec pack or anything similar. Just the basics.
Asus M2N-MX SE Plus § DualCore AMD Athlon 64 X2, 2300 MHz (11.5 x 200) 4400+ § Corsair Value Select
CPU
AMD 4400+/4200+
Motherboard
Asus M2N-MX SE Plus/Asus A8M2N-LA (NodusM)
Memory
2 GB/3GB
Graphics Card(s)
GeForce 8400 GS/GeForce 210
Sound Card
nVIDIA GT218 - High Definition Audio Controller
Monitor(s) Displays
Hitachi 40" LCD HDTV
Screen Resolution
"1842 x 1036"
Hard Drives
WDC WD50 00AAKS-007AA SCSI Disk Device
ST1000DL 002-9TT153 SCSI Disk Device
WDC WD3200AAJB-00J3A0 ATA Device
WDC WD32 WD-WCAPZ2942630 USB Device
WD My Book 1140 USB Device
PSU
Works 550w
Case
MSI "M-Box"
Cooling
Water Cooled
Keyboard
Dell Keyboard
Mouse
Microsoft Intellimouse
Internet Speed
Cable Medium Speed
Browser
Chrome/IE 10
Antivirus
Eset NOD32 6.x/Win Defend
Other Info
Recently lost my Windows 8 on my main PC, had to go back to Windows 7.