@Kévin Chalet Merci pour les infos, c'est très gentil de votre part… Je commence à oublier le français qui j'apprenais à l'école, même si j'ai un diplôme DELF
I would be willing to pay to get WMC back with h265. I would like to see a group of "financiers" created for a possible job...
https://forums.mydigitallife.net/th...ible-alternatives.61061/page-528#post-1783979 So where I need to send my IBAN to get my money Seriously, do you really think that people, (who mostly didn't bother to try free the free method), will pay anything just to solve an already solved problem, just because a slightly simpler installation? People who do such kind of mods do that bacause a personal need, or because the pleasure of winning a technical challenge, or a combination of the two. To earn something is likely better to put a candy crush clone on the playstore.
I got a bit lost, this refers at the installer 8.10 for Windows 8... Is it correct? Is any updated version based on DISM that installs on Windows 10 LTSC? Thank you beforehand
DISM based installers stopped working years ago (IIRC 2017 or so), and even when they worked, they had a lot of failures on non perfectly maintained installations. And even if today you can manage to install via DISM, it will likely break future CUs and other DISM based operations. So forget about them on win 10. Likely is possible to make a DISM installer for W8/W8.1, but what's the supposed advantage?
Abbodi shared his last version(s) here some time ago, with some improvements (and as we discussed, with few regressions). Whatever the last major improvement for the end user experience was done in 2015 when the RDP patch was introduced. Everything else are mostly improvements in the setup process, post 1703 workarounds and other minor fixes (like the enforced autostart of ehtray.exe). In short there isn't any compelling need to "update" a post 8.7 installation.
Thank you for the reply, my TV Tuner card stopped to work today, and even smelling a little burned, what kind of card you @acer-5100 and you @Kévin Chalet can recommend me to buy for replace the old one? I've a PCI Express slot free on the machine. Thank you beforehand
Sadly, I strongly doubt this will ever happen given the insane amount of work that would be required for that: even if someone found the root cause and managed to make that work, the native "MPEG2 video analyzer" DirectShow filter - that is added between the MPEG2 demuxer and the StreamBufferSink that eventually creates the .wtv files - doesn't understand HEVC. Yet it's a vital part of the recording pipeline as it's the component that makes fast rewinding/forwarding possible: without this filter, you're unable to do that and the UX is quite terrible. Edit: there's also all the thumbnail generation stuff that only understands MPEG2 and AVC. As part of my experiments I managed to create .wtv files using libav/ffmpeg with various codecs (e.g VP9) and you can watch such files in WMC... but: 1. No fast forwarding: the video immediately stops if you try. 2. No thumbnails generation at all: all your recordings have an horrible blue thumbnail, which seriously degrades the UX. That said, the idea of offering a bounty isn't bad at all and could help motivate the few people on Earth who have the advanced DirectShow skills required to make that possible
Definitely. I'm willing to put my money where my mouth is by offering $5000 for the whole shebang. If other backers decide to join the initiative, maybe it could motivate someone? I disagree: WTV is a much better container than anything else currently used in most DVR/PVR programs as it's one of the very few "self-contained containers" options where most of the metadata about a program is stored as rich attributes in the .wtv file itself. Compare that to other PVRs that either: - Use the file name to retrieve the program details using an online service (and are often very wrong as the same program name can point to very different programs). - Use a separate file to store the program details. - Keep the program details in an internal database. - Don't store any metadata at all... On smartphones, VLC has absolutely no issue working with .wtv files. I haven't tried it, but Infuse should work fine too.
Each person has his preference. Personally I like to organize my files in old school folders/subfolders, which doesn't rely on a specific program to be organized. Also while i like WMC for live TV, EPG integration, reliable timeshift and file seek, for already recorded shows/movies I vastly prefer to use something else, like MPC-HC. The flexible zoom alone is a must when watching videos that have a mismatched aspect ratio 4/3 videos on 16/9 screens (and viceversa), 2.39:1 movies on 16/9 screens and so on. WMC has the zoom feature yes, but it's inflexible and often useless. A minimal option to have a 14/9 fixed zoom would have made WMC a lot of better. That's just one thing. Saturation/Contrast/Brightness controls is another big argument, but there are many other. In short while I'm not here to advertise other programs, I want to point out that as good as it is WMC has a lot of room for improvements, and also that programs aren't wives, monogamy isn't mandatory Sure, current MX player for android plays them as well, but that's the scenario of 2024 SW and OSes, while I like to multi boot in anithyng can run on my machines. Does MX player running on android 4 understand them as well? What about XP or Vista, what about BeOS/Haiku?
The cool thing is that nothing prevents you from doing that: the rich metadata stored in a container like WTV can definitely be used to organize the folders the way you want: when the program is being recorded or even much later when reorganizing things. The other way around is way more painful Definitely. Well, these platforms are so old they will likely be unable to decode AVC or HEVC efficiently anyway (for Windows XP, there's no codec available OOTB so you need a third-party one. And if you have XP installed on an old machine, it's likely it doesn't offer hardware decoding). Independently of the container used, you're pretty much f**ked trying to use such old platforms. Edit: BTW, remuxing WTV files to a different container type (e.g Matroska) without touching the video/audio/subtitles streams only takes a few seconds using ffmpeg, so if exporting recordings to an smartphone or PC is your thing, it's a non-issue IMHO.