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More => Old Versions => Media Center 14 (Development Ended) => Topic started by: YannisA on November 27, 2009, 10:53:05 am
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At home I'm using a WHS computer to store all my media, such as music (flac), photos (jpg) and video (DVDs, mkv and Divx Avi).
On this computer, I have installed MC14 and i'm running Library server. No codecs have been installed.
Accessing the video library from a client, Dvds, Avis and Mkvs show with a generic cover-art picture, unless I have tagged them.
On a similar (experimental) setup in the office (where the role of the server is played by a XP workstation with codecs installed), I can see from the client (for avis and mkvs), a cover-art for them, which is the first frame of the movie.
Is it because of the existence of codecs there and further, should I install them on the WHS also?
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In order to generate thumbnails for videos on the server, MC needs to build DirectShow filter graphs. That means it needs to load video decoders.