[SharmanNet]

Windows 7 comes ready to play all your favorite "downloaded" videos.

One of the new features announced at the recent Windows 7 Reviewer’s Workshop in LA is that Windows 7 will natively support a number of popular media formats, so that users don’t have to worry about finding, installing and downloading third-party codecs.

This is an evolution in media support which is similar to the inclusion of native MPEG-2 playback in Windows Vista, providing the DVD playback functionality which was missing in Windows XP.

Windows 7 will also support H.264 video and AAC audio. The support for AAC will be welcome news for people with music and video that has been encoded in Apple iTunes, as Windows 7 will be able to play all iTunes media through Windows Media Player.Unfortunately, this won't apply to media that has been purchased from Apple's iTunes store, because Windows 7 can't decode the Apple FairPlay DRM, which Apple refuses to license to anyone else.

News: ApcMag

[Syzygy]

They should just pre-install K-Lite Codec Pack or something.

[Preath]

Wow, thats nice. Another good thing to keep Windows clean from software that slowdown the computer. And yet another thing to make you use just ONE media player and not two or more to just play some other fileformats.

[InlineSkate]

Keep it up MS GJ

[FalseAgent]

kickass! No more itunes just for AAC, and no more extra settings to meddle around with when i'm playing a DivX movie! (DivX places a icon in the systray, right?)

[arkanbh]

i'm testing de 6801

but XVID movies crashed....

[endrit10]

XVID is a dieing codec.
DivX owns my bones.

Microsoft is really opening thier horizons.

They are coming out with built in reg cleaners, tweakers.
Theres even rumors that there will not be a need to patch UXTheme.
It will come fully customizeable to maximize looks and performance.

During install they will let you choose software, but i think that you should get questions like:

Do you have one computer that uses one connection?
Will more than one person be using this computer?
Do you use wireless internet?
Etc Etc

and if you click yes/no it disables/enables some services that do/dont apply to you
Will really improve out of box performance

This post has been edited by endrit10: 03 November 2008 - 04:27 PM

[arkanbh]

endrit10, on Nov 3 2008, 04:24 PM, said:

XVID is a dieing codec.
DivX owns my bones.

Microsoft is really opening thier horizons.

my movies xxx using xvid codec

the M$ expandig he horizons...but the slowing in boot is very poor...

i hate the waiting....

the w7 is runing in virtualbox...2 days with errors.

[endrit10]

Your the only one so far that i PERSONALLY know of that has issues with W7

[InlineSkate]

arkanbh, on Nov 3 2008, 02:58 PM, said:

endrit10, on Nov 3 2008, 04:24 PM, said:

XVID is a dieing codec.
DivX owns my bones.

Microsoft is really opening thier horizons.

my movies xxx using xvid codec

the M$ expandig he horizons...but the slowing in boot is very poor...

i hate the waiting....

the w7 is runing in virtualbox...2 days with errors.

Running it in a vm is probably your problem.

[Culprit]

very nice i like that

[CommonSense]

Does this mean WMP can play .avi now?

It could never play the video, I only heard sound. Thank God for VLC

[endrit10]

VLC OWNS.

But the only thing is that its so f**king ugly!

Still its my main and only media player.

[CommonSense]

Skin it

I use the WMP 11 Skin. It looks... uh... better. That's the word

[Elijah?]

CommonSense, on Nov 3 2008, 03:23 PM, said:

Does this mean WMP can play .avi now?

It could never play the video, I only heard sound. Thank God for VLC

Thank the lord.
Limewire will be so much easier to use out of the box.