Re: Vista Media Center - Equalizer (Possible Bug?)

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I don't know what to suggest for resources there - I know there's a
separate media center newsgroup though. For web resources I would stat
at the Green Button site : http://thegreenbutton.com where people
often upload pretty polished utilities (such as this WMP <-> iTMS
converter : http://thegreenbutton.com/forums/thread/34552.aspx)

HTH
Cheers - Neil

On Tue, 6 Feb 2007 14:04:01 -0800, al_ku
<alku@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Thank you for your answer.
So there's no way to change the equalizer for the Video section of Media
Center without writing an own plugin/application for Media Center?
I happen to be a C++/C# developer myself so I guess I can do that. Can you
point me in the right direction to just simply "overwrite" the currently
used/set equalizer in Media Center Video?
Thank you.


"Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media]" wrote:

On Mon, 5 Feb 2007 15:32:00 -0800, al_ku
<al_ku@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hello guys,
I have Windows Vista (EN-US) with all recent updates.
I'm using my own custom equalizer in Windows Media Player because, let's
face it, the given ones are just silly ;) So when I use the Windows Media
Center (which is, by the way, just awesome) to listen to music it appears to
use my equalizer, which is good and what I expected since it doesn't seem to
provide it on its own. However, when I use Windows Media Center to watch my
videos it cleary does NOT use my equalizer. In fact, I think it doesn't use
any equalizer at all.
I tested it with a couple of formats (DivX, (S)VCD, Xvid) and even with
music videos (just to get a better comparison between the WMP playback and
the WMC playback).
So, is this a possible bug or am I missing something? Maybe I can set the
equalizer on my own somehow (registry?)?


I'm not aware of something which does that, because these are
distinct, separate applications (although they may happen to share
some underlying pieces like media foundation)

I guess it's possible for somebody to write such an application, as
both WMP and WMC have SDKs available - it's not something I'm aware of
though.

I guess you have to bear in mind, the EQ settings for music may be
very different from those used for DTV or DVD movies and so on. They
probably wouldn't cross over very well from WMP to WMC.

Cheers - Neil
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