As we're all likely aware of by now media center won't be supported (or even installable) in Windows 10. This inspired a look at alternatives. We (my wife and I) use media center to watch and record ...

Want to turn your PC into a digital video recorder and media center box? For more than a decade Microsoft has made that by offering Windows Media Center. But when Windows 10 ships in the summer of ...

Out of the box, Windows 11 comes with a fairly solid media player, which is aptly called Media Player, or Windows Media Player. These days, the Windows Media Player is very different from the one you ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Microsoft never fully killed off the classic Windows Media Player ...

Encoder complexity controls how hard the encoder works to encode the video. There are six levels in the v11 codecs with about an eight-fold difference in encoding speed from slowest to fastest, and ...