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Office 2010 Key Sale, four May possibly 2011
BEFORE COMMENCING WITH THIS GUIDE, IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED TO CREATE A SYSTEM RESTORE POINT. I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE IF YOUR PC STOPS FUNCTIONING AS NORMAL
OK, over with the formalities,
Office 2010 Sale, now lets get down to business
FFDShow is an excellent Decoder for Video formats,
Office Professional Plus Key, Audio formats and now incorporates DXVA 1.0 & 2.0 decoding for h264 & VC-1 formats and copes with subtitles in WMP & MCE
What I aim to do in this guide is to help setup what you might need to get your codecs working right, add post processing filters, resizing your movies to fill your screen. Also how to turn any 2.0 mp3 audio stream into full Dolby Digital 5.1 (AC3) output.
If you require HD audio setting up,
Buy Microsoft Office 2007, then See Wolvers Guide to HDAudio Bitstreaming in MKV to allow native play of HD audio in WMP and MCE (without the requirement for MPC-HC to run as an external player).
So Firstly,
Office 2010 Sale title,
Windows 7 Ultimate 64, you will need to download latest SVN build of FFDShow - Available Here. If you are on an x86 (32bit) setup then select the "sse icl11" build. On both x86 & x64 bit you will then go to a warning screen saying that these are not official releases would you like to continue. Select the "I agree" Radio Button and click "Continue".
Once downloaded Install FFDShow - Note - it is NOT important to ensure that you select the correct options when prompted by the installer as we will change them later in the various configurators FFDShow offers from the Start menu. So Just do the usual and keep clicking next until the program has installed.
On the Last Screen of Installation, you will need to select the following configurations, as in screen shot below.
Lets select the Video Decoder Config first. I've highlighted and annotated the images with notes on the left.
Video Codec Filters
Please note that if you are having issues with DXVA decoding then you can disable the highlighted h264/AVC decoder to allow for DXVA to take over but you will lose FFDShow's Video decoder for AVC streams (which means no subtitles for those AVC streams)
Resizing your movies
Post Processing Filter
Subtitles - You can have subtitles selected in both DXVA and Video Decoder Configs.
Finally Sharpening your movie picture