March 15, 2007 By 29 Comments

The Best Windows Media Center Tweak Ever

Media Center I’ve had a Media Center PC for quite some time now and this is the best Media Center Tweak I have ever found.  It improves your video quality in some cases ten fold!

I love the new Vista Media Center, by far one of the most amazing pieces of software ever written by Microsoft, however, I was so disappointed at the quality I was getting!  I would literally plug in S-Video into my TV, and then into Media Center, and the quality was so terrible! 

I had to find a solution!  And I’m glad to say I have!  All you need to do is edit the Registry and change the DefAvgBitRate value to a much higher value than is currently in the system.  By default its set to 20000000.  I set it to 80000000 and the quality improvement was astonishing!  Even my wife noticed!

Where is this key?

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Media Center/Service/Video/Tuners/DVR

Why does this work so well?  Simple.  What you are doing here is changing the default bitrate that Media Center will record television shows at.  Every time you watch television, you are watching recorded TV.

Enjoy vastly improved video!

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    Didn’t improve much on my Hauppauge HDR 1300 and Nvidia 9600 GSO

  • greg

    that key didn't exist in my registry, I wonder why?

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    Do yourselves a favor people, don't waste time with limited garbage like WMC. Try XBMC or LinuxMCE instead. They can do a whole load of crap and improve on the (SCANT FEW) things WMC can do.

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    Because not Vista? It's not in my Wn7 registry.

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    I found it in XP. Make sure you "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE"…you prob went to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT or HKEY_CURRENT_USER because I mistakenly did it at first.

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