Eliot Van Buskirk

Hack the Zune to Add Support for Windows Media Center Video Recordings

If you use a Microsoft Windows XP Media Center PC to record television shows to your computer, you may have been puzzled to open your brand new Microsoft Zune to find that it will not play those recordings. Thankfully, a hack has emerged (registration required to download) that adds support for a number of audio, […]

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If you use a Microsoft Windows XP Media Center PC to record television shows to your computer, you may have been puzzled to open your brand new Microsoft Zune to find that it will not play those recordings. Thankfully, a hack has emerged (registration required to download) that adds support for a number of audio, video, and image files, including the DVR-MS format used by Media Center to record TV.

The hack's description points out that it adds AAC support to the Zune, but the Zune has always supported AAC, so I'm a bit confused about that claim. However, the hack also seems to add support for some other semi-useful formats aside from DVR-MS:

Audio: .aac, .aif, .aifc, .aiff, .au, .cda,
.mid, .midi, .rmi, .snd, and .wav files are now automatically added toyour library and later converted and synced with the Zune device. Theywill not play in your Zune program, though.Video: .asf, .avi, .dvr-ms, .m1v, .m2v, .mod,
.mp2, .mp2v, .mpa, .mpe, .mpeg, .mpg, .mpv2, and .wm videos are nowautomatically added to your library and later converted and synced withthe Zune device. They will not play in your Zune program, though.Images: .png, .bmp, .gif, and many other imagefile types have been found as being supported by the Zune program (youcan open and view them with it - try it out!), but as of yet theycannot be added to the library or synced to your device.

Zune Multi-Extension Support Hack

(via lifehacker)