We brought you the news back in June when DivX had first announced their tech preview that brings MKV playback support to Windows 7 via Media Foundation.  The great thing about the tech preview is that because it is using Media Foundation it also allows playback of MKV files on Media Center Extenders! The only real down-side to the story at the time was that it was only available in 32-bit.
The wait for those of you running the 64-bit version of Windows 7 is now over. So head on over …

We’re back for another week and though news all over the site has been slow this week, we think you’ll enjoy the latest episode of Entertainment 2.0.  We cover a few topics this week and really get into some codec and container talk with a special impromptu guest, Jere Jones, creator of Show Analyzer.  Jere was listening to the live show so we decided to get him on to help hash out what the Divx Technology Preview is doing to get MKV files playing on the Xbox 360 extender.  …

The story broke a little while back that Divx was releasing a tech preview to provide support for MKVs within Windows 7.  The great part about this news was that not only would it provide support on your PC itself but because the preview introduced support for Media Foundation, this opened up Media Center extenders as well.
I finally had a chance to install the preview and do a little testing.  While I haven’t been playing with it too much, I wanted to get some information out to our readers …