Whenever I try to play a video file in windows media center, it says that
there is a problem and either closes or restarts. This extends from shows I
tape off TV to DVDs to files I have downloaded to the files that came on the
computer. It plays music fine and shows pictures without problem. WinAmp
can play the video files I have downloaded without issue as well, though
Windows Media Player does not work for video.

It also seems to record television fine. I can see a thumbnail of the show
afterwards, but if I try to watch it, it shuts down. The files it records to
are also unable to play in WinAmp. Does anyone know what my problem is? It
seems a windows software issue, but I can't find any drivers that are old and
the media center itself is up to date.

Have you installed Nero on your system? If yes this might be the cause of
your problems, regretfully I have not yet come across a full proof solution
to the problems Nero causes.

"George Hargrave" George wrote in
message ...
Whenever I try to play a video file in windows media center, it says that
there is a problem and either closes or restarts. This extends from shows
I
tape off TV to DVDs to files I have downloaded to the files that came on
the
computer. It plays music fine and shows pictures without problem. WinAmp
can play the video files I have downloaded without issue as well, though
Windows Media Player does not work for video.

It also seems to record television fine. I can see a thumbnail of the
show
afterwards, but if I try to watch it, it shuts down. The files it records
to
are also unable to play in WinAmp. Does anyone know what my problem is?
It
seems a windows software issue, but I can't find any drivers that are old
and
the media center itself is up to date.

I don't have Nero installed on my computer, but I've researched it a little
further. I installed and then uninstalled some codecs. Without XVid, I can
listen to some TV shows in Media Player, I just can't get video. With XVid,
the program crashes. Without XVid, I can't play files correctly through
WinAmp. With it, I can.

"JW" wrote:

Have you installed Nero on your system? If yes this might be the cause of
your problems, regretfully I have not yet come across a full proof solution
to the problems Nero causes.

Which exact XVid crash are you getting?
http://zachd.com/pss/pss.html#bucket
will help you identify the specific crash.

There's a lot of crashes here, and they aren't using version numbers, which
makes looking into their crashes difficult for now (I believe they've been
advised on that, but will check).

What do they say about this? In theory they should be responsive...

Have you tried using FFDshow instead of XVid? In theory there's three or
more diferent codecs you could use here that all do the same thing, so if
one crashes, uninstall and try the other. =\

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See http://zachd.com/pss/pss.html for some helpful WMP info.
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
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"George Hargrave" wrote in
message ...
I don't have Nero installed on my computer, but I've researched it a little
further. I installed and then uninstalled some codecs. Without XVid, I
can
listen to some TV shows in Media Player, I just can't get video. With
XVid,
the program crashes. Without XVid, I can't play files correctly through
WinAmp. With it, I can.

"JW" wrote:

Have you installed Nero on your system? If yes this might be the cause
of
your problems, regretfully I have not yet come across a full proof
solution
to the problems Nero causes.

It appears that the codec activity has destroyed and/or removed some of the
files in the MS provided decoder which is used by MC in Vista.
Possibly a Vista repair will reinstall the MS default decoder.
Another option may be to install the 30 day free trial of the NVIDIA Decoder
and then use the utility in the following link to switch MC from using the
MS decoder to the Nvidia Decoder.

http://mediacenterexpert.blogspot.co...r-utility.html


"zachd [MSFT]" wrote in message
...

Which exact XVid crash are you getting?
http://zachd.com/pss/pss.html#bucket
will help you identify the specific crash.

There's a lot of crashes here, and they aren't using version numbers,
which makes looking into their crashes difficult for now (I believe
they've been advised on that, but will check).

What do they say about this? In theory they should be responsive...

Have you tried using FFDshow instead of XVid? In theory there's three or
more diferent codecs you could use here that all do the same thing, so if
one crashes, uninstall and try the other. =\

--
Speaking for myself only.
See http://zachd.com/pss/pss.html for some helpful WMP info.
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
rights.
--

"George Hargrave" wrote in
message ...
I don't have Nero installed on my computer, but I've researched it a
little
further. I installed and then uninstalled some codecs. Without XVid, I
can
listen to some TV shows in Media Player, I just can't get video. With
XVid,
the program crashes. Without XVid, I can't play files correctly through
WinAmp. With it, I can.

"JW" wrote:

Have you installed Nero on your system? If yes this might be the cause
of
your problems, regretfully I have not yet come across a full proof
solution
to the problems Nero causes.