Media Player 11 Codec Plugins On Windows Vista Business

Neil,

Thanks for taking a shot, but I'm going to have to keep "plugging-along"
even further.

I am painfully aware that a DVD codec did not come with Media Player 11 in
Vista Business, or I wouldn't be up here on this forum, desperately seeking
one; the fact that one doesn't seem to be readily available is an inexcusable
oversight on Microsoft's part.

Don't give me a new car and then say I'm going to have to go out on my own
and find a battery for it to make it run, please.

I did indeed download the DecCheck app and it showed that all of 2 codecs
(out of the 8 which came with and were installed by the Roxio program) were
compatible, but as I mentioned, they only work with the Sonic Cine Player
included in Roxio Easy Media Creator 9, not with Media Player 11 - it is
apparently still as dead as a doornail until it gets its "own" codec plugin.

That's my point: I want to use Media Player 11 (which I'm used to) and not
have to depend on some 3rd-rate, 3rd-party media player to play my videos.

Also, it's worth noting that while DecCheck flagged these 2 lonely codecs as
"MCE Compatible" it did not list them as being "MP 10 Compatible" - I think
it's also suspicious that the DecCheck program makes no mention whatsoever
about Media Player 11, meaning it has not been updated in a long time.

As for the NVIDIA decoder being Vista-compatible, I can only refer you to
these 2 links from their own Website (read the first sentence at the top of
the page under "System Requirements" for the 1st link):

http://www.nvidia.com/object/dvd_decoder_sysreqs.html

Now this one:

http://nvidia.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/nvidia.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=117&p_created=1099523845&p_sid=JkpqsLti&p_accessibility=0&p_redirect=&p_lva=&p_sp=cF9zcmNoPTEmcF9zb3J0X2J5PSZwX2dyaWRzb3J0PSZwX3Jvd19jbnQ9NyZwX3Byb2RzPTQmcF9jYXRzPTAmcF9wdj0xLjQmcF9jdj0mcF9zZWFyY2hfdHlwZT1hbnN3ZXJzLnNlYXJjaF9mbmwmcF9wYWdlPTEmcF9zZWFyY2hfdGV4dD1WaXN0YQ**&p_li=&p_topview=1

Or simply read this (Answer ID 117), direct from NVIDIA's Knowledgbase:

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Question: Is the NVIDIA Purevideo Decoder software supported under
Microsoft Windows XP 64-bit edition, Microsoft Windows Server 2003 64-bit
edition, Windows Vista 32-bit editon, or Windows Vista 64-bit Edition?

Answer: The NVIDIA Purevideo DVD Decoder software is designed to be used
under Microsoft Windows XP 32-bit edition family and Microsoft Windows 2000.
It is NOT supported under any other operating system, such as Microsoft
Windows XP 64-Bit Edition, Windows Vista 32-bit Edition or Windows Vista
64-bit edition. There are no plans at this time to support additional
operating systems at this time.
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The bottom line is this: Since more and more people are compelled to do CBT
(Comptuer Based Training) at their desk and all such programs now come on a
DVD, simply saying a machine with Vista Business on it has no need of a
DVD-capable Windows Media Player (and hence no DVD codec available for it) is
a non-starter. And God forbid somebody with a Home Office should ever want
to play a movie on their Vista Business computer occasionally!

So, the question still remains (and somebody out there MUST have the
answer), where can one obtain a DVD codec for Media Player 11 on a
"non-Entertainment" version of Vista?

If all else fails, why can't I (and countless other people) simply download
and install the same one Microsoft makes available in their other versions of
Vista? It just can't be that big a deal.

Either that or tell me where I can go get the thing commercially; I don't
care, I just want Media Player 11 inside of this high-dollar operating system
I just bought to work like it did in XP Professional (yes, another so-called
"business" version of the operating system, where DVDs played flawlessly).

Thanks, and standing by for a truly workable solution to the problem.

As they used to say on the X Files, "The Truth is out there somewhere"

"Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media]" wrote:

On Thu, 8 Feb 2007 01:27:01 -0800, Travis
<Travis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I have a new Dell Dimension 9200 with the highest-end NVIDIA card they offer
(GeForce 7900 GS) with Vista Business and Media Player 11 (of course).

I'm pretty sure Vista Business doesn't come with a DVD decoder
preinstalled, though it comes on Home Premium and Ultimate. I guess
the idea is that business computers aren't intended as entertainment
devices, though obviously training DVDs come under "business" ;-)

I just installed Roxio Easy Media Creator 9 (the latest version, which is
Vista-compatible) and when I try to play a garden-variety commercial DVD it
loads and plays fine in the Roxio/Sonic Cine Player which came with EMC 9.

However, I want it to play on Media Player 11, which it won't do due to the
proper codec plugin not being installed.

You can confirm that the Roxio DVD decoder is not WMP compatible by
running the DecCheck program from Microsoft (which also allows you to
set preferred decoder as well as showing which installed ones "work")

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=DE1491AC-0AB6-4990-943D-627E6ADE9FCB&displaylang=en

is that all the major vendors there (my preferred one is NVIDA, since that's
the video card I have) say their software is for use on XP only and is not
Vista compatible, even though I got there through a link inside of the Vista

NVidia's Purevideo decoder works just fine in Vista :
http://www.nvidia.com/object/dvd_decoder.html

There was a rumor that Microsoft actually had one which they provide in
other versions of Vista, but I can't find any additional information on how
to get ahold of it.

HTH
Cheers - Neil
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Digital Media MVP : 2004-2007
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/mvpfaqs

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