Re: What is Elecard and why do I need it?
From: Nigel Andrews (nandrews_at_clara.co.uk)
Date: 02/08/05
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Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2005 17:27:17 -0000
Thanks Stephen,
I found and downloaded DECCHECK which told me I have 5 MPEG2 codecs
installed! None of them looked like MS software, which I would have expected
to be with MCE as there must have been something there in the first place.
The others are Elecard, Cyberlink, Arcsoft, Ulead and Sonic, with the
Cyberlink marked as 'Preferred' but not compatible with 'synchronisation'!
I followed the option to upgrade Cyberlink but they want money for their
'Power Packs'!
I have a feeling I need to get rid of these and find whatever MS codecs were
originally on MCE as they all used to work.
Nigel
"Stephen Neal" <stephen.neal@nospam.as-directed.com> wrote in message
news:cu7iaq$t0b$1$8302bc10@news.demon.co.uk...
>
> "Nigel Andrews" <nandrews@clara.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:1107708200.95250.0@demeter.uk.clara.net...
> > Hmm that's not very encouraging.
> >
> > Perhaps I need to seperate playing recorded TV and playing other video
> > files
> > (mpeg, avi, etc.) on the MCE PC and playing the same things in WMP
> > although
> > still on the same PC.
> > I am getting the problem playing recorded TV in WMP and also playing
some
> > mpegs in MCE! I have tried downloading and installing a couple of
versions
> > of the Elecard decoder and even the Elecard player. The player plays the
> > mpeg files O.K. but some mpegs in MCE shows the 'evaluation expired'
> > message
> > which is weird! If the Elecard player finds the codec or came with the
> > right
> > codec why doesn't MCE find it?
>
> Might not work with MCE 2004 - but there is a DECCHECK program on the MS
> site that shows you which MPEG2 decoders you have installed, and which one
> is the default.
>
> I had the Elecard trial version installed on mine for a while - it is much
> better at coping with HDTV decoding on lower spec machines than many
> others - but it came with an uninstall option. (There is a warning on
their
> website that when you uninstall, some of the error messages that require a
> response may display BEHIND the installer/uninstaller window, requiring
you
> to drag this window away from its default position to see them BTW)
>
> Sounds like you have got more than one MPEG2 filter installed to me - the
> Elecard one starts adding its own messages (and a little set of moving
> blocks) to any video it decodes once its trial period has expired. You
> wouldn't have noticed if you'd installed this previously and replaced
> existing MPEG2 decoders I guess?
>
> Steve
>
> >
> > Nigel
> >
> >
> > "Manny Otero" <manny_otero@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> > news:IEkNd.388$fc4.49@newsfe1-gui.ntli.net...
> >> Sounds like the symptoms of installing a codec pack with unknown codecs
> > in.
> >> I have had this once and one thing I know, I dont think you will find
it
> > in
> >> add/remove programs. I battled with it for ages and in the end I wiped
> >> the
> >> pc and started again and vowed never to install a codec pack again.
> >>
> >> "Barry Watzman" <WatzmanNOSPAM@neo.rr.com> wrote in message
> >> news:42057791.4070702@neo.rr.com...
> >> > Windows Media Player does not come with an MPEG 2 decoder, but will
use
> >> > one if it's installed. Apparently, you installed, and it's using,
the
> > one
> >> > that is expired. Note, you can have multiple encoders installed, so
> >> > you
> >> > could have one that had expired, and another one that has not
expired.
> >> >
> >> > Can you remove the expired one (is it listed in control panel
> >> > add/remove?)?
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Nigel Andrews wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> Well I now have the Elecard 2.0 player installed with it's codecs
and
> > can
> >> >> play video files in that player O.K.
> >> >> But as before playing the same files in Media Centre shows the same
> >> >> scrolling message about my evaluation period expired!!
> >> >>
> >> >> So it doesn't seem that the Mpeg-2 decoder was need. It is something
> > that
> >> >> has expired in MCE, and just a year after I bought it which is most
> >> >> significant!! Are other people finding there files aren't playing
> >> >> correctly
> >> >> at the anniversary of receiving their MCE PC's?!!
> >> >>
> >> >> Nigel
> >> >>
> >> >> "Robert Schlabbach" <robert_s@gmx.net> wrote in message
> >> >> news:cu27vm$mqk$05$1@news.t-online.com...
> >> >>
> >> >>>"Nigel Andrews" <nandrews@clara.co.uk> wrote in message
> >> >>>news:1107587372.28535.0@damia.uk.clara.net...
> >> >>>
> >> >>>>Please can someone suggest why, on many videos files that I now
play
> > on
> >> >>>>my MCE 2004, I have a scrolling message saying "My Elecard
evaluation
> >> >>
> >> >> has
> >> >>
> >> >>>>expired". Not only that but I also find I get the same if I play
> >> >>
> >> >> recorded
> >> >>
> >> >>>>TV files on Windows Media Player, even though still on the MCE PC!
> >> >>
> >> >> Surely
> >> >>
> >> >>>>I don't have to pay to be able to watch files created by MCE?!!
> >> >>>
> >> >>>You have to pay for an MPEG-2 decoder package, and it seems you
> >> >>>didn't.
> >> >>
> >> >> The
> >> >>
> >> >>>message you are seeing comes from the Elecard MPEG-2 decoder after
its
> >> >>>trial period has expired. You need to purchase and install an MPEG-2
> >> >>>decoder package. Those don't come for free as $2.50 per piece have
to
> > be
> >> >>>paid to the MPEG-LA.
> >> >>>
> >> >>>Regards,«
> >> >>>--
> >> >>>Robert Schlabbach
> >> >>>e-mail: robert_s@gmx.net
> >> >>>Berlin, Germany
> >> >>>
> >> >>>
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >>
> >
> >
>
>
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