Re: What is Elecard and why do I need it?
From: Jason Tsang (jason-onlineDEL_at_ETEmvps.org)
Date: 02/08/05
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Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2005 12:44:20 -0500
Microsoft has not created nor provided any of their own MPEG2 codecs.
Hopefully you weren't looking for them as it'd be a fruitless search.
Would recommend you use NVidia's DVD decoder.
-- Jason Tsang - Microsoft MVP Find out about the MS MVP Program - http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/default.aspx "Nigel Andrews" <nandrews@clara.co.uk> wrote in message news:1107883404.19327.0@damia.uk.clara.net... > 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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