RE: MPEG-2 Playback problem

Seems most likely that your "active" MPEG-2 decoder is not compatible with
MCE 2005. Do you know what MPEG-2 decoders are installed on your system?
Microsoft has made a nifty decoder checker utility available exactly for such
situations.

If you don't have the utility, you can get it from:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=de1491ac-0ab6-4990-943d-627e6ade9fcb&displaylang=en&Hash=W44XKX7

Once you run this utility, you will most likely see that the offending
decoder might work fine with WMP10, but not with MCE 2005.

Let me know if that worked for you.

-- Pat


"JimF" wrote:

> WinXPMCE is installed and everything seems to be working just fine.
>
> Our Sony Handycam came with software to get videos from the camera onto the
> PC. This too seems to work just fine.
>
> The Sony software has a feature to convert the video to Mpeg-2 format. I
> save this file to a directory of "my videos" for use in MC.
>
> When I attempt to play these Mpeg-2 files, I get a screen that there was an
> "UNKNOWN ERROR" in attempting to play the video. Love those "unknown
> errors"!! :-)
>
> Anyway my first thought was that the Sony software improperly encoded the
> video file. BUT - going back into XP mode and playing the file with Windows
> Media Player reveals the file DOES PLAY just fine!
>
> So, what would cause a file to play with Windows Media Player but crash in
> Media Center?
>
> Thanks,
> Jim ô¿ô
>
.

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