Re: Media Center with Vista

In my experience, the MPEG2 decoder is already included.

However, the video card needs to be good enough (ATI Radeon 9800 or higher,
or Nvidia FX 5200 or higher) otherwise, you'll get that same message. I
tried it with a bum video card just to see what would happen, and that was
the error I got... had to re-run the the System Performance rating tool
before things worked with the new video card.

So the pertinent question to the OP would be... what video card do you have
in your system?

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"Doug Knox MS-MVP" <dknox@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Visit Windows Update again. There should be a DVD decoder (required for
Live/Recorded TV and DVD usage) included in the build. Additionally, your
video card must meet certain requirements for Media Center in Vista. An
unsupported card can cause "decoder" errors, as well as a missing DVD
Decoder.

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"Lawless" <Lawless@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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That did it, thanks. Now MCE is asking for a decoder, where can I get the
best one?

"Lawless" wrote:

I have a 550 Pro ATI Tuner but I can't get Vista to recognize it when
using
Media Center. I went to ATI's website but they don't offer a Vista driver
for
that tuner.
Does anybody have any suggestions?


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