Re: Extenders won't play recorded TV or LiveTV

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>> I've got a frustrating problem where my xbox extender and xbox 360 both
>> refusing to play recorded TV or allow watching of LiveTV.

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Doug Knox, MS-MVP Windows Media Center\Windows Powered Smart Display\Security
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"Richard Miller" <autopaint@xxxxxxx> wrote in message news:3086E21B-F986-4B0A-89F3-347F9A80DEC3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi Doug, but he has a video error on the MCE copmuter.
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"Doug Knox - [MS-MVP]" wrote:

Richard, the Media Center Extender functionality is the one place a DVD
decoder does not need to be installed. Live and Recorded TV are rendered to
the Extender by a different process.

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Doug Knox, MS-MVP Windows Media Center\Windows Powered Smart
Display\Security
Win 95/98/Me/XP Tweaks and Fixes
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"Richard Miller" <autopaint@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:8D3BE9A1-16C4-490E-8A0A-22EA320D68C3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Do you have a dvd decoder installed?
> -- > Richard A Miller MCE mvp
> http://www.microsoft.com/mvp
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> "Das Wookie" wrote:
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>> I've got a frustrating problem where my xbox extender and xbox 360 >> both
>> refusing to play recorded TV or allow watching of LiveTV. Last time
>> this occurred, MSFT support told me it was the MCE and to flatten and
>> reinstall. I did, and for a week, it worked... then quit again. I'm
>> getting a video error and told to reboot the MCE box. I've done this
>> about a hundred times, no joy.
>>
>> When I try to watch recorded shows on a XP Pro box with WMP, I've got
>> audio, but no video. I'm guessing this is a drivers or codec problem,
>> but I have no worldly idea at all how to troubleshoot it... >> everything
>> works just find on the MCE box itself.
>>
>> I have both the latest divx and xvid codecs installed, as well as an
>> ac3 codec / filter. These were both installed after the nuke and >> pave,
>> and things still worked. I can't think of anything that changed after
>> the nuke-and-pave other than the standard barrage of windowsupdates...
>> I have these same codecs installed on the XP Pro box, so I'm even more
>> bewildered as to why I have no video, and why the extenders both >> refuse
>> to function.
>>
>> Any ideas on how to troubleshoot and/or fix the problem would be
>> GREATLY appreciated.
>>
>> I would REALLY rather spend my weekend doing something other than
>> ANOTHER nuke and pave of my MCE box to get the extenders functional
>> again. :(
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>>


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