Re: Video Error

I just replaced the video card with a Radeon 9550 card. I can run Aero now,
which is pretty cool. When I try using the media center to watch tv with my
Hauppauge Win TV-PVR150, I get a different error now:

Decoder Error
The video decoder has either malfunctioned or is not installed. Please
restart
Windows Media Center or the computer.

Any ideas?

"Doug Knox - [MS-MVP]" wrote:

DX 8 is not good enough for use under MCE 2005 or Vista. It must be DX9
support, as well as the other items mentioned in the link. The software
that comes with the 150 is just a different type of media player. MCE
depends heavily for DirectX 9 for its rendering of the MCE interface, on
screen menus, overlays and the like.

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"Crazed Weasel" <CrazedWeasel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I think the video card/driver I have are DX8, but that was enough in XP
Home
for me to view live tv from the WinTV PVR 150. I was using the TV
program
that came with the card, however.

"Doug Knox - [MS-MVP]" wrote:

There are specific requirements for video cards to be supported in Media
Center (DX9 and other support that your ATI card probably doesn't
support.
Video card requirements for MCE can be found here

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/mediacenter/partners/dfw/videocardsreq.mspx

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"Crazed Weasel" <CrazedWeasel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Doug,

I verified that the Hauppauge card is listed under the Sound Video and
Game
Controllers, and it has driver version 2.0.43.24108 installed. That's
the
latest version posted on the Hauppauge web site.

I was able to install the XP drivers for my Radeon 7000. On the plus
side,
my performance index for graphics went up from 1.0 to 1.9. Plus I can
run
native resolution on my LCD monitor again.

However I still get the same video error message on trying Media
Center.
Does that make sense? I'll try again when I get the Radeon 9600, but I
hope
I'm not wasting time for an installation issue - i.e. there is some
component
of Vista that needs to be installed still.

Ray

"Doug Knox - [MS-MVP]" wrote:

Under Vista, the Hauppauge 150's show up under Sound, Video and Game
Controllers in Device Manager.

You need to ensure you have two things installed.

1) The appropriate MCE compatible tuner drivers for Vista. There are
drivers for the Hauppauge cards on Windows Update, they are listed as
Optional updates. Or you can use the drivers found here:

ftp://ftp.shspvr.com/download/wintv-pvr_150-500/inf/pvr_2.0.48.24258_vista_whql.zip

More info here:

http://jtsang.blogspot.com/2006/10/new-hauppauge-pvr-150500-drivers-for.html

2) Visit ATI's web site and download the latest Vista beta drivers
for
your
video card.

https://support.ati.com/ics/support/KBList.asp?folderID=5713

These driver are listed as compatible with Vista RTM. They may not
work,
or
work well with RC1.
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"Crazed Weasel" <Crazed Weasel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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Hi!

I have installed Vista on my old Sony Vaio PDV-RX560, dual boot
(Vista
on
its own hard drive). I have a WinTV PVR 150 TV card from Hauppauge,
and
the
video card is a ATI Radeon 7000 series (32MB).

All is working well, except I can't watch TV. though I can from XP.
Under
Vista's media center I get "VIDEO ERROR Files needed to display
video
are
not installed or not working correctly" error.

Two things I see that may be an issue are that the video card is
using
the
standard vga driver, and I can't see the tv card in the device
manager,
even
after installing the latest drivers for Vista from the Hauppauge
site.

Any suggestions?



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