Xp Mce Codec problems

[dazzer123]

I am trying to get my Mce setup running correctly and am having a few problem's mainly in Media Center when tryig to view Tv or Playback Dvd i get sound and no picture.

I have downloaded Microsofts Decchek utility and i have Nvidia,Cyberlink and Intervideo codecs installed and are all Mce compatible and have tried setting all of them as the prefered codec for Media Center but i still can not get a picture would anybody have any idea what could be causing this.

AMD XP 3200+
ASUS ATI 9550
512MB DDR 400
200 Gig Maxtor
Pioneer 109
Windows Xp Mce

[hutters]

I had a similar problem - no dvd playback, but because I had no codecs installed - so I closed down media centre to get the normal XP desktop and played a dvd through mediaplayer. Because no codecs were installed it pointed me to M$ website where I downloaded and installed the nvidia codecs.

It may be worth trying to play a dvd through mediaplayer in this way because if it works then you know mediaplayer is ok and that it's something in MCE that's causing the problems.

[lisag]

MCE2005 is really fussy about codecs, I had loads of problems in this area, and the only way I got it working properly was to do a clean install and keep codec installations and all installations as minimal as possible, I think 'vanilla' is the term.

I currently (fingers crossed) have MCE2005 running flawlessly and playing back all video files in very high quality using this combination of codecs...

Cyberlink PowerDVD 6
AC3 filter
Xvid only codec

And No OTHER CODECS!
Cyberlink has Divx codecs included

hope this helps
lisa

[dazzer123]

Cheers after banging my head repeatedly off the wall I decided to update my graphics card drivers and guess what problem solved I presumed that as the Operating system accepted the original drivers that they would be Mce compatible how wrong I was.

[Derek22]

dazzer

any chance you could post a link to that decchek utility, or is it part of the os. I found the latest carylst drivers solved my problem but before I found that solution I tried both power dvd software and intervideo software and would like to see which one mce is using before doing a fresh install.

ta

[dazzer123]

Hi Derek22 here is the link http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=de1491ac-0ab6-4990-943d-627e6ade9fcb&displaylang=en&Hash=6YVMFS6 hope this is of some help cheers.

[Derek22]

thanks for that usefull tool.