Upgrading winDVD decoder to work in Vista Beta 2

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crosswalker21 - 14 Aug 2006 19:38 GMT

I recently installed Vista Beta 2 on my laptop. Originally, it was xp and
came with the intervideo WinDVD DVD player/decoder. I tried pulling the
decoder driver off of my windows xp restore CD's but it won't work in Vista.
Is there any way I can make my driver work in Vista without having to buy a
new one.

PS: I've used VLC media player and it will play DVDs but the playback is
very choppy and inconsistent.

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JW - 14 Aug 2006 20:00 GMT

MS does provide a free DVD Decoder as part of Vista so you no longer need to
provide one yourself. It appears to work quite well with Media Center TV,
and DVDs with both Media Center and Media Player.

>I recently installed Vista Beta 2 on my laptop. Originally, it was xp and
> came with the intervideo WinDVD DVD player/decoder. I tried pulling the
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> PS: I've used VLC media player and it will play DVDs but the playback is
> very choppy and inconsistent.

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crosswalker21 - 14 Aug 2006 23:52 GMT

Maybe it's not the decoder that I need then. I get an error message telling
me that the DVD can't play because of copyright restrictions. I can play
DVDs with VLC media player and intervideo winDVD(this I was able to copy off
my winxp restore cd). But not in Windows Media Player 11. Any Ideas?

> MS does provide a free DVD Decoder as part of Vista so you no longer need to
> provide one yourself. It appears to work quite well with Media Center TV,
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> > PS: I've used VLC media player and it will play DVDs but the playback is
> > very choppy and inconsistent.

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JW - 15 Aug 2006 01:50 GMT

I have read about all sorts of Media Player 11 problems on Vista suggest you
go back to Media Player 10.

> Maybe it's not the decoder that I need then. I get an error message
> telling
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>> > very choppy and inconsistent.

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Mark D. VandenBerg - 15 Aug 2006 01:59 GMT

Well, that'll be a trick, since WMP 11 is part of Vista Beta, and I don't
think there's anyway to uninstall it or roll back to a version that was
never there to begin with. Perhaps, when Vista becomes a retail product,
there will be a chance to test the theory by obtaining a European copy with
no media player installed and then install WMP 10 into it.

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>I have read about all sorts of Media Player 11 problems on Vista suggest
>you go back to Media Player 10.

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JW - 15 Aug 2006 03:18 GMT

You are absolutly correct and I was wrong. Since I had had trouble with
MP11 on my XP system and had not had any trouble with MP on my Vista Beta 2
sysem I had incorrectly assumed that Vista came with XP10.
I apologize.

> Well, that'll be a trick, since WMP 11 is part of Vista Beta, and I don't
> think there's anyway to uninstall it or roll back to a version that was
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>>I have read about all sorts of Media Player 11 problems on Vista suggest
>>you go back to Media Player 10.

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Mark D. VandenBerg - 15 Aug 2006 02:03 GMT

Have you updated Intervideo and/or made sure it is a "Vista-compatible"
application? Could your issues be video card/controller/driver related?
Have you tried running Intervideo in "Windows XP Compatibility" mode?

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crosswalker21 - 15 Aug 2006 14:07 GMT

I've looked for a way to "update" the Intervideo driver but can't find
anything. I really don't want to have to purchase another driver if that's
what you meant by updating it. I took the driver restore CD that came with
my computer and pulled the InterVideo WinDVD software off of it and that will
play DVDs in Vista alright (the video/audio is a bit jumpy if anything else
is running at the time). When I had XP running on this system, it came with
the plugin for WMP 9/10 to allow Commercial DVD playback. That's what I'm
trying to figure out how to get. I may just have to go back to XP :-(.

> Have you updated Intervideo and/or made sure it is a "Vista-compatible"
> application? Could your issues be video card/controller/driver related?
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> > PS: I've used VLC media player and it will play DVDs but the playback is
> > very choppy and inconsistent.

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ZAZ - 18 Aug 2006 05:44 GMT

Had same issue...no 3rd party decoder worked and the included one didn't
work. "Didn't work" meant skippy DVD playback, both video and audio.
installed a trial version of winDVD 7, and it worked. however, expired in a
few days. to add on to that, couldn't get printer driver working, so
uninstalled vista and am back to xp. now, i can actually have a half decent
computing experience...

> I recently installed Vista Beta 2 on my laptop. Originally, it was xp and
> came with the intervideo WinDVD DVD player/decoder. I tried pulling the
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> PS: I've used VLC media player and it will play DVDs but the playback is
> very choppy and inconsistent.

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