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Oceanwatcher - 15 Sep 2006 21:51 GMT

I downloaded Vista today and wanted to try out some of the online content.
Also, I wanted to see the few clips that comes with Vista and check how DVD's
are playing.

When I try to access any online content or play the recorded clips, I get a
"Video Error" - Files needed to display video are not installed or working
correctly. Please restart Windows Media Center or restart the computer.

Also, I can not find any place in Media Center to play DVD....

I know I need to buy a codec to have MPEG2 playback, but the online content
should be WindowsMediaVideo and have no problems playing!

What is wrong here?

And yes - the PC has been restarted countless times.

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santosh hegde - 15 Sep 2006 22:11 GMT

do you have windows ultimate/ home premium cause you should be able to play
dvds in those skus.Please let us know.thanks

> I downloaded Vista today and wanted to try out some of the online content.
> Also, I wanted to see the few clips that comes with Vista and check how DVD's
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> And yes - the PC has been restarted countless times.

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Oceanwatcher - 18 Sep 2006 09:31 GMT

I did not even realise that you could download different versions of RC1?
Mine is has "Ultimate" attached to its name :-)

I have a feeling it is lacking the right driver for the graphics card. It is
an on-board card with SiS chipset.

Do you know where I can find drivers for Vista or do you know a grphics card
(AGP) that definitely is supported?

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Oceanwatcher

> do you have windows ultimate/ home premium cause you should be able to play
> dvds in those skus.Please let us know.thanks
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JW - 18 Sep 2006 15:02 GMT

Check teh SIS Website to see if your specific chipset is supported my MCE
since only the most recently releassed of their chipsets meet requirements
susch as Dx9 support.

>I did not even realise that you could download different versions of RC1?
> Mine is has "Ultimate" attached to its name :-)
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JW - 15 Sep 2006 23:05 GMT

Vista has a built in MPEG2 Decoder for DVDs.
What graphics card and driver are you using and how much memory on the
graphics card?

>I downloaded Vista today and wanted to try out some of the online content.
> Also, I wanted to see the few clips that comes with Vista and check how
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> And yes - the PC has been restarted countless times.

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Oceanwatcher - 28 Sep 2006 17:24 GMT

JW,

I have been doing other things lately and had no time to check the answer
from you. But during that period of time, I got another graphics card based
on nVidia chips.

This solved the problems and the errormessages regarding this part are gone.
So I guess you were right in your assumptions that the graphics card was the
problem.

To anyone else reading this thread: Go with a nVidia based graphics card for
now. It will most likely be supported. Problem solved!

Thank you very much for all help and suggestions.

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Regards,

Oceanwatcher

> Vista has a built in MPEG2 Decoder for DVDs.
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