will

On Tue, 09 Jan 2007 05:43:54 +0000, Walter Docherty wrote:

> Running Vista RC2 build 5744. Suddenly Media Center stopped playing
> Live and Recorded TV with the error message "The video decoder has
> either malfunctioned or is not installed....".
>
> I understand this is due to the codec being out of date and I can
> successfully run TV by setting the system clock back to before October
> 31 2006.
>
> Although this works OK it is obviously not a good solution, as an
> incorrect system date upsets other programs as well as the Media Center
> TV Guide listings.
>
> Is there any "correct" solution to this problem, besides waiting for the
> release version of Vista?
>
> TIA.

Install a third party decoder Nvidia pure video worked for me, it's all
back up and running here.