"Vijay2U" <Vijay2U@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I have many MPEG files downloaded from my DVR that I cannot play on my new
> Vista PC with Media Player 11. I can play the same files on WMP11 on an
> XP
> machine I also have. Does anyone know where I can find the right MPEG
> codecs
> for WMP11 that are Vista compatible? I saw somewhere that I should avoid
> coded packs as they cause system crashes.
Most DVD players like PowerDVD install the DVD/MPEG2 codec to your system.
If you can't playback DVDs then consider finding a decent Windows DVD
player. You can also try running it through VideoLAN,
http://www.videolan.org VLC runs it's own open source codecs independant
from Windows. Might work for you.