Vijay2U

Interesting! I have Vista Basic.
I can play DVDs from WMP11 on my XP machine fine.
When I insert a DVD on the new Vista machine WMP11 opens PowerDVD.

"Adam Albright" wrote:

> On Thu, 26 Jul 2007 06:42:03 -0700, Vijay2U
> <Vijay2U@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
> >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.
>
> Yes... avoid CODEC packs like the plague. A better approach is install
> codecs individually from a codec pack. This method usually gives good
> results. A good rule of thumb for codecs is like BIOS flashing. DON'T
> unless you have a particular need/problem you're trying to address.
>
> If or not Media Player will play DVDs for you in Vista in part depends
> on what if any MPEG-2 decoder (codec) you have installed. By default
> only the Home Premium and Ultimate versions of Vista include a MPEG-2
> encoder. If you don't have either of these, you'll need to install
> some third party applications that does include a MPEG-2 codec.
>
> Even doing that Media Player is such a poorly written pile of crap it
> still may not function correctly.
>
> Suggestion, download a copy of GOM player and see if it plays DVDs for
> you. This feature rich player is capable of playing both MPEG-2 files
> and VOB files (used to burn DVDs) Another free player is XnView.
>
>