dskater411
New Member
Hey guys,
New to the forum but just installed vista 64 the other night so im sure i'll be here a lot!
Now i've been looking a lot into how to play AVI files through the media center, and it seems everyone uses the FFDShow program.
So, after installing vista64, drivers, and all updates (except SP1), and configuring the media center
I then installed:
-Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable Package x64 SP1
-FFDShow
-MediaControl 5.4.4x64
In that order. Well after doing this my AVI files still wouln't play in media center, they wouldnt even open, i just got a message saying it could not open the file. When I open the file in media player 11, only the audio plays, not video.
So then I tried opening the FFDShow configuration menu and enabling some more codecs that were disabled upon installation. Still nothing.
So I go to restart my pc, BLUE SCREEN of death. Computer takes a super long time to boot up again, and the next time I shut down, another blue screen. So not only did it not work for me, it corrupted my machine and I guess i will do another fresh windows install.
Anyone know what I can do? Are there specific settings I need to make with FFDShow and the media center plugin or should they pretty much work right from the install? Im not highly educated in codecs but reading as much as i can going along. Thanks for the help
-ps: the avi file is known to work fine, i viewed the same file in windows xp with VLC media player without any problems.
New to the forum but just installed vista 64 the other night so im sure i'll be here a lot!
Now i've been looking a lot into how to play AVI files through the media center, and it seems everyone uses the FFDShow program.
So, after installing vista64, drivers, and all updates (except SP1), and configuring the media center
I then installed:
-Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable Package x64 SP1
-FFDShow
-MediaControl 5.4.4x64
In that order. Well after doing this my AVI files still wouln't play in media center, they wouldnt even open, i just got a message saying it could not open the file. When I open the file in media player 11, only the audio plays, not video.
So then I tried opening the FFDShow configuration menu and enabling some more codecs that were disabled upon installation. Still nothing.
So I go to restart my pc, BLUE SCREEN of death. Computer takes a super long time to boot up again, and the next time I shut down, another blue screen. So not only did it not work for me, it corrupted my machine and I guess i will do another fresh windows install.
Anyone know what I can do? Are there specific settings I need to make with FFDShow and the media center plugin or should they pretty much work right from the install? Im not highly educated in codecs but reading as much as i can going along. Thanks for the help
-ps: the avi file is known to work fine, i viewed the same file in windows xp with VLC media player without any problems.