Vista - Media Center video decoder malfunctioning

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I understand this is due to the codec being out of date and I can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.

--
Walter.

With RC2, you only have to set the date back to Jan 3, 2007.
That doesn't help much though with the problems the wrong date creates.

"Walter Docherty" <walter@noemail.invalid> wrote in message
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> 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 I understand this is due to the codec being out of date and I can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.
>
> --
> Walter.

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 I understand this is due to the codec being out of date and I can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.