It cetainly appears normal that your WMA9Pro program installed its own
decoder when you installed itand therefore will play the clips when you run
it.
However, it appears that when it runs it sets its decoder as the one to use
also for decoding of video from MC TV or DVD. So when you try and play a
MPEG2 encoded TV or a DVD you get the WMA9Pro decoder which of couse can't
decode the Mpeg2 data.
You can use the following 3rd party Vista decoder utility to see what
decoder MC is set to use and you can change it if you like.
http://mediacenterexpert.blogspot.co...r-utility.html
"politby" <politby@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:8DEA5082-B7F6-454E-BB21-F076BA480009@microsoft.com...
> Well, there has to be a WMV decoder in Vista because those clips play
> perfectly, including WMA9Pro audio and all.
>
> And why would playing one of these clips affect DVD (MPEG-2) playback?
>
> /POL
>
> "Curious" wrote:
>
>> Vista includes a default MPEG2 decoder(which AFAIK does not also include
>> a
>> WMV decoder) which it uses with MC for TV and DVDs.
>> And it appears that as long as you don't try and play WMV format clips
>> with
>> MC you are OK.
>>
>> "politby" <politby@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:85F767F1-3A33-4CFF-962D-00C369B96724@microsoft.com...
>> > Greetings,
>> >
>> > I have just installed the Vista Ultimate RTM release from MSDN. This is
>> > on
>> > a
>> > Core 2 Duo equipped mATX motherboard with an Asus nVidia 6200 TC video
>> > card.
>> > Everything works fine except for some problems with DVD playback:
>> > When first starting Media Center and going directly to DVD playback,
>> > the
>> > DVD
>> > loads quickly and plays without any problems. But if I have first
>> > played
>> > other video content (WMV HD clips from Microsoft - which is all I have
>> > on
>> > this system right now) then when trying to play a DVD I first get -
>> > after
>> > a
>> > period of intense hard disk activity - a couple of jerky fragments of
>> > the
>> > movie and then playback stops with the message "Files to display video
>> > are
>> > not installed or not working properly. [snip] restart Media Center".
>> >
>> > After restarting Media Center following this error message, DVD
>> > playback
>> > works again although the DVD loads very slowly and there is lots of
>> > hard
>> > disk
>> > activity before play begins. Again, if I play another video clip before
>> > attempting DVD playback, the error message appears again.
>> >
>> > Once, I even got a BSOD after attempting to play a DVD. Also, a couple
>> > of
>> > times I've gotten the "the display driver failed but has recovered"
>> > error.
>> >
>> > I suspect this may be a display driver or decoder problem, but I have
>> > not
>> > installed anything at all into this system - it's all fresh after a new
>> > install. Windows Update has updated the nVidia display driver, that's
>> > all.
>> >
>> > This system is a dual boot with XP MCE, and there are no problems at
>> > all
>> > when running XP.
>> >
>> > Are there any known problems with this video card, or with nVidia
>> > display
>> > drivers in general and Vista MCE?
>> >
>> > This is the only thing stopping me right now from taking XP off this
>> > system
>> > and running Vista so I'd like to see a solution to this.
>> >
>> > thanks,
>> > P O Litby
>>
>>
>>