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Posted by Doug Knox MS-MVP on January 7, 2006, 9:53 am
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So, what did you change 10 days ago? Is this when you installed Update =
Rollup 2?
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Doug Knox, MS-MVP Windows Media Center\Windows Powered Smart =
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Win 95/98/Me/XP Tweaks and Fixes
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>I have a library of MPEG2 files generated by recording TV shows using=20
> Showshifter(sorry!) with a Hauppauge WINTV card on another (networked) =
> Windows XP machine. Up until 10 days ago, I could watch the recordings =
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> across the network on my MCE machine using MCE2005 and the "My Videos" =
> function. They all fail now.=20
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> However, they all continue to work fine on the MCE machine in WMP10, =
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> Intervideo WINDVD 7 and in RealPlayer. The network is not at fault. I =
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> the same problems below if I copy the files onto the MCE machine.
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> When I try to play any of them inside MCE from the My Videos menu, the =
> following sequence of events happens.
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> 1. About 10 seconds after pressing "play", presumably after the codecs =
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> attempted to open the file, an onscreen dialogue appears for about 5 =
seconds,=20
> . It is the same dialogue that you would normally expect to see at the =
end of=20
> a video. It proclaims "Finshed" and offers "Restart, Delete and Done" =
as 3=20
> options.=20
> 2. Without user intervention, the screen then goes black for a further =
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> seconds (CODEC retry?) and then goes back to the "Finished" dialogue. =
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> happens 3 times. Then...
> 3. In a blue screen, the message "Cannot Play Video. Media Center=20
> encountered an unknown error" appears.
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> There is no further diagnostic info in any of the logs maintained in =
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> Event Viewer.
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> From this newsgroup and others (including Green Button) I see I am not =
> alone, but no-one yet seems to have found a cure.
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> Any help/advice much appreciated!
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> Nigel
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> MCE2005 Rollup 2, Intervideo WinDVD7 Platinum, Dual Hauppauge HVR1100, =
> Geforce 6600GT, Asus A8V Deluxe, AMD X2 4400, 1Gb Geil PC3200
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