Well my plunge into the Media Center has been a pain as of now ! Everytime I launch the media center it says " Your video card or drivers are not compatible with Media Center." then "ok".

But here is my other problem when I got to play a video or watch tv (I have my Tuner installed and my Graphics card is an ATI Radeon 9250" the Media Center will say " VIDEO ERROR Files needed to display video are not installed or not working correctly. Please restart Media Center and/or restart the computer." I figured it could be the MPEG-2 Decoder so I went to microsoft and downloaded the WinXP Video Decoder Checkup Utility I have 7 Decoders on my computer and four of them are incompadible now I have Nvidia Video Decoder installed version 4.0.58.0 and has check marks in all the areas. So what is wrong !?

I'm leaning towards pebkac, but it would help if you could list your hardware specs, software, tuner, etc etc

I'm going to assume you're running MCE 2k5 since this is the MCE forum, and not vista, but maybe just confirm that

I knew that 9250 would be trouble! I dont think its going to cut it. Besides that version of the nvidia decoder is very old, download the newest one from the nvidia website.

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Here are my Specs

2.93 GHz P4

1 GB DDR2 RAM

160 GB SATA HD (Internal)

120 GB SATA HD (Ext)

ATI Radeon 9250

Hauppauge WinTV-PVR 150MCE

and Windows XP MCE 2005

Well if the 9250 isn't going to cut it is there a list from microsoft of approved cards ?

you really need a good directx 9 card for smooth operation

you can get ok performance out of something like a geforce 5200, but really, I wouldn't bother with anything under a 6200

6600 gt is a great MCE card, and the 7600 as well is also great

now if you're looking to do some HD, then you probably need to look at some more ram, at least a 7600

Thanks Tikker before you said about the Nvidia and the 6200 I was looking @ it and I think I will go with it. I'm not going for HD as in TV or games the highest detailed game I use is The Sims 2, and 1 GB is enough for me at this point.

if you can find a 6600gt for cheap, i'd spend the little bit extra and use that

the 6600 is just soooo much better than the 6200, and you'll appreciate it more if you end up doing a bit of gaming too

Tikker,

This is my first post, I'm very new to this, but here goes.....

Like Seth_381, I too am experiencing this "video Error" in my MCE 2005.

I can't play live tv, mce gives above error, and throws a dialogue box up, something about exception at ehshell??

Everything was working fine up until two days ago. I came into work and connecteted to home through logmein, went into tv/guide setup, and the problems seemed to have started from there.

I thought it may of had something to do with logmein, so I uninstalled. no joy there!

Simutaneously, update is unsucessfully trying to install office sp3, not sure if this has any bearing?

I'm wondering if you can help?

My Specs below:

Asrock ALiveNF7G-FullHD NVIDIA GeForce, Dual Core AMD 4800, Galaxy nVidia Geforce 8600GT 1GB PCI Express Graphics Card, 4 Gig Corsair Mem, Western Digital Caviar GP WD10EACS 1000GB, Leadtek Winfast DTV2000H PCI Digital & Analogue, Pioneer BDC-S02 Blu Ray Player

 

Don't bump old threads if it's not related. His problem was a very old video card.
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