I can't seem to play any video at all in the
Media Center in Vista Ultimate on one of my machines. E.g., when trying
to play a dvr-ms file such as the default installed movie snippets, I
get the error message:
"VIDEO ERROR - Files
needed to display video are not installed or not working correctly.
Please restart media center and/or restart the computer".
After much web searching, it seems this error is
very generic, referring to anything from too little video memory, or
too high a video resolution, to missing codecs, etc. etc.
Since I’m using a
default install of Ultimate, codecs should not be a problem I assume…
(The codec reporting tool that’s out on the ‘net reports
reasonable-sounding codecs are selected anyway.)
Is it possible to drill into what this Video
Error is more specifically having a problem with?
Eventvwr is not
showing anything for example. I am not sure where else to look, can't find any appropriate log files, and I
don’t want to keep trying random things without having a better
understanding of the specific error.
BTW, WMV files and DVD play ok in WMP 11 – though I do have to reduce the display resolution for DVDs.
Thanks for any assistance!