DVD Playback in Windows Media Centre

[Sheepdisease]

Hello,

I am using Windows Vista Home Premium and I was wondering if you guys could please help me out.

Whenever I watch a film, it seems as though I am able to watch about half of it before the problem occurs, but then it appears and will not go away until Windows Media Centre is closed and opened again.

The problem that appears is a mass of patchy green squares that seem to flicker.

Any ideas? I certainly hope so, I have had enough of this!

[jwo62]

please read the forum rules!

post bumping is not allowed!

This is your second offence.


if you have patience,someone will answer your question.

you have to remember,forum members are in all different time zones.

[Sheepdisease]

Right, would have been nice to have had a friendly notice prior to being warned.

Sometimes you just get the feeling that you are being ignored and then your thread gets moved to the back of the queue, possibly never to be responded to.

[jwo62]

The freindly notice is the forum rules.

when you violated rule14,it became apparent that you either didnt read the rules,or you missed that one. so a warning (a freindly warning) was issued,no points.

when you bumped your post a second time (only a short time later), an infraction was issued.
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[Sheepdisease]

I feel a bit of thread hijacking going on, but at least it is generating some exposure.

[PurpleDemon]

Hi Sheepdisease,

Welcome to the Forum.

I don't have media center, but from what I have read if you have another video player installed it could be conflicting with your Windows Media Center.

Source:

http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/Help/0d93980a-4c6a-4c97-8be7-90572cf0d79c1033.mspx

There are many other members that check in at different times and each have expertise on many different issues.

Try this out and if no success I am sure someone will know more than I will come along.

If it works please post back so we all can learn.

Thank You and Good Luck

[Sheepdisease]

Thank you for your response burrell, a much warmer approach!

I have checked and I have no other DVD player software installed.

[PurpleDemon]

It was worth a try. I have not read of many people using the media center here.

There are a few Vista experts that pop in frequently that would know more than I.

Seems like the preferred player is Media Player Classic. That is what I use as well.

I am curious, when you say "film", What format are you referring to? DVD, AVI, FLV?

[Sheepdisease]

I am referring to DVD.

[atifsh]

ok first of all tell me what dvd software / codec uv installed, as far as i know only vista ultimate have dvd codec builtin, not sure for home premium.

second what other software codec u have installed, even nero comes with its own.

u can always try installing nvidia purevideo in trial mode and see if that solves ur problem.

[atifsh]

Whenever I watch a film, it seems as though I am able to watch about half of it before the problem occurs, but then it appears and will not go away until Windows Media Centre is closed and opened again.

have u applied all the patches microsoft released for mce issues, using windows update?

[Sheepdisease]

have u applied all the patches microsoft released for mce issues, using windows update?

Erm, I have downloaded all the latest patches and updates from Windows Update that show up for me.

[atifsh]

then just install nvidia purevideo decoder trial from nvidia.com

[Sheepdisease]

Thank you for your advice, downloading now.

[Sheepdisease]

Nope, just tried watching a DVD and the same thing happened (even with the Nvidia decoder installed).