Further, when I insert these DVDs into my new HTPC, the DVD Drive goes full bore for about 10 seconds and then ‘disappears’ from windows explorer. The exact same drive in an XP machine plays the disks just fine. So, I used DVD Shrink and DVD Decrypter to make copies (To be clear, I own the originals)… Finally to the point… the backup copies do not play in media center, but the originals do. These are hard, if not impossible to replace given Disney’s ‘vault’ policy – only issuing DVDs every 10,000 years. They also love to play Frisbee with the disks. The Problem… I have two kids who love Disney movies.
#VISTA MPEG 2 DECODER DRIVERS#
My apologies if this as already been asked a thousand times… Basics of the machine Gigabyte motherboard Core 2 Duo 2 GB NEC DVD Burner Auzentech XPlosion GE Force 7600 HDMI MPD-130 Zalman-160 Case All drivers are the latest from the manufactures website. I have one issue that my late night Internet searches have not helped address. I just finished – sort of – building my first HTPC. My question is, if Cyberlink PowerDVD enables the purevideo hardware acceleration, is this because the support for purevideo hardware acceleration is built into the cyberlink mpeg2 decoder? So could i get Vista Media Center to use cyberlink mpeg2 decoder and then it would run the purevideo hardware acceleration? Is this a workaround to using Purevideo hardware acceleration? So basically Purevideo Hardware Acceleration cant happen in Vista Media Center. This sucks because nvidia says they wont release a vista version "because many companies like cyberlink, intervideo are incorporating purevideo hardware acceleration in their products" I have PowerDVD 7 Ultra and in the settings it says purevideo hardware acceleration is enabled. It will only run the purevideo software decoder. I have tried this and as everyone has said and found out it will not give hardware acceleration support. Now the purevideo decoder from there website, the Win XP version, will work on vista. People have emailed nvidia and they said they have no intentions to release a vista decoder for sale from them. Purevideo decoder pack that you can buy from nvidia will not have a vista version. I have done a lot of research on the subject and think i figured it out. now this is a question for anyone who can answer this. I was able to get your program to notice the purevideo decoder but media center would give a decoder error when running it. I did your suggestions and a few of the anonymous ones listed above about the 64bit registry. Gary, thank you so much for taking the time to figure out a 64bit solution.