MCE codec error

Supercow · 18 Mar 2007 at 10:10

I was helping a friend build his HTPC yesterday, and he has Vista Ultimate edition.
He wanted to give MCE a go, before he goes down the Media-Portal route.
We could not for the life of us, get it to play any movies he had on his system though! The message "could not play content, no codecs were found...."
Now the strange thing is, he has all the codecs needed, and when he tries to open the files with just Windows Media Player, it plays just fine.
Any suggestions?

Supercow · 18 Mar 2007 at 11:06

Supercow · 18 Mar 2007 at 14:04

bledd. said:
http://www.sharksfiles.com/

use the Betanews MajorGeeks SoftPedia links, then install the 64bit components after (its near the top of the page)

although the page doesn't look the business, this codec/filter pack is

cheers big ears

Supercow · 18 Mar 2007 at 15:54

hmm after i had a look at those, it didnt quite make sense.
My mate has the drivers to play the files just fine and dandy, it's only media centre that doesnt want to play it

Supercow · 18 Mar 2007 at 18:30

bledd. said:
did he run both of the exe's ? perhaps a reboot is needed

Both exe's?
Both are "vista codec packs" ... ?

Supercow · 18 Mar 2007 at 19:02

Thats did the job!
Thanks a bunch mate