Video Error- "Video decoder is either corrupt or not installed"

I have a Gateway and recently reformatted my hard drive and after
"successfully" setting up my television connection on Media Center, it will
not display television. My cable is plugged in so I'm not sure what to do.

Please help!
Thanks.

Jaime
Thu Jun 26 11:04:55 PDT 2008

Did you reinstall MCE manually or us a Gateway recovery disc of some sort?

If manually setup, did you reinstall a DVD decoder? If you used some type of
recovery disc, it should have done this as part of the reinstall, but it's
possible that you have to manually install also. (Ignore if you are using
Vista w/ Media Center, the decoder is included in the OS)

Also, check your tuner and video card driver (make sure they are MCE
drivers, not just standard Windows), occasionally problem there can result
in this error message.
--
James
Orlando (Goofy says "Hey"), Florida

"needing help" <needing help@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:5E04EBA4-FFD0-494B-BF40-F1175DE2E622@microsoft.com...
> I have a Gateway and recently reformatted my hard drive and after
> "successfully" setting up my television connection on Media Center, it
> will
> not display television. My cable is plugged in so I'm not sure what to do.
>
> Please help!
> Thanks.

autopaint
Thu Jun 26 11:06:01 PDT 2008

If itâ??s a Gateway Iâ??m guessing you have MCE 2005, did you install the DVD
decoder?
--
Richard A Miller MCE mvp
http://www.microsoft.com/mvp




"needing help" wrote:

> I have a Gateway and recently reformatted my hard drive and after
> "successfully" setting up my television connection on Media Center, it will
> not display television. My cable is plugged in so I'm not sure what to do.
>
> Please help!
> Thanks.

Jonathan
Fri Jul 04 21:13:01 PDT 2008

I recently saw this problem. I did everything I could think of. Updated the
drivers, installed a stock dvd viewing program (powerDVD 5), reinstalled my
OS 3x. I could watch the DVDs through powerDVD and through media player, just
not media center. Nothing would view in the "TV Live" or "Play DVD" portions.

I downloaded the verifying program to check the compatibility of the decoder
with media center. It showed no conflict. I went to powerDVD's site
(cyberlink) and downloaded a trial of the new version (version 8). I
installed it and media center now works perfectly fine. I uninstalled the
trial version, retained the decoder and thus continue to use MCE.

"needing help" wrote:

> I have a Gateway and recently reformatted my hard drive and after
> "successfully" setting up my television connection on Media Center, it will
> not display television. My cable is plugged in so I'm not sure what to do.
>
> Please help!
> Thanks.

Christine
Fri Aug 22 15:18:00 PDT 2008

I had the same video decoder error. I downloaded a trial version of powerdvd
and then my media center worked fine. I uninstalled the trial version and
then it didn't work. How do I "retain" my decoder like you did?

Thank you.

"Jonathan Yocum" wrote:

> I recently saw this problem. I did everything I could think of. Updated the
> drivers, installed a stock dvd viewing program (powerDVD 5), reinstalled my
> OS 3x. I could watch the DVDs through powerDVD and through media player, just
> not media center. Nothing would view in the "TV Live" or "Play DVD" portions.
>
> I downloaded the verifying program to check the compatibility of the decoder
> with media center. It showed no conflict. I went to powerDVD's site
> (cyberlink) and downloaded a trial of the new version (version 8). I
> installed it and media center now works perfectly fine. I uninstalled the
> trial version, retained the decoder and thus continue to use MCE.
>
> "needing help" wrote:
>
> > I have a Gateway and recently reformatted my hard drive and after
> > "successfully" setting up my television connection on Media Center, it will
> > not display television. My cable is plugged in so I'm not sure what to do.
> >
> > Please help!
> > Thanks.

Jaime
Fri Aug 22 20:22:53 PDT 2008

Simple, you need to buy a decoder, either the PowerDVD or nVidia or whatever
(the nVidia one is $20). The trials will only work for a limited period of
time.
--
James
Orlando (Goofy says "Hey!"), FL

"Christine" <Christine@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:787F3124-98EA-4AB8-8594-DA0B6A77F25D@microsoft.com...
> I had the same video decoder error. I downloaded a trial version of
> powerdvd
> and then my media center worked fine. I uninstalled the trial version and
> then it didn't work. How do I "retain" my decoder like you did?
>
> Thank you.
>
> "Jonathan Yocum" wrote:
>
>> I recently saw this problem. I did everything I could think of. Updated
>> the
>> drivers, installed a stock dvd viewing program (powerDVD 5), reinstalled
>> my
>> OS 3x. I could watch the DVDs through powerDVD and through media player,
>> just
>> not media center. Nothing would view in the "TV Live" or "Play DVD"
>> portions.
>>
>> I downloaded the verifying program to check the compatibility of the
>> decoder
>> with media center. It showed no conflict. I went to powerDVD's site
>> (cyberlink) and downloaded a trial of the new version (version 8). I
>> installed it and media center now works perfectly fine. I uninstalled the
>> trial version, retained the decoder and thus continue to use MCE.
>>
>> "needing help" wrote:
>>
>> > I have a Gateway and recently reformatted my hard drive and after
>> > "successfully" setting up my television connection on Media Center, it
>> > will
>> > not display television. My cable is plugged in so I'm not sure what to
>> > do.
>> >
>> > Please help!
>> > Thanks.