media playback

I have 3 HP Media Center computers that are all networked. One XP desktop, one Win 7 Home Premium laptop that was upgraded from Vista, and one brand new laptop with Win 7 factory installed. I use them often to record TV shows and want to be able to use each computer to watch shows recorded on...

I just installed windows 7. All of my recorded movies and shows play just fine but three. When I try to play these three I get a message that says they are copy protected and can only be played on the PC where they were recorded. Thing is, they are on the PC where they were recorded and of...

ok so here it is, i grabbed a copy of windows 7 and decided to check it out, but after i upgraded i found out all my videos will no longer stream to my 360. so heres how it happened: i had Xp and everything was great, i was streaming my avi's and mp4's to my 360 without a gliche, i used...

I have 5 hdd drives,( g, e, f, h, i, k) each with a movies and tv shows folder in each, i have made a TV shows library and a movies library that includes folders from 5 drives respectively. when broswing to my Windows 7 machine via the network, i see.. Movies1 Movies2 Movies3 Movies4 Movies5...

Hi I have A Dell XPS 420 with a Sigmatel Stac92XX C-Major HD Audio Driver and I was running Windows Vista X64 SP1 and everything was working fine. I just recently installed Windows 7 RT Build 7100 and the Generic High Definition Audio Device Driver Installed and all types of media play, but...

(sorry to cross post this but I can't figure out how to delete it) I have a legit version of XP Media Center 2005 with all my TV programs and videos stored on a separate harddrive to play on my home theater PC. Last night I did a clean install of a pre-release version of Windows 7...

I recently went from Vista 32-bit to Windows 7 32-bit on my Acer 5536g laptop and I can't for the life of me get the DVD burner to work. It worked fine on Windows Vista: I used Windows DVD Maker to encode and burn DVDs to watch on my DVD player. However, after having switched to Windows 7...

I just installed windows 7 and everything installed perfectly and the drivers work well, i installed vlc player and im playing an avi file using vlc player and the windows them goes to windows 7 basic color scheme and there will be just sound, no video..its just a black screen and i even used...

Hi All, I've been trying to trigger mfpmp.exe (introduced from Vista) by playing a wmv file, but fail to see mfpmp.exe running in the task manager...while wmplayer.exe runs! The same wmv file when played on windows Vista was showing up both wmplayer.exe and mfpmp.exe:( Note that Windows7 has...

I recently installed Windows 7 RC1 x64 from the download Microsoft had been providing. I have many questions about it as a new user to Windows 7 and am curious if there are solutions to these, or if they are known bugs. Also, some questions are more general in nature. 1) Sometimes while using...

I've been using the 7260 version for a week now and suddenly WMP12 won't play any audio. I have not installed anything to my knowledge that could have affected this. I haven't intalled any codecs or anything like that. Does anyone have any idea what may have happened and how I can remedy this? I...

Has anyone got Directv2pc to work? I am using Windows 7 rc . I have it working somewhat. It will start and load a movie and start to play then it will tell me several error messages, audio drivers not protected content, video drivers not running on a protected screen. I have tried to run it in...

I have spent the whole evening looking for a solution to my problem but cant find one so i though i may as well just post it up. I have Windows 7 Installed on my laptop as a dual boot with XP. I installed it from my USB HDD and it all works amazingly well considering how rubbish the spec is...

Hi. I didn't found anything about this on the searches, if there is anything, please, redirect me. The thing is, when trying to play divx movies, both windows media player and media center crash. I have the latest Intel graphic drivers (came through Windows Update) and divx drivers installed...

My Windows 7 is unable to read any CD/DVDs I put and I've tried several methods like uninstalling driver, reboot then let it auto reinstall again. Nothing works. My device name is optiarc dvd+-rw ad-5540a ata. Hope someone can help me :frown:

so i'm trying to get my mkvs to work in media center and they don't work. Mkvs play fine in media player 12, but when i load in MC i get a Cannot play find file. Here is screenshot Link Removed - Invalid URL I'm running beta 7000 x64 installed shark's windows 7 codec Here are my...

Hi there, This new problem I have started facing after I rolled back Kaspersky WKS from build 1071 to build 1015. WMP has completely stopped working. It just does not open up. I tried exiting the KAV but still no effect. VLC and Media player classic seems to be working fine. I do not know what...

So I got into Windows Media Center last night and struck gold. I found a really cool concert video by Alanis Morissette. It went on for about an hour and a half. I'm still learning how to use WMC, so it's acting quite clunky for me. But it does have some interesting content. I'm curious...

1.Instal your Bs Player and choose download all codec auto 2.open BS Player right click and choose options/preferences 3.choose video option 4.select video rendering on right side 5.rendering mode: choose EVR [Enhanced video renderer] 6.thats all Link Removed Link Removed

hiya, does anyone have a clue as to why windows media player should be blocking me playing Link Removed in Win7 beta 7k, taken from Link Removed - Invalid URL ? all I get is the firewall could be blocking message but from what i can see in firewall advanced settings internet is allowed in...