i have my dvd collection stored on a terabyte station.windows media player
will play these dvd from files,but media centre wont.it says no decoder
installed or decoder malfunction.can anyone help

You need a Media Center compatible DVD Decoder.

This download will tell you if you have an MCE 2005 compatible decoder installed.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en

A list of MCE 2005 compatible DVD Decoders can be found here

http://www.dougknox.com/xpmce/dvddecoders.htm

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"garbea01" <garbea01@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:E96386FE-E63B-4859-83A2-0DC473DE99FE@microsoft.com...
>i have my dvd collection stored on a terabyte station.windows media player
> will play these dvd from files,but media centre wont.it says no decoder
> installed or decoder malfunction.can anyone help

THANKS.I DOWNLOADED NEW DECODER NOW WORKS FINE.I HAVE THE SAME PROBLEM WITH
TV.I HAVE A TV CARD INSTALLED WHICH WORKS FINE.WHEN I SWITCH TO MCE IT SAYS
NO CARD OR DRIVERS INSTALLED.

"garbea01" wrote:

> i have my dvd collection stored on a terabyte station.windows media player
> will play these dvd from files,but media centre wont.it says no decoder
> installed or decoder malfunction.can anyone help