Media Center Crashing Vista Bugs and Problems Discuss Media Center Crashing in the Windows Vista forums; I recently built a Media Center PC using Vista Home Premium. I've had occasional hiccups, but the latest one baffles me. I am sharing videos on my other computer (...

[dmgpunk]

I recently built a Media Center PC using Vista Home Premium. I've had occasional hiccups, but the latest one baffles me.

I am sharing videos on my other computer (basically a torrent slave), which is running WinXP Pro, and have been accessing them successfully through Media Center. However, whenever I add a new video to the shared folder and then try to access it with my Vista PC it crashes Media Center.

The only solution I have found so far is to reinstall DivX. That is hardly a solution however, as I can't really reinstall it every time I want to move a file.

I also tried switching to ffdshow instead of normal DivX but that crashed Media Center even more often.

Curiously Media Center also crashes every time I try to check the scores for MLS though all other sports leagues work fine.

[crabby]

How very oddly random

I was under the impression DivX was yet to be Vista certified so I presume its a codec compatability issue.

Otherwise, I am stumped.

crabby

[Snuffy]

divx 4 codec - DivX 6.2 New Player Create and play high-quality ...divx 4 codec - DivX 6.2 New Player Create and play high-quality DivX video.
divx-4-codec.vista-files.org/ - 19k - Cached - Similar pages

http://divx-4-codec.vista-files.org/

PS: Remember that DIVX was a major problem back in all of Whistler and Wind XP...
Divx can also kill or render other RECORDER Programs worthless....
Whistler and XP - Roxio and Nero had problems with DIVX...
I post where you can find ... but if you have problems IT IS YOUR FAULT.

[dmgpunk]

Thanks for the responses, information, and willingness to help. A friend of mine suggested I try a modified version of FFDshow and it has fixed all of the problems, including the MLS scores one (not sure why that was affected...). Here's the link, I hope someone else finds it usefull.

http://ffdshow-tryout.sourceforge.net/

[crabby]

So it was a boring codec issue

Atleast it's fixed

crabby

[Snuffy]

Yes, very glad you found the fix.. another Codec problem..