Media Center not playing anything well on Vista Ultimate 64

> Hello,
>
> My Problem...
> ... with Media Center goes a bit beyond the problems everyone else
> seems
> to be having. The video on my machine is more or less nonexistant. DVD's
> just never start playing through media center nor do mp4's. It isn't just
> the video I am having problems with though; the audio file playback is
> terrible as well. Music simply stutters about five time per seccond which
> makes MC impossible to use. This leads me to believe that it may not be
> entirely a video driver problem, but what do I know. Media player
> performs
> exactly the same which makes a bit of sense I suppose. On the possitive
> side, CD's play through MC just fine, makes me wonder if I just buy myself
> a
> $250 upgrade for a CD player. =)
>
> My machine...
> ... is trying to run Windows Vista Ultimate 64bit. My hardware
> consists
> of an NVidia nForce 4 SLI X16 mobo, AMD Dual Core 64 bit processor, dual
> NVidia 7800 GTX graphics, and an old soundblaster Audigy 2ZS. My system
> apparently rates striaght 5.9's on the Windows experience index for
> whatever
> that's worth.
>
> My attempts to fix the problem include...
> ... updating the bios of my machine, updating all the drivers for my
> hardware (which might still be the problem admittedly what with all the
> betas), and even tried installing some new codecs. Another attempt that I
> have made involved downloading and using Media Center Classic which
> actually
> plays all the mp3's, wma's everything just fine. This also leads me to
> believe it's not necessarily the drivers on my system. All the software
> uses
> the same video drivers correct? But again, I am no expert.
>
> And since I am no expert I will ask here on this forum, "Has anyone else
> had
> problems of this degree with Vista 64 and Media Center yet?" More
> importantly, is there anything I can do to fix media center and/or media
> player?"
>
> Thanks for reading,
> Even more thanks for answering,
> And I'll send you a pizza or something if you can fix my problem. =)
>
> Chuck

> sorry, here's the link
>
> Billy
>
> http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
>
>
> "Chuck" <Chuck@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:7578D265-C7BC-436C-8703-663F13036F14@microsoft.com...

> > Hello,
> >
> > My Problem...
> > ... with Media Center goes a bit beyond the problems everyone else
> > seems
> > to be having. The video on my machine is more or less nonexistant. DVD's
> > just never start playing through media center nor do mp4's. It isn't just
> > the video I am having problems with though; the audio file playback is
> > terrible as well. Music simply stutters about five time per seccond which
> > makes MC impossible to use. This leads me to believe that it may not be
> > entirely a video driver problem, but what do I know. Media player
> > performs
> > exactly the same which makes a bit of sense I suppose. On the possitive
> > side, CD's play through MC just fine, makes me wonder if I just buy myself
> > a
> > $250 upgrade for a CD player. =)
> >
> > My machine...
> > ... is trying to run Windows Vista Ultimate 64bit. My hardware
> > consists
> > of an NVidia nForce 4 SLI X16 mobo, AMD Dual Core 64 bit processor, dual
> > NVidia 7800 GTX graphics, and an old soundblaster Audigy 2ZS. My system
> > apparently rates striaght 5.9's on the Windows experience index for
> > whatever
> > that's worth.
> >
> > My attempts to fix the problem include...
> > ... updating the bios of my machine, updating all the drivers for my
> > hardware (which might still be the problem admittedly what with all the
> > betas), and even tried installing some new codecs. Another attempt that I
> > have made involved downloading and using Media Center Classic which
> > actually
> > plays all the mp3's, wma's everything just fine. This also leads me to
> > believe it's not necessarily the drivers on my system. All the software
> > uses
> > the same video drivers correct? But again, I am no expert.
> >
> > And since I am no expert I will ask here on this forum, "Has anyone else
> > had
> > problems of this degree with Vista 64 and Media Center yet?" More
> > importantly, is there anything I can do to fix media center and/or media
> > player?"
> >
> > Thanks for reading,
> > Even more thanks for answering,
> > And I'll send you a pizza or something if you can fix my problem. =)
> >
> > Chuck

>