[mythtv-users] Playback on Vista laptop

[Robert]

stuart wrote:
> 
> Brad DerManouelian wrote:
>> On Sep 3, 2008, at 4:34 PM, stuart wrote:
>>
>>> Bobby Gill wrote:
>>>> As a linux user who uses the occasional XP, I was just typing a  
>>>> document
>>>> on my dad's Vista laptop when a little popup dialog came up asking  
>>>> me if
>>>> I wanted to open media sharing with Mythbox MythTV AV Media server. I
>>>> was a bit perplexed and went through a few motions to open the  
>>>> sharing
>>>> access, then the Windows Media Player Library opens up and I saw in  
>>>> the
>>>> Video section all recordings from my mythbox server. I tried  
>>>> playing one
>>>> and it worked, but the reading is pretty slow, and I'm wondering if  
>>>> it's
>>>> already streaming or is it downloading the entire file to cache to  
>>>> then
>>>> playback, or what the method is. If it's not already, how can I  
>>>> have it
>>>> stream instead?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>> Bob
>> It is streaming. Just slowly for whatever reason.
>>
>>> I saw this thread and had to follow up!  I have a newly purchased HP
>>> Vista laptop and happened upon the Mythtv UPNP server similarly.
>>>
>>> However, in my experiance the Vista/HP Media Center (similar to the  
>>> one
>>> mentioned above??) only worked for NTSC recordings.  It did not work  
>>> for
>>> ATSC recordings - no matter what the resolution.  That is to say: It
>>> didn't work for ATSC 1080, it didn't work for ATSC 720 and it didn't
>>> even work for ATSC standard-definition (i.e. old TV shows (assume  
>>> 512 or
>>> 256).
>> It sounds like you don't have the proper codec installed in Windows  
>> Media Player to play back those files.
>>
>> -Brad
>>
> 
> Sorry to bump this so late (20+ days after last post) but I could use a 
> little help.
> 
> (I don't like the "try this and see what happens" approach and would 
> rather do something that has worked for others.)
> 
> I agree, the stock "HP Media Center" used to playback UPNP accessible 
> mythtv recordings is probably "short" w.r.t. codecs for playing back 
> ATSC OTA mythtv recordings.  But where do you get codecs for Vista?  I 
> found this (trusted) site:
> 
>> http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=06fcaab7-dcc9-466b-b0c4-04db144bb601&displaylang=en
> 
> ..but it has a date of publication which is over 4 years old!  And I'm 
> not sure if this M$ codec update package only works for the M$ media 
> player or will also work for the HP media player.  Humm, I'm not even 
> sure if the HP media player is a rebranded M$ media player.
> 
> ...thanks for any help.

I googled around codec packs a month or so ago to make Vista media 
player playback Mythtv recordings.  I eventually installed K-Lite Codec 
Pack - which worked for me.

I too was a bit wary of these "packs", but this one seemed to be used 
and recommended by quite a few people around the web.  Now just about 
every video I try to play works.

Robert.