I have recently reinstalled MCE from my OEM disk and have got everything up
and running, except for the fact that it refuses to install Rollup 2. I have
all the .NET software that it needs (I believe) and have tryed everything to
my knowledge. I am missing a DVD encoder so I am hoping this Rollup fixes
that.

You need someone elses MPEG-2 codec to use with media center. Usually
this comes bundled with video cards. Cyberlink PowerDVD is what came
with a video card I bought some time ago and it works fine -providing
the needed codecs to Media Center 2005.

There are other DVD players, and they also can provide the necesssary
codecs.

More recently Nero 7 Essentials comes with codecs and while I am
unsure if they have all that you need I was able to get Media Player 9
to recognize (with a 3rd party plugin) Apples M4A files and play
them.

Media Player 11 does not like the M4A metatag plug-in so I have to use
the older version 9 that comes with WIndows XP as the default player.

When installing Windows MCE fresh, do Windows update first, then
install you applications, and you should be fine.


On Thu, 7 Feb 2008 17:06:00 -0800, thedrewster08
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>I have recently reinstalled MCE from my OEM disk and have got everything up
>and running, except for the fact that it refuses to install Rollup 2. I have
>all the .NET software that it needs (I believe) and have tryed everything to
>my knowledge. I am missing a DVD encoder so I am hoping this Rollup fixes
>that.