This is troubling -- if true.
This business of upgrading Windows and LOSING capabilities -- as seems to be
the case in moving from XP, with extensive multilingual capabilities, to
Vista.
Seems Microsoft decided to change several things. I have XP Pro.
1. I wanted to upgrade to Home Premium. Its $40 cheaper than Business.
2. I couldn't because it only allows a clean install, didn't want.
3. I got a business upgrade, that will support a install in place.
4. I lose, the media center feature I wanted, that's only in Home P.
5. I lose, the ability to directly burn DVD's in business from Vista.
It gets funnier. As I've mentioned a few times I do a lot of video
work. So I burn a lot of DVD's of my own creation and help others with
editing and so on. Well this is the funny part, if I put a DVD I made
into the DVD player burned using Easy Creator 9, it plays alright in
Media Player. However if I take the source file (a mpeg-2) and try to
play that in Media Player it won't let me, pretending it doesn't
understand the codec. Codecs that play the same mpeg-2 files, actually
several were carried over from my XP install. Further, Media Player is
playing dumb with some AVI files. Again it has the codecs, again
because they were carried over from my XP install. I know they got
installed because every other player I have installed on this system
plays them fine, but not the default player, Media Player again.
It gets more silly. If I open a folder with has nothing but video
files in it, all types, mpeg, avi, etc., Vista has no trouble opening
the very same mpeg-2 files to create a thumbnail of it yet it refuses
to actually play the files it obviously had to open to make the
thumbnail in Media Player. Some AVI files for some reason Vista
refuses to make a thumbnail of, but you guessed it, some of these same
files play fine in Media Player.
I'd say Vista is a little confused on some things. <wink>
