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    MediaDirect Codecs

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by Bladez, Jun 16, 2006.

  1. Bladez

    Bladez Newbie

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    OOPS...

    Now with that said, I wiped my drive. I reinstalled XP MCE from the Dell restore CD. I noticed that after the install it went and did a 30 minute application install. I thought this was weird, so I checked Add/Remove once it was done, and noticed that it installed some junk. I saw the ESPN stuff, the Sonic Codecs, and two other things. I removed them all.

    Well, come to find out, apparently the CyberDVD for MediaDirect needs those codecs installed? The reason I say this is because I have the sample .dvr-ms files in my shared documents and I cannot open them. It says the codec is missing.

    Now I checked my XP MCE DVD, and I noticed that there is a Sonic.cab file in the OEM folder or somewhere. I can only assume that I need the files in that cab installed, however I have no idea how to actually install them.

    Does anyone know what the setup command is for those cab files? For a more specific path, the SONIC.CAB file is in DVD:\CMPNENTS\MEDIACTR\I386..

    Any thoughts?
     
    Bladez, Jun 16, 2006
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  2. 05Edge

    05Edge Notebook Consultant

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    The sonic codecs aren't junk unless you consider the bundled CD / DVD burning software junk. From what I've heard on here the applications installed in that 30 minutes are critical. ESPN isn't critical, but apparently comes with MCE, no biggie, still much better than the bloatware infested setup the laptop comes with. Sorry I couldn't answer your question, just thought I'd throw that in. Why don't you try to "repair" your install?
     
    05Edge, Jun 16, 2006
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  3. Unreal

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    The 30 minute install is the disk installing the MCE update.
     
    Unreal, Jun 16, 2006
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  4. Bladez

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    Well I did some quick Googling (Is that a word?) about the .dvr-ms files. I found out that they are just MPEG2 encoded videos. I found the GPL'd codec and installed it. THe .dvr-ms files play fine now. :)
     
    Bladez, Jun 22, 2006
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