I am trying to get an AVI video clip to play using Windows Media Center on a Dell Studio Laptop. The OS is Vista Ultimate 64 bit. The clip plays sound and not video This clip plays OK with Windows Media Player but not with Media Center. It also plays OK with Center and Player on my Dell Desktop,Inspiron 530S I downloaded GSpot from http://www.headbands.com/gspot/ and ran it. I got this error: Failed to create instance of Xvid Mpeg-4 Video Decoder CoCreate instance Failed Error Ox80040154 [Unknown] I am looking for suggestions on how to proceed from here. Thanks Frank C
Hi, I had the same problem before (Running in Windows Media Player on Windows Vista Home Premium 32-Bit), but after converting it to another format, it played fine. I think you should convert your file too (into a format that you know works with Windows Media Center) ansd see if it works... but I'd advise you to make a backup of it, just in case. If you haven't already got a video/file convertor program, you can download FORMAT FACTORY (1.70 is latest at present) from:which is a great file convertor, for videos, music, pictures and more.
This may be a stupid question, but do you have the latest Xvid codec installed? That MIGHT be part of the problem... might.
