it was long enough back where rolling back using System Restore will cause me
a lot more problems. A bunch of other stuff has been installed since then
and I've since upgraded the graphics card (nvidia to ATi.)

"Graham Hughes" wrote:

> try system restore back to before you installed nero, lots of apps leave
> loads of legacy stuff in your system which causes trouble, or can remove
> stuff you do need when uninstalling
>
>
> --
> Graham Hughes
> MVP Digital Media
>
>
> "jz78817" <jz78817@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:731BA1B8-BD0B-4B6F-B0EF-4C10D015C9EF@microsoft.com...
> > Hi, I'm having serious issues with mpeg2 playback on my system (retail
> > Vista
> > Home Premium x64, fully up-to-date.) I first noticed the problem when
> > Media
> > Center was not playing the video portion of live TV (I was using a
> > Hauppauge
> > PVR card, but swapped in an ATi Theater 550 to test.) Further testing
> > shows
> > that anything using the default decoders (i.e. Windows Media Player) fails
> > to
> > play any mpeg2 file- I get audio, but no video. A lot of searching has
> > led
> > me to believe that the problem was caused when I installed Nero 7 for a
> > short
> > time. I've since uninstalled Nero, but I'm still having the same problem.
> > When I try to play an mpeg-2 file in Media Player and look at the file
> > properties, it tells me that it's using the "MainConcept MPEG Video
> > Decoder."
> > I'm assuming this isn't the decoder provided by Microsoft.
> >
> > Since Nero has been uninstalled, and there's nothing listed in "Programs
> > and
> > Features" that looks like it would affect that decoder, can anyone tell me
> > how I might nuke this (obviously broken) decoder and go back to the
> > Microsoft-provided one? Media Center is all but useless to me without
> > this
> > working.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Jim
>
>
>