Extender will not play video

  I've read through many of the posts regarding this issue trying to resolve my
own problem which is that all "My Videos" won't play on the extender, but
will play on the Media Center PC. I've exported them as MPEG2 hoping that
would work with no luck, and I've also tried to convert them to WMV9, but
that doesn't work either. When I try to play these files, it either hangs or
I get a an error message that looks like a windows error message (with the
option to either report or not report it) that states that Media center has
experieced an error and will need to be shut down.  However, this error does
not appear on the Media Center PC. When I restart the extender, I either get
the message that the host is very busy or the message that it is in
hibernation or stand by etc..... Can someone please help, I'd really like to
be able to play these home movies through the extenders ( I have two, both
with the same problem).

 I've found some more info after this last post that might help.  I checked
the event viewer to see if there were any application errors around that time
and found the following two:

Source: Media Center Remote Manager
Unauthorized window was detect while running the Media Center Experience,
'Media Center', with file name 'C:\WINDOWS\system32\dwwin.exe'.

Source: Application Error
Faulting application ehshell.exe, version 5.1.2715.2812, faulting module
cinemastervideo.dll, version 2.7.6.9084, fault address 0x00014a28.


Again, any help would be appreciated.


"oully" wrote:

  That dll is from the Sonic Cinemaster DS Video decoder.
I'd get rid of that and try again.

If that was your MPEG2 decoder, I'd recommend you try using another one
(Nvidia's Purevideo or Cyberlink's PowerDVD as two examples).

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 Thanks Jason, I tried that and it worked.  However, I now have another
problem which is do I now own expensive software that I like to use but
can't.  Is there any way around this??

Let em know
Thanks....Jeff

"Jason Tsang" wrote:

 You might want to see if Sonic has an upgrade that doesn't exhibit the
problem?

Otherwise, it's really a choice between using that particular video decoder,
and the extender.

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Jason Tsang - Microsoft MVP

Read my blog for the latest in Media Center topics
(and other topics that interest me)
http://jtsang.blogspot.com

More information by me
http://jtsang.mvps.org
http://www.classicsunveiled.com

Find out about the MS MVP Program -
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/default.aspx