Install this update to address the DRM subscriptions service’s inability to extract metering data from certain portable devices while attempting to synchronize metering data on a client computer running the Microsoft Windows Media Format 11 SDK.
Download: Update for Windows Media Format 11 SDK for Windows XP | x64 | MoreInfo
Microsoft Windows Mobile Device Center enables you to set up new partnerships, synchronize content and manage music, pictures and video with any Windows Mobile 2003 or Windows Mobile 5.0 powered device. It combines an efficient business-data synchronization platform with a compelling user experience. It helps you to quickly set up new partnerships, synchronize business-critical information such as e-mail, contacts and calendar appointments, and easily manage your synchronization settings. The Windows Mobile Device Center Beta simplifies managing media between your Windows Mobile powered device and your desktop PC. With the picture acquisition wizard, you can easily tag and transfer all of the pictures from your Windows Mobile powered device to your desktop PC’s Windows Photo Gallery. Microsoft Windows Media Player helps you keep the music on your Windows Mobile powered device up-to-date.
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Microsoft Windows Mobile Device Center Driver for Windows Vista (x86) | MoreInfo
Microsoft Windows Mobile Device Center Driver for Windows Vista (AMD64) | MoreInfo
The NVIDIA PureVideo Decoder combines the industry's highest quality DVD and MPEG-2 playback with rich surround sound audio and provides the best experience with Microsoft Windows Media Player and Windows Media Center Edition.Featuring Dolby Digital surround sound audio and hardware-accelerated video on all Microsoft DirectX compatible graphics processors, the NVIDIA PureVideo Decoder delivers unmatched color fidelity and smooth DVD, video, and TV viewing. The NVIDIA PureVideo Decoder is also the best way to experience PureVideo on your NVIDIA GeForce 6 Series GPU, enabling such features as spatial temporal de-interlacing, inverse telecine, and bad edit correction.
The NVIDIA PureVideo Decoder is the first software decoder to receive the "Designed for Media Center Edition" certification, ensuring that it will deliver premium video quality and unmatched performance for Media Center PCs. In addition, the NVIDIA PureVideo Decoder is designed to work with Portable Media Centers allowing users to take their recorded TV shows with them on the road.
NOTE:
If codecs are figuring out they're running from debugger (also if used from programs with Armadillo), they will not work anymore. So, be careful while using it.
Windows Media Player 11 for Windows XP offers you unmatched choice and flexibility for your digital media. Easily manage your libraries of digital music, photos, and videos on your computer, and then sync with a variety of portable devices so you can enjoy it all wherever you want.
NOTE:
If you use Windows Media Player to access a favorite online store, some are not available for this beta release. The following stores are available in the Windows Media Player 11 beta release: Audible, f.y.e., Live365, Movielink, MSN Music, Napster, Passalong, Puretracks, URGE, Wal-Mart and XM Radio. For more information, see the Readme.
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The nVIDIA PureVideo Decoder combines the industry’s highest quality DVD and MPEG-2 playback with rich surround sound audio and provides the best experience with Microsoft Windows Media Player and Windows Media Center Edition.The nVIDIA PureVideo Decoder is now the new name of the nVIDIA DVD Decoder.
Featuring Dolby® Digital surround sound audio and hardware-accelerated video on all Microsoft DirectX® compatible graphics processors, the NVIDIA PureVideo Decoder, a plug-in for Microsoft Windows Media Player and Media Center Edition, delivers unmatched color fidelity and smooth DVD, video, and TV viewing. The NVIDIA PureVideo Decoder is also the best way to experience NVIDIA PureVideo on your NVIDIA® GeForce™ 6 and 7 Series GPUs, enabling smooth, vibrant, and vivid videos.
The NVIDIA PureVideo Decoder is the first software decoder to receive the “Designed for Media Center Edition” certification, ensuring that it will deliver premium video quality and unmatched performance for Media Center PCs. In addition, the NVIDIA PureVideo Decoder supports the transcoding function for Windows Mobile Portable Media Centers found within Windows Media Player.
Features of nVIDIA PureVideo Decoder 1.02-196:
- Enables DVD viewing with Microsoft Windows Media® Player or Microsoft Windows Media Center Edition
- High quality MPEG-2 decoder supports any third party software application based upon Microsoft DirectShow
- Enables PureVideo technology on GeForce 6 Series GPUs
- Dolby Digital surround sound decoding
- Minimizes CPU utilization by offloading the MPEG-2 decoding onto the graphics processor
- Enables advanced de-interlacing
- Decodes high-definition MPEG-2 streams for ATSC tuners
- Supports Windows Mobile-based Portable Media Centers allowing end users to transcode MPEG-2 content into Windows Media Video 9
- S/PDIF pass through for external decoding of Dolby Digital and DTS (compatible hardware required)
Changes in nVIDIA PureVideo Decoder 1.02-196 :
- Support for High Definition (HD) inverse telecine on compatible GPUs. See http://www.nvidia.com/page/purevideo.html for a list of supported GPUs.
After installing the PureVideo Decoder and using the MCE "speaker setup" wizard to select 5.1 speakers, the audio will only be set in 2 channel stereo mode. This is a known issue with Microsoft Media Center Edition 2005 Update Rollup2. You may download this patch to fix the problem. The patch sets the proper value for 5.1 analog and must be run after using the speaker setup wizard. Note: You must run this patch every time after you run the wizard in order for the settings to remain active.
- Other compatibility fixes, click here to view the User’s Guide
The nVIDIA PureVideo Decoder combines the industry’s highest quality DVD and MPEG-2 playback with rich surround sound audio and provides the best experience with Microsoft Windows Media Player and Windows Media Center Edition.Version: 1.02-177
Release Date: October 20, 2005
Release Notes
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nVidia PureVideo v1.02-177
The nVIDIA PureVideo Decoder combines the industry’s highest quality DVD and MPEG-2 playback with rich surround sound audio and provides the best experience with Microsoft Windows Media Player and Windows Media Center Edition.The nVIDIA PureVideo Decoder is now the new name of the nVIDIA DVD Decoder.
Features of nVIDIA PureVideo Decoder 1.02-150:
- Enables DVD viewing with Microsoft Windows Media® Player or Microsoft Windows Media Center Edition
- High quality MPEG-2 decoder supports any third party software application based upon Microsoft DirectShow
- Enables PureVideo technology on GeForce 6 Series GPUs
- Dolby Digital surround sound decoding
- Minimizes CPU utilization by offloading the MPEG-2 decoding onto the graphics processor
- Enables advanced de-interlacing
- Decodes high-definition MPEG-2 streams for ATSC tuners
- Supports Windows Mobile-based Portable Media Centers allowing end users to transcode MPEG-2 content into Windows Media Video 9
- S/PDIF pass through for external decoding of Dolby Digital and DTS (compatible hardware required)
Changes in nVIDIA PureVideo Decoder 1.02-150 :
- Compatibility Fixes for New Windows Media Center BETA
- Windows Media Player 10 and Media Center Edition, added seamless playback of ATSC and DVB transport streams in both SD and HD formats.
- Improved the smoothness of HD MPEG-2 material for Windows Media Player 10.
- Windows Media Encoder 9 - added support for UVYV output formats
- Set Smart de-interlacing control setting as the new default.
- Implemented a method for catching bad edits (gapping time stamps) from 3-2 film, and soften them in - Smart mode. This helps eliminate the combing effect in some scenes of the "Making of the Big Lebowski."
- Implemented support for inverse 2-2 mode.
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nVIDIA PureVideo Decoder 1.02-150
This unified driver has been further enhanced to provide the highest level of power, performance, and reliability. The ATI CATALYST software suite is the ultimate in performance and stability.
Includes Display Driver, Control Panel and WDM Integrated Driver.
Catalyst 5.6 introduces full hardware acceleration of Microsoft Windows Media Video (WMV) files when using DirectX 9 shaders.
Fixed in this driver:
* MS Works 8.0: Running the application under a German edition of Windows XP no longer results in an error message being displayed when clicking on the calendar
* MVP Baseball 2004: Playing the game under Windows XP with an ATI PCIe product installed no longer results in brief display corruption being noticed when there is a transition between certain frames
* Shadow Vault: Setting the desktop resolution to 1280×1024 and the D3D slider to Optimal Quality in the ATI 3D tab no longer results in corruption being displayed in the opening cinematic and no longer results in the game failing to respond along with a VPU recover message
* VirtualSkipper3: Launching a challenge in the game no longer results in the game failing to respond while the challenge is loading
* Assigning a hotkey to increase the overlay gamma no longer results in the hotkey not functioning properly when playing an MPEG using the Windows Media Player
* Installing the display driver and the Catalyst鈩?Control Center, no longer results in a runtime error and the system tray failing to start when attempting to create multiple user accounts and enabling fast user switching
* The Catalyst鈩?Control Center installation now checks for the installation of the Microsoft .Net Framework before preceding with the install of the Catalyst鈩?Control Center. This resolves an error message that was displayed when attempting to launch the Catalyst鈩?Control Center
* The Scale to Full Screen option found in the Theater Mode settings of the Catalyst鈩?Control Center is now available when using multiple display devices and enabling clone mode
* The text that describes the preferred setting for the Plugged-in option found under the Powerplay鈩?settings of the Catalyst鈩?Control Center is no longer missing
* Catalyst鈩?Control Center: The Apply and Discard button are no longer disabled when disabling Overdrive鈩?br />
* Moving the TV to desktop2 and selecting swap device or double up no longer results in the CRT being in panning mode and display corruption being seen on the TV
* The Optimal Performance text string is no longer missing in the Standard settings of the 3D options found in the Catalyst鈩?Control Center
* The Color option found under Smartshader is no longer missing when selecting the option No Preview for the Catalyst鈩?Control Center
* Changing the regional option found in the control panel to Japan followed by installing the display driver no longer results in the TV format failing to change in accordance with the regional option
* Selecting German as the language for the Catalyst鈩?Control Center no longer results in the heading for the Digital Panel Attributes page being cut-off
* Creating a hotkey to adjust any video overlay option no longer results in the overlay option not changing when executing the hotkey
* Black text boxes are no longer displayed in the Overdrive鈩?option of the Catalyst鈩?Control Center when selecting the Windows XP Silver Color Scheme
* The language translation of Hide Toolbar Text in the Preferences tab of the Catalyst鈩?Control Center is now correct for the Korean language
* Paragraph truncation is no longer noticed in the confirmation dialog box when using the Korean language option and making a change to the Graphic Settings in the Display Options of the Catalyst鈩?Control Center
* Changes to the Overlay Display in Clone Mode option found in the Theater Mode settings of the Catalyst鈩?Control Center are now retained
* The Scale to full screen option found in the Theater Mode Settings of the Catalyst鈩?Control Center is now working properly
* The title for the ATI Setup Wizard failed dialog box is no longer missing when running the installation under Windows XP Korean version
* Display corruption is no longer noticed when resuming from a full screen DOS session and attempting to run a 3D application under Windows XP in a system containing an ATI Radeon庐 Xpress 200 series product
* Connecting an HDTV to an ATI Radeon庐 Xpress 200 series no longer results in the selection of D3 and D4 in the HDTV properties
* Connecting both a DVI display device and an HDTV to an ATI Radeon庐 Xpress 200 series no longer results in the DVI monitor failing to enter power save mode
* The back lighting is no longer disabled after the installing of the display driver in a system containing an ATI Radeon庐 Xpress 200 series
* Setting the Anti-Aliasing option to 4x and running an application that supports non-standard modes such as 1360×1024 no longer results in the application being displayed incorrectly
* LCD Response Time Composition is now enabled and automatically turns off if video playback is below a predefined threshold
* Adding a secondary ATI display adapter to a system contain an ATI Radeon庐 Xpress 200 series on board no longer results in hesitation being noticed when using the hot-key function to switch between display devices
* Having a TV connected as the only display device and clicking the OK button in the ATI displays tab found in the Advanced section of the Display Properties no longer results in a flash of the TV image being noticed
* Having a TV and CRT connected and clicking on Preview Automatic adjustment in the Optimize Media Center no longer results in both display devices displaying a black screen
- In addition to supporting ATI mobility products, Catalyst 5.6 drivers promise to increase performance in most new games and benchmarks.
No word on any increase in Half-Life 2 based game performance which has suffered in recent releases.
Microsoft have issued a fix for Windows Media Player 9 & 10 that fixes color smearing or a bleeding effect when you play MPEG4 videos.
According to the knowledge base article at Microsoft, this is caused by the MPEG4 codec, sometimes using invalid motion vectors.
SYMPTOMS
In Microsoft Windows Media Player 9 or 10, you may experience a color smearing or bleeding effect when you play some MPEG4 videos. This behavior often occurs when the video contains fast-moving scenes of varying colors.
CAUSE
This problem occurs because of an issue with the way that the MPEG4 codec handles motion vectors. Sometimes, the decoder mistakenly uses invalid motion vectors.
“I had the opportunity to pick one of these up during a visit to Seattle, but I didn’t take it because it would have been incompatible with my UK X-Box, a shame really as it is one thing I have always wanted my X-Box to do. However, I rest assured that I know it is coming…”
So you have a Microsoft Windows Media Center Edition 2005 (MCE) PC and it’s been working wonderfully but you want more. You want to be able to play back those recorded TV shows, audio files, and photographs from other locations in your home. Perhaps your PC is located away from your home theater system where you would ideally like to view your content. Well to meet these needs, Microsoft unveiled the Media Center Extender (MCX) concept in the beginning of 2004. We’re just now seeing the first examples of these MCX systems.
A in-depth review by flung over at WhiningDog can be found rather coincidentally at WhiningDog.
What a cool remote!
Jed Rose also let me know that a support webcast occured last night:
You can now enjoy media content in new ways in your home with Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005, Media Center Extender, and Windows Media Center Extender for Microsoft Xbox. Whether it is live TV, recorded TV, or digital music, you can broadcast digital entertainment throughout your home. Media Center Extender devices connect a Media Center PC with TVs and monitors in the home so that you can enjoy TV, photos, music, and movies on any TV in your house. Expert Zone columnist Barb Bowman explains how to set up and use these new technologies at home and how to obtain help from the online community when you need it.
You can download the presentation video or even view the powerpoint presentation from the relevent page: