I love Vista Home Ed... But some serious tweaks are needed ASAP!

"Paul" <p@p.com> wrote in message
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>I just bought my new laptop Friday night and have been playing with it none
>stop since. The Media Centre kicks-***, I love it!!
>
> are there any codec that I can get so I can play .avi video with HP
> Quickplay or Media Centre? I have a video camera that records in .avi,
> windows media player will play it no problem, but HP Quickplay won't.
>
> anyways, I have used all the Windows versions and many Linux Distros, but
> this Vista Home Premium Edition is SWEEETTTT!!!
>
> Cheers
> Paul
> --
>
> HP Pavilion V9000 Entertainment Laptop
> dual core 1.8/160GB/2GB ram/335MB Graphic/17" wide screen


You need to find out what codec you need. It's likely xvid or divx.

http://www.xvid.org/

http://www.divx.com/

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Kerry Brown
Microsoft MVP - Shell/User
http://www.vistahelp.ca

Did you click on the links. They will tell you if they are free.

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Kerry Brown
Microsoft MVP - Shell/User
http://www.vistahelp.ca


"Paul" <p@p.com> wrote in message
news:Ox57s%23O3HHA.3760@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> Hi Kerry,
> are these free?
>
> --
>
> HP Pavilion V9000 Entertainment Laptop
> Vista Home Premium/dual core 1.8/160GB/2GB ram/335MB Graphic/17"
> widescreen
> "Kerry Brown" <kerry@kdbNOSPAMsys-tems.c*a*m> wrote in message
> news:eG85Y4O3HHA.5880@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>> "Paul" <p@p.com> wrote in message
>> news:unxsZvO3HHA.536@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>>>I just bought my new laptop Friday night and have been playing with it
>>>none stop since. The Media Centre kicks-***, I love it!!
>>>
>>> are there any codec that I can get so I can play .avi video with HP
>>> Quickplay or Media Centre? I have a video camera that records in .avi,
>>> windows media player will play it no problem, but HP Quickplay won't.
>>>
>>> anyways, I have used all the Windows versions and many Linux Distros,
>>> but this Vista Home Premium Edition is SWEEETTTT!!!
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>> Paul
>>> --
>>>
>>> HP Pavilion V9000 Entertainment Laptop
>>> dual core 1.8/160GB/2GB ram/335MB Graphic/17" wide screen
>>
>>
>> You need to find out what codec you need. It's likely xvid or divx.
>>
>> http://www.xvid.org/
>>
>> http://www.divx.com/
>>
>> --
>> Kerry Brown
>> Microsoft MVP - Shell/User
>> http://www.vistahelp.ca
>>
>>
>

Hi Paul

I am not Kerry but they are free. You can get the Pro version but that costs money. Otherwise they are free

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"Paul" <p@p.com> wrote in message news:Ox57s%23O3HHA.3760@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> Hi Kerry,
> are these free?
>
> --
>
> HP Pavilion V9000 Entertainment Laptop
> Vista Home Premium/dual core 1.8/160GB/2GB ram/335MB Graphic/17" widescreen
> "Kerry Brown" <kerry@kdbNOSPAMsys-tems.c*a*m> wrote in message
> news:eG85Y4O3HHA.5880@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>> "Paul" <p@p.com> wrote in message
>> news:unxsZvO3HHA.536@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>>>I just bought my new laptop Friday night and have been playing with it
>>>none stop since. The Media Centre kicks-***, I love it!!
>>>
>>> are there any codec that I can get so I can play .avi video with HP
>>> Quickplay or Media Centre? I have a video camera that records in ..avi,
>>> windows media player will play it no problem, but HP Quickplay won't.
>>>
>>> anyways, I have used all the Windows versions and many Linux Distros,
>>> but this Vista Home Premium Edition is SWEEETTTT!!!
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>> Paul
>>> --
>>>
>>> HP Pavilion V9000 Entertainment Laptop
>>> dual core 1.8/160GB/2GB ram/335MB Graphic/17" wide screen
>>
>>
>> You need to find out what codec you need. It's likely xvid or divx.
>>
>> http://www.xvid.org/
>>
>> http://www.divx.com/
>>
>> --
>> Kerry Brown
>> Microsoft MVP - Shell/User
>> http://www.vistahelp.ca
>>
>>
>

I just bought my new laptop Friday night and have been playing with it none
stop since. The Media Centre kicks-***, I love it!!

are there any codec that I can get so I can play .avi video with HP
Quickplay or Media Centre? I have a video camera that records in .avi,
windows media player will play it no problem, but HP Quickplay won't.

anyways, I have used all the Windows versions and many Linux Distros, but
this Vista Home Premium Edition is SWEEETTTT!!!

Cheers
Paul
--

HP Pavilion V9000 Entertainment Laptop
dual core 1.8/160GB/2GB ram/335MB Graphic/17" wide screen

Hi Kerry,
are these free?

--

HP Pavilion V9000 Entertainment Laptop
Vista Home Premium/dual core 1.8/160GB/2GB ram/335MB Graphic/17" widescreen
"Kerry Brown" <kerry@kdbNOSPAMsys-tems.c*a*m> wrote in message
news:eG85Y4O3HHA.5880@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> "Paul" <p@p.com> wrote in message
> news:unxsZvO3HHA.536@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>>I just bought my new laptop Friday night and have been playing with it
>>none stop since. The Media Centre kicks-***, I love it!!
>>
>> are there any codec that I can get so I can play .avi video with HP
>> Quickplay or Media Centre? I have a video camera that records in .avi,
>> windows media player will play it no problem, but HP Quickplay won't.
>>
>> anyways, I have used all the Windows versions and many Linux Distros,
>> but this Vista Home Premium Edition is SWEEETTTT!!!
>>
>> Cheers
>> Paul
>> --
>>
>> HP Pavilion V9000 Entertainment Laptop
>> dual core 1.8/160GB/2GB ram/335MB Graphic/17" wide screen
>
>
> You need to find out what codec you need. It's likely xvid or divx.
>
> http://www.xvid.org/
>
> http://www.divx.com/
>
> --
> Kerry Brown
> Microsoft MVP - Shell/User
> http://www.vistahelp.ca
>
>