Playback inconsistency

[SolarCurve]

Howdy folks,
It's been a while since I posted in here but I refuse to give up on GBPVR. I use it quite a bit for recording and I would use it all the time if I could get past some bugs.

It seems that my gbpvr will be fine while and play 'most' files with no problems. MPEG's are fine, and Divx videos I created with DivX convertor are fine. If I try and use someone elses' mpegs it stops after starting to play for a few seconds. Most of the time it takes me back to the menu and other times it completely crashes GBPVR.

These same files play like a champ under the native MVP softwre from Hauppauge. They also play fine on the computer with no issues.

I started looking through the logs and I noticed this below. I am hoping that this might be the solution for my issue.

20:49:37.270 VERBOSE AVI file type.
20:49:37.290 ERROR MainConcept (Hauppauge) MPEG Encoder not found. This is normally installed with the Hauppauge MediaMVP software, and is required to transcode a video file.

20:49:37.290 INFO T4

While this isn't the whole log file the rest is just normal verbosity. Anyone else have any idea's? I do have the MVP software installed so it "shouldn't" be missing. Thanks for your time and help, it's appreciated.

[paperchaser]

Could you please clarify something you wrote....

You say you are having problems playing your friend's mpegs...but clearly these are not mpeg files because transcoding is necessary? Did you mean to say divx?

[pBS]

i bet a re-install of the MVP software would work...
if not,check the status of the encoder filter with g-spot or something like that..
look for Mainconcept-hauppauge encoder..
the files should be in Winxp\system32\hauppauge\ check those first...if nothing there,re-install..
geez i hate direct-show filters in windoze!
soooo unreliable..it's really goofy how xp handles them..[merits etc]
they could be installed and still not work cuz of merits messed up or other filters conflicting..so it's play and pray...
[and when all else fails, dump it and install a fresh windows!]
[only as a last resort]