No Video Output In Vista

[databyss]

I recently installed Vista Buisness on my computer.

My main drive is a 250GB Sata 2 drive that was running XP SP2 and GBPVR.
I'm using a Hauppauge PVR150 card on US Cable TV.

I shrunk the 250 drive to 150GB and installed Vista Business on the last 100GB of the drive.

After that, somehow my XP tv-tuner drivers got botched and I haven't been able to get that fixed. I've uninstalled everything, software, drivers and GBPVR with no luck. So i decided to try my luck with Vista.

I installed GBPVR on Vista with no problems. I configured the settings, updated the EPG and launched. The program seems to run fine, but when I want to watch Live TV I get audio but no video and the screen shows the last menu I was on. So if i go from tv guide and pick a show then pick watch, that whole menu stays on the screen. If i go straight to LiveTV the screen freezes as is.

I can right click and GBPVR handles it properly, it goes back to the main menu which is navigateable and i can load videos from YouTube and the video library without issues and they play fine.

Where should I start hunting this problem down? Drivers? Logs?

Need more information?

Thanks in advance for any help.

[sub]

Do you have video decoder installed?

Zip and attach the logs and I'll take a look.

[databyss]

If I remember correctly, everything is set for System Default.

I will attach the logs when I get home in a few hours, I am at work right now with no access to my home comp.

[sub]

I dont think Vista Business has a MPEG2 video decoder installed by default, so you would have needed to install one, or some software that included one.

[thePinkPig]

I'm also having this problem - and alas it seems really difficult to find a codec that works. Installing VLC doesn't work, I'm currently watching DVDs through Nero home, which hasn't worked - I can't get GBPVR working (I get a blank screen) and I can't get DVDs to play in Media Player.

[sub]

VLC doesnt install any video decoders.

Common decoders people install are included Cyberlink PowerDVD or Intervideo WinDVD, or the nvidia purevideo decoders from the nvidia store, and there are a few free ones on the net (gplmpgdec from http://sourceforge.net/projects/gplmpgdec/ and 'mpv decoder from http://www.free-codecs.com/download/MPV_Decoder.htm)

[databyss]

I installed the gplmpgdec decoder and rebooted and got the following error:

"Error: Attempted to read or write protected memory. This is often an indication that other memory is corrupt."

I set the decoder back to system default and i get the audio but no video again.

Here are my log files:

[databyss]

I installed the codec package from: http://www.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia/...kage.shtml

And then set the video coded in GBPVR to "CyberLink Video/SP Decoder" and everything seems to work properly.

Thanks for your help.