I was previously unable to get video, or audio, or even record the stream on several channels (such as Film4) and this patch appears to have fixed that.
2013-04-20, 09:25 PM (This post was last modified: 2013-04-20, 09:50 PM by Zeb.)
I gather that many users did not install the W7 platform update to avoid its H.264 ramifications. I've wondered if it might be important to install the platform update before installing Current Patch 2?
[Edit] Oh dear, I'm a "Senior" Member now. Better watch what I say because someone might take me seriously.
The Microsoft decoder was first released only on some top of the range Vista versions before it was available on Windows 7/8and was never available on XP.
I am running Vista Business which does not have the decoder so I copied the two files msmpeg2adec.dll & msmpeg2vdec.dll from Vista Ultimate but cannot register either. I get 0x80004005 error which seems to be some sort of "Access denied" error but get it as Admin. Should it be possible to register these decoders or are MS stopping these files registering on Windows versions the files were not originally supplied with?