Sony Living Center Video Decoder Error

Sounds like the driver for the TV Tuner is not installed, or the video and audio drivers may not be installed properly.
Mine was always a bit wonky in XP, works like a charm in Vista or Windows 7 though

Try the Free Decoder addon K-Lite Codec Pack 5.51 posted on FileHippo.com. If not.... the Video Card may have a Driver Update and that should include the Decoder Software for TV or Cable.

Try to use external or internal sound card, if you find it working it means that the sound device of your Sony Vaio is the real problem. This means that you have to use another sound card device to be installed in your Sony PC, because built-in soundcards is connected to the motherboard of the PC so fixing that problem will cost you a lot.

I think this refers to the MPEG decoders required to show TV in media center.
You need to install Power DVD or a stand alone decoder from NVidia or ATI

Hi there thanks for your post

sounds like you pc has either a fault in your tv tuner card or your motherboard has a fault responding try updateing the tv cards software if that dont work u you then knw its faulty

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Tinnish123
Happy Holidays!
well, if you got experience on reformat OS, do so, Go ahead and format and install the Windows Media Center, there could be something missing from the restored past installation.
Wheather or not you see the right drivers, in control panel, is a best way to reformat the system and if you got all the drivers, install them after the OS installation..
good luck

Try those links and let me know if u got help:

You should have an ENX-26 card.

ENX-16 GigaPocket
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=BU4WC6CG

ENX-26 GigaPocket (Not my post)
http://files.filefront.com/GigaPocket+Fi...;/fileinfo.html

ENX-26 MCE only drivers for Arcsoft TotalMedia 3
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=6DTMIR5U

DVGatePlus2.0
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=BLT8HYT6

go to this website and see if you have all updates to you media center. your codecs are kept in the media player bin file let microsoft run a check and see if you need some more downloads. http://update.microsoft.com/microsoftupdate/v6/default.aspx?ln=en-us

Btw, I’m available to help over the phone in case u need at https://www.6ya.com/expert/stephen_171aeeebef53a898

Hi Par37ron,

Select Start>Run (in Windows) and type in the following:

dvdupgrd /detect

This will tell you what DVD decoders are installed on your system. MCE2005
needs a newer decoder than other versions of MCE - try:

http://www.intervideo.com/jsp/WinDVD_Download.jsp
http://www.nvidia.com/object/dvd_decoder.html

if this has previously worked fine, then choices are: 1.) run "system restore" to an earlier date when you know it worked. 2.) re-install windows xp