I just installed Windows Media Center 2005 on a shuttle box and everything loaded fine. When I open the Media center itself I get a windows pop up error that says "Your video card or drivers are not compatible with media center". I have searched everywhere for an answer and did not see one. There are people out there posting this problem, but no responses have been given yet. If I close out the error Media center then opens and runs just fine. Is this because I do not have a TV card installed? Need Help, Thanks.
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Windows Media Center 2005 video not compatible error
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MCE requires a video card with at least 64 megs of video ram. If it does not, it will throw the error you are seeing.
You'll also need a capture card that has BDA drivers and encodes MPEG2 in hardware and outputs in that format to the MCE program. If you can't emulate that (and I have huge doubts that you can emulate that) your MCE experience will be quite severely diminished.
-- From the Microsoft Media Center Newsgroups
Author: Jason Tsang - Microsoft MVP
You'll also need a capture card that has BDA drivers and encodes MPEG2 in hardware and outputs in that format to the MCE program. If you can't emulate that (and I have huge doubts that you can emulate that) your MCE experience will be quite severely diminished.
-- From the Microsoft Media Center Newsgroups
Author: Jason Tsang - Microsoft MVP
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