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Enabling Avivo codec in Vista Media center

After running the Cyberlink Codec on Vista media center to avoid a problem where I got a green screen in HDTV playback, I noticed that it doesn’t seem to handle deinterlacing very well at all.

The problem was getting quite annoying so I set about to see whether it was possible to use the ATI Avivo codec with Vista media center.

The issue had been that it had not appeared in as an option when using the "Vista Media Center Decoder Utility" (mentioned in the previous post).

After looking around on the net I stumbled across a tool distributed by Microsoft that could apparently resolve this issue.

It can be found HERE

Even though the tool is made to run on XP, it seemed to run fine on Vista x86.

With this tool you can then select the ATi codec as default (ignore the warnings), which then allows it to be selected from within the Vista Media Center Decoder Utility. Happy days.

Making use of this also gives the advantage of making use of the built in hardware accelerated decoding that the X1250 can provide.