Question：I recently purchased a Vista64 Home Premium equipped PC and bought an external tuner (HVR-1950) to record shows for my children. The shows are being recorded as WTV files which work fine on the Vista64 machine; however, on my children's computer the files are not detected. The children's computer is running Vista32 Basic. Please note, I have not installed the TV Pack onto the Vista64 machine. My old computer (Vista32 Home Premium w/ TV Tuner) recorded shows in dvd-ms format and worked flawlessly in the same setup. I'm looking for one of two solutions:
1. Is there a codec package that can be installed onto Vista32 Home Basic such that it can see/play the .wtv files? If not now, when will a Windows Update to Vista be applied to recognize the new file format?
2. Is there a way to have the recording computer (Vista64) MCE record in dvr-ms format?
I know there are 3rd party apps out there that can convert the files (mostly beta), but I'd rather not spend my time converting and deleting things manually.
Just looking for a common solution. Considering I've purchased all three of these machines within 3 months of each other, one would think they could "see" the same file types.
Thanks for your help.
Answer 1：Hi plutod73,
Support and compatibility for wtv files is currently lacking as you have found. One possibility I have run across is that Windows 7 beta appears to have the capability to convert wtv files to dvr-ms and back. You might try installing the beta version of Windows 7 on the kids' pc. It looks like either that or manually converting or waiting for things to catch up with you.
Dave D.
Dave D
Answer 2：Any idea if installing Windows Media Center TV Pack 2008 onto a Windows Basic computer would work? Wasn't sure if the .rar file is just an upgrade to the Windows Media Center, or contains a full install.
Thanks.
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