Video Error - Files needed to display video are missing or corrupt

I have had this error message before and have always been able to fix the
problem by either rebooting my computer or just restarting media center. At
worst case, I've done a system restore to an earlier date and all was well.

Yesterday I had an error message that a recording had failed. I opened the
program to find out why and got this error message....files needed to display
video are missing or corrupt. I did all of the above and nothing fixed the
problem. I can see the programming guide and the really strange thing is, I
can play previously recorded programs. I can't record anything new and I
can't watch live TV or play videos that are on my hard drive from other
sources.

I have a 3 year old HP Pavilion laptop with an external PVR that came with
this system. It has been working like a champ for several months now. I
contacted HP support and they wanted to tell me my HDTV receiver is bad. I
tested it with a video input device and there are no problems with it at all.
Then they want me to completely uninstall my XP Media Center and restart
over with a new installation. I'm not getting warm fuzzies here. I have a
case number, but told them I needed to back up my files and have some time to
trouble shoot this. I had a professor from our local college, who teaches
networking/programing look at it and he is for a loss as to what is wrong.
He also feels that having to uninstall seems, rather than trying to fix the
problem, seems like a last, not first resort.

If anyone has had this problem and knows a better way to approach this, I'd
really appreciate some help here. This is a 2003 version and has never been
upgraded to the later editions of Media Center because HP recommended I not
do that.

Based on your symptoms your problem is related to your TV Tuner/Video
capture card or its MCE drivers since apparently MCE it can not receive
anything new from the card. However that should not cause the problem you
are also having with other video files.

It is strange that HP recommended that you never upgrade you system to XP
SP2 and the upgrade to MCE2004 from MCE2003 that automatically comes with it

"files needed to display video are missing or corrupt"

I've recieved that error with a low signal level to the ATSC tuner. Check
your signal strenth to rule it out.

I'm having a similar problem which I think is linked to a poor signal.
Digital terrestrial tv is prone to signal loss in poor weather, the wind must
blow the wee pictures away from my arial! Not found a work around although a
signal booster should do the trick. Instead of rebooting when this happens
all I do is change the channel, and then change back to the one I was
watching, a pain but it works.

It would appear that you are located across the Pond, where you have
different obstacles to receiving digital signals then in the US. Unless I've
been doing something that involved rotating the antenna and not put it back
to the proper heading my reception is actually set it and forget it, in all
sorts of weather.

From what I've read you have to follow much tighter rules for antennas,
cabling and amps to have trouble free reception.

I have had the same errors several times. About 18 months ago the only fix
was to save my data and then reinstall XP, all the programs, and my saved
data. I worked with a Microsoft gentlemen (in Nova Scosa for about a week
free of charge) and successfully reinstalled everthing. About 4-6 months ago
it happened again (eshell exception, video files are missing or corrupt). I
have a Gateway and they told me back then Microsoft was working on a fix, but
nothing was ready. I need to know if Microsoft has a fix for this now
without all the exhausting and time consuming work of reinstalling
everything. They had referred me to one possible fix, but it didn't work
either. We have dish and the DishDVR which is wonderful, so I haven't tried
very hard to fix this problem because our DishDVR does everthing and more
than the medial center TV did. My one big loss is that we had installed a
boston 5 piece sound system through the Computer and now my TV does not play
surround sound. My DVDs through the computer and Media Center play fine and
I then have surround sound. So, if anyone knows of a simple fix other then
full reinstall, I would appreciate know. Thanks so much

[said ali]

i treid on this for months. till i found this. try this and it might work...

Reinstalling and updating the TV tuner driver

Click Start , All Programs , hewlett-packard , hp pavilion PC tools , and then hp application recovery .


Select Driver Installation , and click Next .

Select the name of the TV tuner used on the computer, usually eMuzed TV Tuner or Hauppauge .

Click Install , and then click OK after the driver has finished installing.

Click Quit to close the HP Application Recovery program and restart the computer.