yes.

the Vista PC will play the dvdfab generic xvid rips OK, in a variety of media players ( zoom, VLC,PowerDVD, when in normal windows mode

they even play ok in windows media player, thoughit pauses to say acquring codec...codec acquired.. first.

the issues is that the dvdfab generic xvid rips just won't play inside of the VISTA media centre interface i.e. they won't play via Video library + remote control interface.

and the point of the thread was to indicate that xvid output from other sources e,g ripped from youtube does work in VMC - so what specifically is non-compliant with how dvdfab creates its generic files ?