New Dell MediaDirect

[fracturex]

yeah, I just experienced that myself. thought I could just put my vista image back to the cdrive that was formatted by media direct 3. vista won't boot until you do a repair from the installation dvd. but when you are in vista and try to continue the md3 installation it tells you that the hd has not been prepared. with a partition manager everything looks perfect though. this has to do with the partition table again. vista puts itself in first position and it should be in second or some other order. this was the case with xp and md2 after formatting a hd. I am going to play with a parition table editor a little before I start from scratch and go the upgrade route from xp. I don't like that.
there are probably other ways also, unpacking the md3 files and manually copying them to the md3 partition, then either use a bootmanager or other trick to boot either vista or md3.

[Hiker]

I thought about trying to get the new disk, but unless it's pre-installed, is MD3 really worth the hassle? Seems to me it's just as easy to open XP as MD to get to office. Same goes for music, pictures and videos for that matter...

[XSportSeeker]

Sorry if I'm posting this on the wrong thread, but Dell's homepage is failing me to give accurate information on MediaDirect.

I'm planning on either buying a Sony Vaio VGN-SZ440 or a Dell XPS M1210. MediaDirect may just be the thing to get me to decide which.

Questions:
1. Is MediaDirect able to read from: Memory Stick/SD/etc, HDD windows partition and CD/DVDs?
2. Can you play DVDs using MediaDirect?
3. Which codecs are supported?
4. Is there a considerable difference in power saving, or does it sucks as much power as if you were running the notebook on normal windows operations?

Guess that's it. I was planning on buying a portable DVD player with LCD to watch movies while traveling, but if MediaDirect works like I think it does, I won't need too.

[fritz40]

10 Days ago i received my new M1210. Until this post came out i did not even opened MD . Yesterday i took a look and i saw that i have MD3 installed.
It has instant office included. Yes you can do everything with it without booting.Yes you can read from other devices but i did not saw anywhere a file transfer option .Maybe i must do an update . There is an update option through xp . The partition is 2 GB on mine .

[pyrofrag]

Hello everybody

It has been one week i am trying to install MD.

I have XPS M1210 first generation (Core duo T2500, 1Go Ram, Nvidia Go7400 256 Mo, Bios A07).

I install first unsuccesfully MD 2.0 with my dell-windows XP Media Center but when i press media direct button it opens media center even if i have installed DMX software (configurated for launching firefox).

And now I have installed Windows XP SP2 with media Direct 3.0:
1st step Media direct (Dos mode option 1)
2nd step Windows and drivers
3rd step Media Direct (widows mode)

Then I split my windows partition (one for my data and the other for my os) and it is working perfectly.
My media Direct button is now launching firefox when I press it

I am trying to solve divx problem with media direct

[gohanssjn]

Hello everybody

It has been one week i am trying to install MD.

I have XPS M1210 first generation (Core duo T2500, 1Go Ram, Nvidia Go7400 256 Mo, Bios A07).

I install first unsuccesfully MD 2.0 with my dell-windows XP Media Center but when i press media direct button it opens media center even if i have installed DMX software (configurated for launching firefox).

And now I have installed Windows XP SP2 with media Direct 3.0:
1st step Media direct (Dos mode option 1)
2nd step Windows and drivers
3rd step Media Direct (widows mode)

Then I split my windows partition (one for my data and the other for my os) and it is working perfectly.
My media Direct button is now launching firefox when I press it

I am trying to solve divx problem with media direct

What problem are you having? I use divx with it all tihe time.

Let me quess...you got it installed but it tears and looks blocky???

[pyrofrag]

Yes it is exactly my problem and i install my codec by using taskmanager trick....

HOw are you doing ??

[pyrofrag]

In fact it is not the same i have only a black screen and it is not playing my divx..

[gohanssjn]

Just realized you posted you installed the correct way.
Try this:

Start a MediaDirect boot with the MD button.
Once it is booted, shutdown the laptop by holding down the MD button, NOT by choosing exit.

What this does is force shut the OS thereby causing it NOT to hibernate. You want this.

Boot MediaDirect again. it will be like the first time you started it, and will take longer than usual. What it is doing is integrating the codec like a restart of Windows would do.

Then it should work.

As a side note, I can play Divx fine, but did not use a Divx installer. I installed instead the K-lite codec pack instead. This lets me play virtually any file from within MD.

[pyrofrag]

I install them with satsuki codec installation per haps it is my mistgake but where i must put my codec???