TP 760XD and the MPEG driver

[harald612]

Hello,

I have a TP 760XD with Windows 98 and I have installed the MPEG driver.

The 'IBM MPEG PCI Bridge' device under DeviceManager->Sound, Video, game controllers has had a yellow 'X' over it. When I go to the properties, it tells me the MMDEVLDR.VXD device loader(s) for this device could not load the device driver (code 2).

Thank you for your help,

Harald

[ozzymud]

Yea, yea... thread necromancy... but this was a google search about it... and I finally added a Thinkpad 760XD to my collection (wanted this one as it is the model NASA approved for use on the International Space Station long ago )

Finally found another hit also @ forum.thinkpads.com...

^^^^^^ from this thread

I figured out what the mystery "PCI Multimedia Video Device" needed for my 760XD in Win98SE. It's the IBM MPEG PCI Bridge.
I downloaded it from the pccbbs Greyghost site.
mptpgw95.exe
mptpgw95.txt

Unfortunately these links were dead... found them here:
mptpgw95.exe
and
mptpgw95.txt

If they somehow fall off google, I can also host them.

The text file has the following steps:

Code: Select all

1. Start Windows 95.

2. Extract the drivers onto the hard disk.

3. Click on Start -> Settings -> Control Panel -> Add New Hardware.

4. Click on Next. When asked Search for your new hardware?, select No.

5. Click on Next and select Sound, video and game controller.

6. Click on Next.

7. Click on Have Disk...

8. Type c:\drivers\w95\mpeg and  click on OK.

9. Select IBM MPEG CD-i/VideoCD (mci) and click on OK and click on Finish.

10. When Windows 95 prompts you to restart the computer, click on No. Repeat step 4 to 9 to install IBM MPEG Files/ISO9660 (mci). 
On step 10, however, select IBM MPEG Files/ISO9660 (mci).

11. When Windows 95 prompts you to restart the computer, click on No. Repeat step 4 to 9 to install IBM MPEG PCI Bridge.
On step 10, however, select IBM MPEG PCI Bridge.

12. If this is the first time to install IBM MPEG PCI Bridge, you must do the following one-time operation. 
Select the following in sequence: Control Panel -> System -> Device Manager -> Other Devices  ->PCI Multimedia Device. 
Select Remove and OK (This procedure removes the device from the unknown class and adds it to Sound, video, and game controllers).

13. Shut down the system and reboot.

As an aside, and to add to stuff needed for the mwave... the driver mentions to get MIDI working you need samples... they are here: http://www.os2site.com/sw/drivers/mwave ... index.html

WIN or OS/2: mwmidi-2.exe, mwmidi-3.exe, mwmidi-4.exe, mwmidi-5.exe, mwmidi-6.exe
WIN disk 1: mwmidiw1.exe
OS/2 disk 1: mwmidio1.exe

All self extracting diskettes, can be extracted with Virtual Floppy Drive to IMG files, then extracted to a single folder with WinImage. Setup runs fine over a network or CD like this. Same goes for most(if not all) IBM disk from exe files.

Anyhoo, old post, but woulda helped me and maybe will help someone else in the future

[Kasm279]

Sorry for necroposting this thread again, but since google couldn't lead me here I thought I'd add this to help future googlers. This also works on the 760ED and will also fix the MMSYSTEM263 This is not a registered MCI device if you're having it in programs that use MPEG compression, such as IBM Video CDI Player.