Saturday, 4 July 2009

Power Freeze with PowerDVD9 Ultra

Last night I had another play of Amadeus, now that the PC seems to be OK, and it was doing just fine - I left the movie to play while I watched a recording using my Humax HDR... Near to about 2 hours later I checked out the PC and it seems fine - not frozen... so all well and good.

Unfortunately, I right-clicked on the movie playback and tried some options in PowerDVD9 and then it froze! :( The application froze and the PC froze too - just indicating that it must have been PowerDVD9 that froze the PC the first time (and not anything else).

Well as for tonight's happenings... I downloaded the SteamedMP skin and installed it. When I started MP after this install and tuned into the TV, a pop-up appeared complaining about CoreAVC trial missing a serial number! I couldn't dismiss the pop-up and then MP froze! So spent all afternood, finding out how to remove coreAVCdecoder.ax...

Using GraphStudio I tracked down the codec and deleted it and unregistered it using GraphStudio... I had hoped this did the trick - which has stopped MP from freezing but now I can't get BBC HD to work using PowerDVD9's H.264/AVC codec - getting a black screen and then freezing MP! What is going on?!!

It seems like the new PowerDVD9 Ultra edition's codec is affecting the playback of BBC HD.

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