How can I get back the Radeon MPEG-2 decoder?

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I installed Nero 6, and now Windows Media Player crashes when I try to
play a DVD. Running the command line "dvdupgrd.exe /detect" is
supposed to show what MPEG-2 codec WMP is using, and it says "Ahead
Software NeMPG.ax". Before I installed Nero it was using the ATI
Radeon codec. I can't find any way to get back to the ATI codec. I've
tried re-installing the ATI software. Any ideas?
 
FelixC said:
I installed Nero 6, and now Windows Media Player crashes when I try to
play a DVD. Running the command line "dvdupgrd.exe /detect" is
supposed to show what MPEG-2 codec WMP is using, and it says "Ahead
Software NeMPG.ax". Before I installed Nero it was using the ATI
Radeon codec. I can't find any way to get back to the ATI codec. I've
tried re-installing the ATI software. Any ideas?
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I'm having a similar problem: I just installed my AIW 9600, and while the
ATI DVD player works fine, I have to turn off hardware acceleration to get
CyberLink PowerDVD to work, and WMP is playing scratchy sound and showing no
video, no matter where I set performance in that. DVDUPGRD /DETECT reports
that "CLVsd.ax" from CyberLink, version 3.5.0.2329 is the codec of record.
(I have a newer version of PowerDVD, I should uninstall this and install
that and see if it helps either situation.)

So if you hear something, or have an idea for me, I'm listening too! :)
 
Chris Lemon said:
(I have a newer
version of PowerDVD, I should uninstall this and install that and see
if it helps either situation.)
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Postscript: It wasn't a newer version. So I still have codec version
3.5.0.2329 installed, and Media Player is still not making a picture. (The
sound seems to be working, tho...no, some cracklies in the sound.)
InterActual Player and RealOne Player are doing the same thing, which is no
surprise, they're gonna use the DirectShow codec as well.

So how do we get the ATI codec in there as the codec of record so all of our
players work? Or do we?
 
Chris Lemon said:
Postscript: It wasn't a newer version. So I still have codec version
3.5.0.2329 installed, and Media Player is still not making a picture.
(The sound seems to be working, tho...no, some cracklies in the
sound.) InterActual Player and RealOne Player are doing the same
thing, which is no surprise, they're gonna use the DirectShow codec
as well.

So how do we get the ATI codec in there as the codec of record so all
of our players work? Or do we?
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MORE Postscript: Installed Version 5 of PowerDVD, my codec is now CLVSD.ax
version 5.0.0.609. PowerDVD now works with Video Accelleration turned on,
but WMP, InterActual, and RealOne still show no video and crackle with the
audio.

Previous questions still apply. :)
 
Chris said:
MORE Postscript: Installed Version 5 of PowerDVD, my codec is now CLVSD.ax
version 5.0.0.609. PowerDVD now works with Video Accelleration turned on,
but WMP, InterActual, and RealOne still show no video and crackle with the
audio.
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My ATI DVD player works again (long saga - see below). There's no way
to tell what codec it's using.

WMP still crashes at the first title menu on any DVD I try, although I
can bypass it and go straight into playing the movie. The error report
shows the WMP crash is in the Nero codec. But Nero Showtime, which I
presume uses the same codec, works fine. Looks like an incompatibility
between the Nero MPEG-2 codec and WMP. Too bad there's no way to fix
WMP to use the ATI codec, but I guess I can just use the ATI player. I
have PowerDVD too, but I haven't tried installing it - that's one too
many.

Typical silly ATI saga:

I was using WMP 8. Microsoft's crash error report update check
suggested upgrading to WMP 9, so I did. No effect - on the WMP crash,
at least. But now my ATI player stopped responding to any controls
once it started to play, forcing an End Task to kill it every time.

I tried Repairing and then re-installing ATI's software from CD. No
effect.

So I went to ATI's site, downloaded new versions of *everything*, and
re-installed. That fixed the unresponsive player problem. But the TV
functions on my All-In-Wonder card disappeared.

So I removed *everything* from ATI, and re-installed it all from
scratch. That brought back the TV functions. Of course I had to redo
all my custom display settings. (And the ATI software installation
steals all the media file extensions without asking - for shame, ATI!)

So I think I'll leave well enough alone. I can play DVDs with the ATI
player, whatever codec it's using. WMP is an awful program anyway.

I see that nothing has improved with ATI's software release QA in the
last decade. Of course ATI has no interest in bug reports - they'd be
flooded, and their drivers change too fast to make it meaningful
anyway. They have time-limited telephone tech support for retail
products like mine, but I can just imagine the quality! ("Are you sure
the board is plugged in? Well, why don't you try re-installing
Windows?")
 
FelixC said:
So I went to ATI's site, downloaded new versions of *everything*, and
re-installed. That fixed the unresponsive player problem. But the TV
functions on my All-In-Wonder card disappeared.
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Started up Video In instead, didn't it?

I had this same problem today. It's something funky with MMC 8.8. I
uninstalled that, put in 8.7, and everything was fine.
So I think I'll leave well enough alone. I can play DVDs with the ATI
player, whatever codec it's using. WMP is an awful program anyway.
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Yeah. It's curious, though, and I wanna know how to fix it. :)
They have time-limited telephone tech support for retail
products like mine, but I can just imagine the quality! ("Are you sure
the board is plugged in? Well, why don't you try re-installing
Windows?")
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It had better be superior to their email...the response I got from them on
another problem I had wasn't worth the time I took to write the note. Wasn't
even RELATED to my issue. Granted, this is the busy time of year for them,
but I still expect my email to at least be read and considered instead of
being directed to a FAQ that I specifically told them I'd already consulted.
 
Chris Lemon said:
Started up Video In instead, didn't it?
Right.

I had this same problem today. It's something funky with MMC 8.8. I
uninstalled that, put in 8.7, and everything was fine.
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I've got it working and stable with MMC 8.8 now, although it did lose
its mind one more time a day later, complaining that the driver wasn't
installed properly after it had already been rebooted successfully a
couple of times. I re-installed just the same driver one more time,
and it's been ok since then.
 
FelixC said:
I've got it working and stable with MMC 8.8 now, although it did lose
its mind one more time a day later, complaining that the driver wasn't
installed properly after it had already been rebooted successfully a
couple of times. I re-installed just the same driver one more time,
and it's been ok since then.
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Crazy. What did you do, reinstall the Catalyst drivers again?
 
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