CONCERNING VIRUS DETECTION: I have received a response from the makers of Nod32 (eset.com): "Dear Shark007, Thank you for contacting us. Win32/Packed.Autoit.Gen potentially unwanted application is an optional detection which is not enabled by default. Every user is asked if to turn it on or off ...
Every user is allowed to run your software when they properly adjust detection
(detection of potentially unwanted applications... or they define an exception for the executable)."
Nod32 UPDATE: February 1st, 2010 - eset.com (Nod32) has contacted me regarding this issue due to the high number of user complaints they are receiving. There seems to be some probability that future releases of the Shark007 software will no longer be tagged by eset's detection process. Time will tell.
To UNINSTALL software from Shark007 you MUST use the UNINSTALL button on the Help TAB.
While installing, you must choose the language that matches your operating system. Selecting an improper language will result in a Transforms error about not being able to update a Row. If you find yourself in this situation you will need to use this Microsoft tool to cleanup the registry. After running the tool, re-install the same version you had but this time choose the correct language for your system. WARNING - DO NOT USE THE ABOVE MICROSOFT TOOL ON WINDOWS 7 OPERATING SYSTEMS
If you use Cyberlink's PowerDVD software and have AVI playback issues, run the command
below to disable a codec installed by that program. copy/paste the
appropriate command below into a command prompt window initiated using 'run
as administrator'
on 32bit machines, regsvr32.exe /u /s "%programfiles%\CyberLink\PowerDVD\VideoFilter\DXdec.ax"
on 64bit machines, regsvr32.exe /u /s "%programfiles(x86)%\CyberLink\PowerDVD\VideoFilter\DXdec.ax"
Audio output and Speaker setup
The codec packs contains a
Settings Application to use in conjunction with your
windows media center setup which will enable each user to choose
different splitters and decoders for specific filetypes. The application
will also allow you to choose from 10 different speaker configurations from 'same as
input' and all the way up to full 7.1 channel output.
To use SPDIF output - Go into Control Panel\Sound and make sure
S/PDIF is your default output mode
Next, configure your output modes. follow
Sound\SPDIF\Properties\Advanced\Exclusive Mode
depending on your sound device, the path may be a bit different but similar
to find and CHECK the box [x] for the following 2 items
'allow applications to take exclusive control of this device'
'give exclusive mode applications priority'
Within Media Center; Go to Tasks, General, Windows Media Center Setup,
Setup Your Speakers.
Run that wizard, choose your digital connection type (coax or optical) and
specify your speaker setup.
Then use the settings application to setup pass-through options on the
Audio TAB.
ffdshow Audio bitstreaming Setup :
- On Vista : you will need to enable the MPC audio renderer on the audio tab
and select it as the output device in your player.
- On windows 7 : directsound renderer should work on most bistream formats.
Otherwise use the waveout renderer or MPC renderer
- If you have a xonar : won't work with directsound renderer, the best is to
use the the arcsoft renderer (on a dos window in administrator mode :
regsvr32 (total media path)\codecs\asrenderer.dll). Otherwise try the
waveout or MPC renderer (don't know if they will work)
MPC-HC : you will have to grab a very recent version of MPC-HC from my tools
page.
Are you experiencing choppy or stuttering sound?
Go into Vista's Control Panel and open the Sound applet
Select your output device in the list that appears
NOTE: the default output device is commonly labeled Speakers
Right click on the device and from the context menu click Properties.
Click on the Enhancements TAB.
Then CHECK the box [x] for Disable all enhancements.
Specific playback issues with Vista Media Center
- To playback ASF files in the
Windows players change
the file extension to ASX.
- To playback VOB files in the Windows players change
the file extension to MPG.
Adding files to the Windows Media Player Playlist
On the Help TAB of the 32bit Settings Application is a button to allow you to choose Windows Media Player Filetype Associations. Once you have used this button, you can Enqueue newly associated files to the Windows Media Player Playlist as depicted below. If for some reason this doesn't work for you, go back to the associations button, click No twice, consecutively, then select Yes. No reboot is required.
This
will also work for audio files such as FLAC, APE or musepack.
If you have a troublesome video that so far nothing has worked to allow playback, I suggest you try ffplay. Extract the player onto your desktop and drag n drop your video file onto the player. good-luck.
