Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 10:12:36 +0100
From: "Philip G Spencer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: DVD/Margi Problems
I've just got a new Margi DVD-to-Go card to go with my Freecom Traveller DVD-ROM
for my L100. Initially, I couldn't get any sound out, but installing L110
drivers fixed this.
(I assume L100 and L110 use the same sound hardware). Video play was perfect,
though
the sound was fairly poor quality. Anyway I wanted to try player software that
was more
fully featured. First I tried PowerDVD, but I couldn't get it to recognise the
Margi code
so it tried to do software decoding. Next I tried WinDVD. Again it wouldn't
recognise the
Margi card. However shortly after starting it, WinDVD crashed. After a reboot
windows
started acting strangely with 1-2s freezes every 10-15s. I uninstalled WinDVD
(leaving
the shared DLLs in place, but foolishly not making a note of what they are). Now
windows
recognises the PCMCIA card (in the card app in the icon tray), but the DVD-ROM
doesn't
show up in Explorer. The original (working) Margi player software now hangs the
machine.
I've tried reinstalling the DVD-ROM drivers with no luck. I assume WinDVD
modified
some Windows CD/DVD-ROM drivers and that's screwing up my system. Has anyone
else had this problem? Any advice about cleaning WinDVD out of my system?
Does anyone know what junk WinDVD has left behind on my hard drive (especially
those shared files I kept). The windows 98 (1st edition) tool that restores
system files
thinks that just about all the windows files have changed since the initial
install, so
that's not much help without knowing what files to restore. Any ideas? Please? I
really
don't want to do a full Windows reinstallation (I just did that about a month
ago and it
took me ages to get everything working OK).
I get digest postings and I'm going away for a few days (wanted to take my L100
to
watch a few films), so if anyone has any advice or answers to they please send
mail
to me personnaly as well as the list.
Cheers,
Phil Spencer.
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