Hey all
I have a weird problem that I need some help with. So first the obligatory details:
Hardware:
Vid Card: HD 4670 (latest drivers)
TV Card: DigitalNow Quattro S-T
CPU: Intel e6600 (not overclocked)
RAM: 4G (4x1G)
Mobo: Asus p5w dh dlx
OS: XP Pro SP3, Vista Ultimate 64 bit SP1, (Ubuntu)
Software:
MediaPortal 1.0 (primary tv app)
PowerDVD 8.0 Ultra
PowerDVD 6
WinDVD 4
DNTV Live! 1.3.3
K-Lite Mega Codec Pack - Gabest, Haali, ffdshow, media player classic, AC3 filter etc.
Twinhan DigitalTV
Background: I just upgraded my video card from a 6600GT to an HD4670. I figured that I might as well try and get hardware accelerated h.264 decoding working now that I actually have a card that can do the job. This lead me to purchase PDVD 8. Here begins my story...
I have a triple booting system but I really only use XP. For this reason I thought I'd try getting HA working in XP first. My first step was to uninstall PDVD 6. I then installed PDVD 8. It took a bit of fiddling, but I eventually got HA going. Initially I had what I think were codec conflict issues that caused my system to restart when changing channels (in MediaPortal). This lead me to uninstall a whole lot of my media software (K-Lite Mega, WinDVD, DigitalTV, and DNTV Live!) that I thought could be potentially conflicting. After cleaning up my registry (deleting all keys with "cyberlink", "intervideo", "dntv", "windvd", "powerdvd", "klite") and reinstalling PDVD 8 everything seemed to be okay. I moved on to Vista...
Thinking that I would encounter the same problems as in XP, I uninstalled the same programs as before and did a registry clean first. I then installed PDVD 8 and went to configure MediaPortal to use the new codec. This is where I hit my snag - MediaPortal lists the PDVD 8 codecs in the MPEG 2 and Audio fields (MediaPortal config, Television tab/screen), but it doesn't list the PDVD codec in the H.264 field.
I tried reinstalling both MediaPortal and PDVD multiple times and went through the registry again to make certain that there were no old entries that I had missed in the first clean up. No change - still no cyberlink codec in the h.264 codec field. I tried manually using regsvr to register the cl264dec.ax file but this also failed to make any difference.
This is the point I'm at now. Can anyone suggest a solution?
Regards
mm1352000