Re: Is there a safe way to purge or initialize WMP Registry attrib


Given what you described, if a DirectX 9c install doesn't help and
DxDiag.exe doesn't report any errors, I would probably suggest an OS
reinstall. You can also try:
rundll32 advpack.dll LaunchINFSection
%windir%\inf\mplayer2.inf,InstallWMP64.Reg
, but I don't know if that would do much for you.

-Z
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"gls_1959" <gls1959@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Ok, removing the NVidia codecs fixed the crash error problem
but only to be replaced with a generic C00D11CD error. No
improvement in any of the other files though which still failed
with C00D1199. I also tried the waveOut fix with no luck. BTW,
I downloaded QuickTime 7.1 and all these files play fine that app.
Assuming this is still a DirectShow problem, how else can I
diagnose it?


"zachd [ms]" wrote:


Heh - yep, exactly. If you take NVTRPDemux out of the chain / uninstall
that, I'd imagine things would work much better.

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"gls_1959" <gls1959@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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** After running and getting an error with mpa files in WMP 10
Faulting application wmplayer.exe, version 10.0.0.3803, faulting module
nvtrpdemux.ax, version 4020.185.0.0, fault address 0x000013f4.

** running and getting an error with Media Player 5.1 with mpa and mp3
Faulting application mplay32.exe, version 5.1.2600.2180, faulting
module
nvtrpdemux.ax, version 4020.185.0.0, fault address 0x000013f4.

Event Viewer shows for both:
Category None
Company Name MS
Date 2/1/2006
Event ID 1000
File Name faultrep.dll
File Version 5.1.2600.2180
Product Name MS Windows Operating...............
Product Version 5.1.2600.2180
Source Application Error
Time 7:02:31 PM
Tpye Error

I checked on this .ax file and its located in
c:\Progam Files\NVIDIA Corporation\ForceWare\nStant Media\Codecs

I'm guessing this file is corrupted and causing havoc. I probably
downloaded at some point the the NVidia MPEG-2 decoder stuff.


"zachd [ms]" wrote:


Yeah, that's easy to narrow down - DirectShow is broken on your
machine.
You could have killed/deleted WMP files until the comes come home and
never
ever have touched the DirectShow code you actually cared about. =)

On the "shuts down WMP" problem - does that actually crash the player
and
give you the chance to send a crash report?

First option- does switching to use waveOut fix this?
http://zachd.com/pss/pss.html#dsound
That's a quick out here, but a pretty good one.

Does dxdiag.exe report any problems?

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"gls_1959" <gls1959@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thanks Zachd. so I ran through a bunch of media players using MS
supported media file types list downloaded locally on at this link:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q316992

Here's what I got:

** Windows Media Player 10 **
Plays OK = asf, mp3
Fails C00D1199 = rmi, aif, aifc, aiff, au, snd, wav, midi
Errors and shuts down WMP = mpa
Plays video but no audio = avi, m1v, mpe, mpeg, mpg

** Media Player 5.1 (mplay32) **
Play OK = rmi, avi, wav
Problems initializing MCI = aif, aifc, aiff, au, asf, snd, wma
Plays video but no audio = wmv, m1v, mpe, mpeg, mpg
Throws error = mpa, mp3

** Media Player 6.4 (mplayer2) **
Error 80040218 = rmi, midi
Error 80040200 = aif, aifc, aiff, au, asf, snd, wav, wma,
Plays video but error 80040200 = avi, wmv, m1v, mpe, mpeg, mpg,
fails no approp decompressor = mpa, mp3

** Sound Record 5.1 (sndrec32.exe)
Play OK = wav
not a wave file = all others

** Media Player Classic / 6.4.8.7 **
Fails Midi Parser:Out = rmi, midi
Fails audio switcher:Out = aif, aifc, aiff, au, asf, snd, wav, mpa,
mp3
Plays video no audio = avi, wma, wma, m1v, mpe, mpg, mpeg

** MCE 2005 Movies
Plays video no audio = avi

** MCE 2005 Music
Play OK = mp3

******************************************
As you can see its not 100% broken but close to it. Can you spot a
root
cause
from these failures? BTW, my mobo's AC'97 does have the latest
Realtek
sound
drivers.

thanks in advance for your help


"zachd [ms]" wrote:


Ouch.

There's many layers here of absolutely Not Good things that have
happened
to
your system.

* Manually uninstalling WMP10 on MCE:
Don't do that, that will leave you in a potentially unrecoverable
state.
Your system should have had newer files that you will not be able
to
get
from anywhere else.
* Installing "various codec packages":
Don't do that, that will leave you in a potentially unrecoverable
state.
It's also redundant and unnecessary, since codecs are best
installed
one
at
a time on an as-needed basis.
* Deleting WMP's registry
Don't do that, that will leave you in a potentially unrecoverable
state.
It
99% wouldn't touch the problem anyways, since the problem is more
likely
a
system sound card setting than anything native to the WMP registry
hive.

We're trending here. Whoever told you any of those things were
viable:
don't listen to them. They are providing you with not only bad but
fairly
incompetent advice.

Let's totally ignore all that. Nobody has any idea what state your
system
is in. You had one problem, and all the steps you've mentioned so
far
will
very sadly have probably made the problem worse. Thankfully it
sounds
like
you haven't stomped on the registry yet. If the player is still
running
at
all, those results are what you're interested in. You've been
ill-advised
to fix things by deleting them... you now need to stop that. The
current
errors you're encountering are what you care about. You're not
going
to
be
able to fix those by uninstall/deleting.

So:
What happens when you try to play audio? Is sndrec32.exe or
mplay32.exe
able to produce audio? Read: is it just WMP that's having audio
problems?

-Zach
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"gls_1959" <gls1959@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I've had ongoing issues with WMP 10 within MCE. Even with
basic audio files which WMP claims to have codec support for,
they just don't play or the audio portion does not come out. At
this point the only files I can reliably play are ASF, MP3, WMA
and WMV file types. Everything else gets C00D1199 or no sound.
I have uninstalled and re-installed WMP a couple times, tried
various
codec packages but still something is disconnected.

My question is, how can I initialize the MediaPlayer Registry
attributes to a known good starting point. Even after
uninstalling
the app, the registry data is still there. If I delete the
MediaPlayer
registry directories under under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE and
HKEY_CURRENT_USER will they safely return when I re-install
WMP 10? A system "restore" will not help me here since this
is a brand new MCE OS install in which WMP 10 has never
been fully functional.











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