Re: Media Player 11 corruption?

Dear MSFT:
http://www.hdtvtunerinfo.com/vistahdtvinstall.html
There are two separate issues here that you are confusing. The Adobe
drivers32 was intended to solve a problem with the sound in their Flash
player. I stated that clearly.
The second is Media Player's inability to play many supported file formats
either of "Not Registered Class" error or any other generic error message.
This forum is to address all Media Player's "corruptions" and errors.
I have shared my experience with addressing some of its endless errors,
including MPEG formats and decoders.
I have identified where Media Player gets its entry for the preferred MPEG
decoder, which is from Media Center.
Furthermore, TV decoding is another fundemental feature of Media Center
which can be assigned independently from the system general MPEG decoder.
Media Player gets its designated decoder from this key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Media
Center\Decoder
and Media Center can be assigned an independent MPEG decoder in this key:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Media
Center\Service\Video]
"UsePeakModeVideoEncoderSettings"=dword:00000001
"AudioOutputFormat"="{696E1D33-548F-4036-825F-7026C60011BD}"
"PreferredMPEG2VideoDecoder"="{37A4D808-E76C-11D2-935C-00A024E52661}"

That is all what I wanted to share. The above two keys can, and should have
independent decoders in my opinion.
The system functions perfectly.
Thanks

Zack, PE
San Francisco


"zachd [MSFT]" wrote:


"Zack" <Zack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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The data for drivers32 is posted on Adobe website.

After you referring to the random forums post by Birdynumnum? That
definitely doesn't appear to have any coherent explanation of what it's
supposed to be doing: it's just a random suggestion for things to add to
your registry. This would explain why it doesn't make any sense.

The birdy reference is all I saw in a quick Internet search. If there's
some other URL you're referring to, it'd be helpful to know what the actual
URL is.

I am satisfied and pleased with the performance of my system. If you were
interested in solving problems, you would have provided meaningful
information to everyone a long time ago.

I'm not sure what problem you're referring to that I don't help out with.
As both a hobby on my personal time and in my career I make a lot of
contributions to helping stabilize the computer world. These contributions
are generally company-agnostic: I've done work with and for most major
companies at some point. You can definitely insult me in a variety of ways,
but depicting me as uninterested in solving problems would be an odd choice.
Especially contextually. I thought your comments were of interest because
if you had dealt with XXX within the support chain you probably would have
run through the XXX tool I made in my free time last month that would have
been very applicable to the symptoms as you described them. But you made no
mention of that, so -- my curiousity was piqued.

Your thought process is typical of a failed technician. The system works
as
I posted.

I don't really know what 'failed technician' means contextually. Imagine
that you solve your health problem through a drug cocktail. A doctor might
note that you don't really need all of that junk and points out that you
only need XXX. That's what I'm doing here.

I am very extremely aware that not everybody would develop problems based
upon the information you provided. That's because they're bogus unhelpful
registry entries on most systems. And for those systems where this would be
bad, I work with others within multimedia to try to defang those third party
timebombs. The biggest nastiness those entries would have created is
generally defanged by Service Pack 1 - but that would still leave older
users in horrible untenable states.

And hey, I'm your friend here. =) I merely helped created chunks of what
you're dealing with, helped solve a variety of interesting problems in this
area, and work with teams on better problem-solving in this arena. I think
it would be unethical of me *not* to point out that those entries are bogus.

But truthfully, anybody who understands what those registry entries could do
could have told you that. If you want to doubt me, I would encourage you to
have anyone else inspect them. =)

Regards,
-Zach
--
Speaking for myself only.
See http://zachd.com/pss/pss.html for some helpful WMP info.
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.


"zachd [MSFT]" wrote:


"Zack" <Zack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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The Adobe drivers32 was a solution for solving no sound in Flash
player.
If
it has "dangerous" enteries in two keys, please advice to remove them.

Where specifically and exactly did this data come from? It is without
question bad. I would very much appreciate the opportunity to help
correct
and eliminate noxiously bad information.

Plus, hey, you're dealing with MPEG filters. Editing the drivers32 key
for
an MPEG problem is generally nonsensical.

The solution was deduced from a closely related problem addressed by a
person who was on Microsoft's evaluation team of Vista RC1 and RC2,
just I
was.

I don't know if you're indicating that that person was on the public
beta,
the private beta, or works at Microsoft. Regardless, that data is pretty
bogus. Oftentimes when people strive for solutions they pull in
unrelated
or bad data along the way. This is both. =\

Thanks,
-Zach
--
Speaking for myself only.
See http://zachd.com/pss/pss.html for some helpful WMP info.
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
rights.


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