IfoEdit DVDPlay broken

[525/60]

Doggedly did I use DVDAuthorGUI to set up the buttons in 76 of the original 77 still menus for Ladyhawke (I am using AviSynth to increase contrast and color saturation in the video while removing the alternate audio and all subtitles, thus removing the languages menu). Getting all the menus right and not accidentally skipping any necessitated using IfoEdit DVDPlay to preview them. Suddenly the authored DVD files stopped playing in IfoEdit. At first I thought I had messed up the .dva file since I was resorting to editing that file directly to change the order of the buttons and make the button positioning more consistent from menu to menu since it is faster that way. (It would be nice if there were a way to check the global consistency of that file with the touch of one button.) But then I realized that IfoEdit is no longer playing the files it makes with its own authoring program, so the files I am making with DVDAuthorGUI might be good, I just have no way to check them any longer.

VobBlanker sounds like a nice program, but I would rather remove cells I do not need rather than blanking them out. It would be nice if I could use the original buttons in the menus and only change what the buttons point to while reauthoring the DVD instead of having to create all new button highlights for the entire menu. Still, I am done with that process for now and would only like to check the menu one more time before I burn the disc.

I point out what I am doing and why I am doing it only to give context to my problem and avoid people asking me why I am 'doing it the hard way'. My main question is why would DVD Play stop working in IfoEdit and also what are my alternatives if I can't get it working again?

Thanks for your patience.

Stephen

[r0lZ]

Is it an error message displayed by IfoEdit? It might have problems with newly installed codecs.

BTW, you can delete cells and edit the menu buttons commands with PgcEdit.

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@r0lZ

Basically IfoEdit just crashes and the error message, if it is displayed comes from the XP operating system; I believe.

"IfoEdit.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience."

I agree it must be a dll or recently installed codec.

The likely culprits are DVDFAB or more likely DVDAuthorGUI GPL MPEG2 decoder if it does not subsequently uninstall the decoder when I uninstall/re-install DVDAuthorGUI without it.

If it is the GPL MPEG2 decoder, then I need to manually uninstall it and I don't know how. I think the problem did crop up after I clicked on that option in the install program. But then, I really don't know what is causing this

Stephen

[r0lZ]

You can easily uninstall a codec with RegDrop (http://www.addisonsw.com/text/regdrop.zip). Drag/drop the codec dll or ocx file over the RegDrop.exe icon while maintaining the Shift key down.
You can also use the command line REGSVR32 system tool :REGSVR32 /u codec_file.ocx
However, in both cases, you have to know the filename of the codec to uninstall.

There is also a tool to assign a different merit level to a codec, but I forgot its name. The merit system allow you to assign a different priority to each codec. IfoEdit should then automatically use the codec with the higher merit.

[kumi]

There is also a tool to assign a different merit level to a codec, but I forgot its name.
For example Radlight Filter Manager (http://www.free-codecs.com/download/RadLight_Filter_Manager.htm) or AnalogX DXMan (http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/audio/dxman.htm).

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@r0lZ

However, in both cases, you have to know the filename of the codec to uninstall.

Yes well, that's the point, I needed to track down the filename.

I was right, it was the GPLMPEG2Decoder optionally available with the full DVDAuthorGUI install. I finally thought of not clicking on close at the end of the install and read what it installs. So then I typed the following at the command prompt and it fixed it:

regsvr32 /u GplMpgDec.ax

I want to emphasize that I love DVDAuthorGUI (thanks Liquid217) and that this is not a problem with the regular minimal install of DVDAuthorGUI. It only surfaced after I tried the other options in the install just to see if that would improve performance in any way on my XP. It did not.

Now I am vearing into DVD authoring, but I do not want to leave a false impression concerning how I feel about this great software.

Stephen

[r0lZ]

I've also had several problems with IfoEdit after installing some codecs (and in arrticular AVI2DVD.) Seems IfoEdit doesn't support well a system with several codecs to do the same thing.

[525/60]

Well AVI2DVD could be installing the same codec that DVDAuthorGUI installs. AVI2DVD pulls so many programs together for you that it is hard to keep track of them all.

Multiple codecs can co-exist as long as the right merit level is given to each one, as you pointed out.

Stephen