The fix for WMP 10 crash using autogk

[ddeen]

I had trouble with Windows Media Player 10 crashing when I would try to play a movie that was encoded with Autogk. Didn't matter if I used Xvid or Divx. The movie would not even start in WMP10, just give me a error msg that it would have to close. In BS Player the movie would play, but not the sound. The same movie encoded with Dr Divx would play fine in either player. So looking in the error information, the cause of the crash seemed to be a file called neaudio.ax, which is a Nero file probably installed when I installed Nero burning rom. club.cdfreaks.com had the following that fixed my problem. Now anything encoded with Autogk works great. This may already be known here but I couldn't find it with a search of the forum.

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Here's an easy way to unregister Nero's DS filters. Copy the following text into Notepad:


regsvr32 /u NDParser.ax
regsvr32 /u NeAudio.ax
regsvr32 /u NeFileSrc.ax
regsvr32 /u NeQTDec.ax
regsvr32 /u NeRender.ax
regsvr32 /u NeVideo.ax


Save the file in your C:\Program Files\Common Files\Ahead\DSFilter folder with a .bat extension. Then double-click the .bat file you made. That will do the trick.
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[fewtch]

Good idea with the .bat file. Another is to put a shortcut to regsvr32 -u in the "SendTo" folder.

Doesn't it affect Nero's functionality to unregister its filters?

BTW, I fixed a bunch of problems recently (Nero Showtime not playing anything, no preview with DVDShrink, GSpot reporting no codecs installed, certain video apps crashing, etc.) by simply re-installing DirectX. Apparently it's pretty easy for those files to get corrupted or replaced with older versions.