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Old 20th November 2005, 05:44   #3  |  Link
sapient
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I have the exact same problem.
I will try to explain it better, hoping someone will provide a solution.
I installed HaaliMediaSplitter and checked avi suppurt during installation.
So all avi files used HaaliMediaSplitter to play.
When I unistalled the filter, I couldn't play avi files any more.
The question is, how can we re-register the default avi splitter, so we can view avi files again, withOUT re-installing the haali splitter.

edit:After a LOT of searching around in the registry I discovered several things about the HaaliMediaSplitter:
During installation it moves the .avi media type to a new category ( in the rgisty's mediatype section) that uses itself as the source filter.
After uninstallation this category is not removed nor is .avi returned to its default group. So even though quartz.dll is registered as a file source filter, avi is no longer set to open with it. So re-registering quatz.dll does not help.
Additionally, Haalisplitter never actually unregisters itself.
All in all the unistallation routine is extremely inadequate.
In order to restore my system I had to import the mediatype section of the registry from another computer.

Last edited by sapient; 20th November 2005 at 07:34.
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