jkenzie
6th February 2007, 01:10
I don’t know if anyone else has posted a how-to on this or not, but I got tired of installing and uninstalling PowerDVD Ultra.
This is the solution I came up with. I take no responsibility whether it will work for you, but it works on the two systems I tried it on.
First completely clean your system of Powerdvd.
Uninstall the program.
Delete all program folders. (You may need to kill PDVDServ.exe and RichVideo.exe in Processes to do so)
Delete all Cyberlink registry entries
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\CyberLink]
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cyberlink]
Now assuming you have both an HDDVD drive and a BluRay drive installed on your machine. Let’s begin the process.
1. In device manager, disable the HDDVD drive
2. Install PowerDvd Ultra Blu Ray version. Go through the entire process including registration key.
3. Go to processes in task manager and kill PDVDServ.exe
4. Go to C:\Program Files\Cyberlink and rename the PowerDvd folder to PowerDvdBD
5. Delete the desktop shortcut and make a new one from the .exe in the renamed folder. Rename it “BD”
6. Go to device manager and enable you HD drive and disable your BD drive
7. Go though the PowerDvd install process again. It will tell you it needs to uninstall the previous version. Click “O.K.”.
You may get some errors about missing files, just ignore it.
8. Once you have completely gone though the install process, rename the desktop shortcut to “HD”
9. At this point, you should have a working HDDVD copy and a non working Blu Ray copy. We are about to fix that.
10. Go to http://www.softella.com/dsfm/index.en.htm and download DSFMgr.exe
11. Open it and click the MODULE tab so all powerdvd filters are together. It will
Make it easer. You can also slide the tab so you can read the full path.
12. We simply need to re-register the filters in the following folders:
C:\Program Files\CyberLink\PowerDVDBD\AudioFilter
C:\Program Files\CyberLink\PowerDVDBD\NavFilter
C:\Program Files\CyberLink\PowerDVDBD\UPnP
C:\Program Files\CyberLink\PowerDVDBD\VideoFilter
At the bottom of filter manager you will see a button that says “Register new filter”. Click on it and navigate to the first folder in the list. Find any file that ends in .AX and
Double click on it, and then move on to the next. When you are done all the filters in the list should read C:\Program Files\CyberLink\PowerDVDBD.
Both versions of PowerDvd should now be fully operational.
I may have missed something above, so if someone could test this and see if it actually works for someone else.
I also don't know how this workaround with affect real world playback issue's either, we shall see.
This is the solution I came up with. I take no responsibility whether it will work for you, but it works on the two systems I tried it on.
First completely clean your system of Powerdvd.
Uninstall the program.
Delete all program folders. (You may need to kill PDVDServ.exe and RichVideo.exe in Processes to do so)
Delete all Cyberlink registry entries
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\CyberLink]
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cyberlink]
Now assuming you have both an HDDVD drive and a BluRay drive installed on your machine. Let’s begin the process.
1. In device manager, disable the HDDVD drive
2. Install PowerDvd Ultra Blu Ray version. Go through the entire process including registration key.
3. Go to processes in task manager and kill PDVDServ.exe
4. Go to C:\Program Files\Cyberlink and rename the PowerDvd folder to PowerDvdBD
5. Delete the desktop shortcut and make a new one from the .exe in the renamed folder. Rename it “BD”
6. Go to device manager and enable you HD drive and disable your BD drive
7. Go though the PowerDvd install process again. It will tell you it needs to uninstall the previous version. Click “O.K.”.
You may get some errors about missing files, just ignore it.
8. Once you have completely gone though the install process, rename the desktop shortcut to “HD”
9. At this point, you should have a working HDDVD copy and a non working Blu Ray copy. We are about to fix that.
10. Go to http://www.softella.com/dsfm/index.en.htm and download DSFMgr.exe
11. Open it and click the MODULE tab so all powerdvd filters are together. It will
Make it easer. You can also slide the tab so you can read the full path.
12. We simply need to re-register the filters in the following folders:
C:\Program Files\CyberLink\PowerDVDBD\AudioFilter
C:\Program Files\CyberLink\PowerDVDBD\NavFilter
C:\Program Files\CyberLink\PowerDVDBD\UPnP
C:\Program Files\CyberLink\PowerDVDBD\VideoFilter
At the bottom of filter manager you will see a button that says “Register new filter”. Click on it and navigate to the first folder in the list. Find any file that ends in .AX and
Double click on it, and then move on to the next. When you are done all the filters in the list should read C:\Program Files\CyberLink\PowerDVDBD.
Both versions of PowerDvd should now be fully operational.
I may have missed something above, so if someone could test this and see if it actually works for someone else.
I also don't know how this workaround with affect real world playback issue's either, we shall see.