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RB
21st November 2002, 21:14
Hi,

as you may already know, Adaptec released new ASPI drivers for Win98/ME/NT/2000/XP on 10/29/02 at
http://download.adaptec.com/software_pc/aspi/aspi_v472a2.exe. But you'll also quickly notice that these drivers won't work with DVD2SVCD and others (namely VCDEasy/CDRDAO) in W2K/XP if you are using an IDE DVD-ROM/CD-Writer.

However, this can easily be fixed by adding a registry value. You need to create a REG_MULTI_SZ (this is important, not REG_SZ!)value named "ExcludeMiniports" (without the quotes) in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Aspi32\Parameters (create the Parameters subkey if it isn't there). You must not enter any value data, just create the value and leave it blank. Reboot and DVD2SVCD should no longer hang/crash when you click on the disk button on the Conversion tab.

markrb
22nd November 2002, 05:54
I have that version of the Aspi driver and have no issue with my DVD ROM drive and DVD2SVCD, but VCDEasy does not see the Aspi drivers as valid. I will give this a shot.

Thanks for the heads up.

Mark

RB
22nd November 2002, 08:00
Interesting. I was using them in XP with IDE DVD-ROM and burner and DVD2SVCD would hang at the "Analyzing movie" window and VCDEasy didn't recognize any drives. This registry setting solved it all. maybe also OS dependent.

Note, VCDEasy will still see these ASPI drivers as "invalid" but you can manually check "Enable CDRDAO integration" on the Settings page and there you go.