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| rjisinspired |
| Posted: Aug 25 2010, 08:19 PM |
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I'm in the process of removing DivX Plus and after clicking the next button all I get is a freeze. I'm using Revouninstaller to try to get rid of DivX and am failing.
Anybody have any advice on getting rid of DivX? I'm willing to do this the manual way if this is the only way of doing it. |
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| rjisinspired |
| Posted: Aug 25 2010, 08:23 PM |
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I'm seeing I'm not the only one unable to uninstall this software. Seems like loads of people are in the same fix and there really isn't a solution that I have found yet.
There is no way that I have found to keep DivX from hogging priority over my players even if I set them to block DivX, my videos end up black and I can't use another renderer to view my videos.
Oh boy. |
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| dloneranger |
| Posted: Aug 25 2010, 08:31 PM |
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You could try changing it's directshow merit with something like
http://www.videohelp.com/tools/RadLight_Filter_Manager
Reinstalling xvid or ffdshow should put them back in charge
In xvid you'll need the 'generic mpeg4' ticked
In ffdshow, you'll need it' set to decode divx (don't forget that there's 2 different config editors for ffdshow -> directshow and vfw)
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| rjisinspired |
| Posted: Aug 25 2010, 08:40 PM |
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I think I'm screwing up things. Do I have to set the merit to all '0's? According to all DS filters they are set on MERIT-DO-NOT-USE.
I did install the 08112010 of FFDshow a few hours ago and that didn't do anything, nor did a reinstall of Xvid.
I really need to get DivX off my system. |
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| rjisinspired |
| Posted: Aug 25 2010, 08:44 PM |
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I was finally able to set MPC with it's own internal decoder and by just setting merit values down and blocking each and everything saying "DivX"
Their uninstaller I think has a bug in it. |
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| dloneranger |
| Posted: Aug 25 2010, 08:49 PM |
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Have you thought about reinstalling windows lately?
You seem to have a lot of very odd problems!!!
The merits are not normally set to do-not-use
eg my divx filter is merit-normal
You could try unregistering it at the cmdline
Open a cmd window
Assuming your divxdec.ax file is at C:\Program Files\DivX\DivX Codec\DivXDec.ax
Type this into the cmdline (or copy/paste)
regsvr32 /u "C:\Program Files\DivX\DivX Codec\DivXDec.ax"
You should get a message saying it's been unregistered
If the file isn't there, you'll have to find it and change the file location for the line above
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| dloneranger |
| Posted: Aug 25 2010, 08:55 PM |
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To get rid of the vfw files you'd need to a bit of registry hacking
You'd need to go to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\drivers.desc
look for a divx entry
make a note of the dll name on the left for the divx entry and delete that entry
Then go to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Drivers32
look for the dll name that you made a note of, and delete that entry
(You might want to export those 2 keys before you delete them, just in case)
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| rjisinspired |
| Posted: Aug 25 2010, 09:30 PM |
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I'll try what you posted a little later on. Have a bit of a headache right now.
I don't have an XP image which would had been more ideal and my XP disk isn't available to me at this time. I'm also not up to reinstalling XP because of having to put everything back up and that can take a long time and it's so much of a hassle. So much that needs backing up also
Sometimes I wish I never heard of a computer. |
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| dloneranger |
| Posted: Aug 25 2010, 10:13 PM |
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Grin - yup I'm with you on that
I've been building/fixing/messing-about-with-them for the last 30 years
Sometimes I wish I'd picked a different hobby alright
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| rjisinspired |
| Posted: Aug 26 2010, 06:58 AM |
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I haven't done what you suggested yet since I'm not being bothered by DivX anymore but I will save this page for later when I do get back to it.
That updater always throws an error when the system reboots. I'm going to disable that service, rrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
That DivX really takes a hold of things. It likes me so much that it insists on showing it's watermark even though I had disabled that not long ago in the DivX control panel.
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| mayhem |
| Posted: Aug 27 2010, 12:43 PM |
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Yeah. Its a piece of crap. I think I was using an earlier version than you're having
trouble with, but ultimately to get it to stop hogging playback I had to do the following,
- Run regedit.exe, goto HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\DivXNetworks\DivX4Windows
in the right-hand pane look for entries like ASP7xInColorFormats, ASP7xOutColorFormats,
and AVC7xInColorFormats, this is where the thing decides which FourCC codes its going to
shanghai I'm pretty sure, I clicked those keys and selected Modify, and then used the cursor
to move through the list and deleted the ones I didn't want it taking, notably all the
+div3 +divx +dx50, etc. Also disable the DivxVersionChecker service, or firewall block
it connecting to the internet.
Also if you can't remove divx totally then you'll want to go into the SMExclusions folder
in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\DivxNetworks\Divx\SMExclusions,
and right-click create a new string value (REG_SZ) for each and
every .exe player you might have on your system, so stuff like
mplayerc.exe, mpc.exe, mplayer2.exe, wmplayer.exe, virtualdub.exe,
with the exe name in the Data column,
ex. WMP REG_SZ wmplayer.exe
That way you don't have that annoying Divx tray icon popping
into your systray everytime you open a video file.
- Install or check ffdshow that its set to the ffdshow default merit and that
its set to playback divx,xvid,etc content.
1) Launch the "Video Decoder configuration", select DirectShow control,
set the merit slider bar to "ffdshow default", you might even try "very high"
if you have lots of other screwy codecs on your system.
2) select the Codecs list in the left-pane, in the right-pane click
on each of the Xvid, Divx4/5/6, Divx3 formats in the Decoder column
and choose libavcodec from the drop-down box that appears, click Apply, OK
3) In Tray, dialog and paths in the left-pane, select None (personal preference)
for tray icon
4) In Output-RGB conversion, select Full Range for Input Levels,
and Computer Monitor for Output Levels so you get the full contrast
range rather than the condensed sRGB (again, personal preference)
- Install/Setup MPC-HC to be the default playback for
all .avi .mpg .divx .mp4 .whatever files in the File Types
options in XP or whatever you're using. If you're using
its internal filters, make sure the Divx, Xvid checkboxes
are marked in the Internal Filters, transform filters section
(personal preference, in MPC-HC)
Playback, Output:
VMR9 Renderless (if using XP, might try Haali if its
installed also but VMR9 allows the pixel shaders, so)
Surface: 3D surfaces (if you have a 3d videocard worth its salt)
Resizer: Bicubic A=-0.75
checkbox VMR9 Mixer Mode, YUV Mixing,
not sure if they still have Lock Back Buffer on
current versions, but if using a large LCD monitor
it can't hurt to help eliminate tearing artifacts.
Setup like that you can use image file saving,
pixel shaders in the Shaders right-click menu,
and subtitles,etc.
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| rjisinspired |
| Posted: Aug 27 2010, 05:43 PM |
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I went into the registry into Div4windows and in the right hand pane I don't see "ASP7xInColorFormats, ASP7xOutColorFormats, and AVC7xInColorFormats"
Active Profile and Bicubic spline B show where those three should be. Regcrawler shows no results for those neither.
I don't see a service running for DivX nor an updater service for it. If I set a rule for the updater in the firewall, the dialog will pop up each time I reboot even if I select to block and forget about it. I might have to physically delete the file when it isn't in use. This thing is just as bad as QTtask. The updater also errors out not long after rebooting.
I have 2 keys in Local and "S-15-21" --- "DivXnetworks" and right above that key is a "DivX" key but "DivX" is not inside "DivXnetworks"
Following keys in two places:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\DivX
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\DivXNetworks
HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-1177238915-1220945662-725345543-1003\Software\DivX
HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-1177238915-1220945662-725345543-1003\Software\DivXNetworks
There doesn't appear to be an SMExclusions key anywhere in my registry, even searching with regcrawler. If you like I can save the registry parts I do have but I don't have a lot of what your showing me and telling me to look for.
http://rjschat.dyndns.org:8080/Paranoha/AP...ivX-regkeys.rar
Is it possible that even though the DivX uninstaller froze up on me that when I first started uninstalling DivX that it could have partially deleted a couple of things? If this is so I won't be able to rid of this trash and some time down the line would have to redo the whole computer over again or start trying to unregister and delete every DivX related file on this system and every registry key related to only this DivX software.
Problem is this would be a touchy field because some keys would be related to other programs and if I nix the wrong key that could be bad. |
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| evropej |
| Posted: Aug 27 2010, 06:08 PM |
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I have uninstalled divx and it works very slowly.
Leave it be for a while, ten minutes or so, and see what happens.
I have a core i7 runnint at 3.1ghz and it still takes a couple of minutes.
Also, reinstall it to make sure all the files are there for the uninstaller.
I also noticed that divx causes explorer to crash when displaying thumbnails of images.
Also, there is no way to stop the updates unless you delete the executable.
Not to mention its settings keep reverting.
The real fix has nothing to do with divx, registry or any manual intervention.
Given the scale of stupidity in programming, there is only one solution these days.
Imaging.
I use acronis to image a clean install of my windows installation.
Once I encounter a problem, it takes me approximately 4 minutes to re-image my machine.
Do I google for 30 minutes, reg hack for 60, rebooting fifty times, posting some thread or re-image?
You guessed right, I dont bother uninstalling anything.
This process takes some time to setup once.
Just once.
Then reep the joy of re-imaging on the fly.
Just my 3 cents.
PS If you hate divx, never ever use splayer. This program is almost a virus on media files. |
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| rjisinspired |
| Posted: Aug 28 2010, 02:15 AM |
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I did it!! I was able to uninstall DivX!
I used Nir Sofer's program to disable the DivX components and then the DivX uninstaller didn't hang anymore.  |
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