Full Version: Problem with quicktime alternative
please anyone that knows qt alternative and directshow well... trying to get qt alternative 1.67 installed on win2k, playing through mpc 6.4.8.4. I used to have the apple version, which was uninstalled before this. for some reason neither the installer or the control app can register quicktime.ax for directshow. every time I render an mov file through directshow with gspot it points to the old school default quartz.dll to pin the graph, which works but barely. it shows "color space converter" as the video stream, and some unnamed default for the audio. the stream type video/quicktime exists, but refuses to associate with quicktime.ax. if I look through all the installed filters with something like DXMan or FilterManager, the quicktime format isn't even listed. if I go to the qt alt control app to register the filter manually, it runs regsvr32 but does apparently nothing, I've also tried registering it through FilterManager, and the directshow fix reg file which points to the proper source filter in the hive... could it be some leftover reg entries from apple preventing this or what? I'm stumped...
I have never tried to infect a windows computer with a mac file, but since you are kinda sure that this is the problem, and I'm kinda sure it is with this file since I don't think MS would know how to "uninstall it" per say, so now, you have to clean up your registry.
First uninstall quicktime alternative. Then delete it from your program files folder anything that say quicktime alternative, or quicktime itself. Look in the common files folder, and check out the shared folder in there also. Delete all short cuts that were left behind after the uninstall.
Restart the computer. Download this program. TuneUp Utilities 2006
It comes with a host of cleaning and optimizing programs. The ones I wanted you to use are the registry ones. First a clean. Then search the registry for any mention of quicktime and delete it. Then defrag the registry.
Ofcouse this goes without being said. You should backup it up before tampering, but for your piece of mind, I haven't had any ill side affects from doing the above actions, and I've done this a number of times. Granted, not on the same computer. If you don't feel up to picking out quicktime from the registry by hand then you can skip that part.
The programs makes back ups anyway, so if anything goes does wrong, you can use their rescue function.
After defraging you will have to restart, it will tell you so. Restart, wait for it to talk to you again, and just to humor me, install the newest version of the Quicktime. Normal, from Apple quicktime. See if it works. If it does, then you are free to uninstall it, restart, and reinstall the window's version of quicktime alternative.
First uninstall quicktime alternative. Then delete it from your program files folder anything that say quicktime alternative, or quicktime itself. Look in the common files folder, and check out the shared folder in there also. Delete all short cuts that were left behind after the uninstall.
Restart the computer. Download this program. TuneUp Utilities 2006
It comes with a host of cleaning and optimizing programs. The ones I wanted you to use are the registry ones. First a clean. Then search the registry for any mention of quicktime and delete it. Then defrag the registry.
Ofcouse this goes without being said. You should backup it up before tampering, but for your piece of mind, I haven't had any ill side affects from doing the above actions, and I've done this a number of times. Granted, not on the same computer. If you don't feel up to picking out quicktime from the registry by hand then you can skip that part.
The programs makes back ups anyway, so if anything goes does wrong, you can use their rescue function.
After defraging you will have to restart, it will tell you so. Restart, wait for it to talk to you again, and just to humor me, install the newest version of the Quicktime. Normal, from Apple quicktime. See if it works. If it does, then you are free to uninstall it, restart, and reinstall the window's version of quicktime alternative.
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... way ahead of ya buddy, pretty sure the registry has been clean of the original qt. the file types are pointing to the right keys and filter, just for some reason directshow is not passing it through qt alternative before rendering (or so it seems). which is supposedly the "Cyberlink Quicktime Source Filter." I did some digging around and it looks to me maybe since this is kind of an illegal distribution the devs are just covering their asses on this one... it works, but not well so I just wanted to check with anyone else who actually has qt alternative on their system and compare the filter order with someone who can see how it's rendered.
... way ahead of ya buddy, pretty sure the registry has been clean of the original qt. the file types are pointing to the right keys and filter, just for some reason directshow is not passing it through qt alternative before rendering (or so it seems). which is supposedly the "Cyberlink Quicktime Source Filter." I did some digging around and it looks to me maybe since this is kind of an illegal distribution the devs are just covering their asses on this one... it works, but not well so I just wanted to check with anyone else who actually has qt alternative on their system and compare the filter order with someone who can see how it's rendered.
What can I say now?....
Repeate steps 1 - 4 subsituting Directshow for Quicktime????
I don't really know.
good luck.
Repeate steps 1 - 4 subsituting Directshow for Quicktime????
I don't really know.
good luck.
nm I figured it out... yeah the splitter really isn't labeled on render, probably for above reasons. confirmed by running through GraphEdit, inserted splitter and connected pins manually. otherwise there's no string output for either quicktime alt or cyberlink but it is indeed split by quicktime.ax and then output through quartz. note to anyone else confused by this, you'll see it labeled by a discreet [R] that does point to quicktime.ax if you render it in GSpot. totally missed it since I didn't recognize the notation, just not familiar with the stream. weird thing is it doesn't even show up when you step through the dshow graph connections with something like matroska diag, it's totally transparent.
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