[Thinkpad] Re: Mediamatics don't play after upgrade

[Jonathan Berry]

In article <BAY1-DAV73UAaTzvb5Y0000035c at hotmail.com>, you wrote:
>I am usually a firm believer in "If it ain't broke, don't fix it!"  ;-)

In general, installations of the distribution Mediamatics are 
"broke", in terms of crummy performance.  So the upgrade is a 
necessary one -- or change software.

>Did you uninstall the earlier version of the player first?
>Or were you supposed to install it over previous versions?

It's required to install the upgrade over the original 
installation.  Installing the upgrade fresh definitely will not 
work.  Each package is 15 to 18 MB, as far as I remember.

Installing the upgrade is a two-step process, like many of the 
IBM installs.  The initial "install" just writes the files to a 
temporary directory.  Then you have to find the temporary 
directory and run the setup from there.

I don't have a clue about what could be the matter.  I've had 
pretty good results with a free DVD player, 
FusionSoft DVD Player XP
It's not under active development, and may be hard to find on 
the internet, but it works fine on my 600E 366 MHz under Win2K.  

I don't use XP.  I wonder if the "smart" qualities of XP, 
including DRM, could be incorrectly identifying Mediamatics as 
malware?

>Just a thought or two!
>later,
>dave
>
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Gordan Flego" <gordan.flego at b4b.hr>
>Hello all,
>
>After upgrade of Mediamatics DVD player to latest release I am not able to
>play DVD's any more.
>When I start program I can see Mediamatics button on toolbar (windows XP)
>for few seconds and that it disappears.
>I even tried to change region code, screen resolution but result is always
>the same.
>Old player was working fine.
>

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happy
Jonathan Berry and Erika http://www.islandnet.com/~jberry/fun.htm