Re: New WarpVision WOW!

Hi David

David T. Johnson wrote:
Pierre Jelenc wrote:
PaulRS <prschmi@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
Since you already have Uniaud installed. You can make backups of the current files and install the new ones over them. I believe they are all in MMOS2 and the dll you reference is in \MMOS2\DLL. That is what
I did when I upgraded.

Well, I tried. Two different versions of Uniaud, and in both cases I see --well, hear-- no difference: Z! works fine, the previous WarpVision works fine, the latest WarpVision works fine on .mov and .avi, but produces no sound from DVDs.

There are a couple of issues when playing DVDs. First, all DVD drives are not equal. If you have two in your system, you will see that some drives do a little better than others, especially with borderline disks that are scratched, dirty, etc. Second, the DVD drives need to be enabled before they will play DVDs. Installing the Windows software that comes with them will do this but it cannot be done in OS/2.


Twaddle.

I can play dvds using either a burner or rom and neither have been initialised by installing windows software.

I'm wondering if you are getting confused with region selection and the limitations imposed on how many times a player can have the region changed - which can be overcome using the player firmware updates from the Dangerous Bros http://tdb.rpc1.org/

Regards

Pete



If you
have a dual-boot system, boot to Windows, install the DVD software, (i.e. something like 'PowerDVD'), and then boot back to OS/2 and DVDs should now play. I don't know what all the software does to the drive (one thing it does for sure is set the DVD 'region') but it has to do its thing before the drive will work in my experience. A new drive installed right from the store into an OS/2 system without being enabled in Windows first will not play DVDs very well but will have missing/garbled sound, heavily pixellated imaging, badly out-of-sync, etc. although it will read digital files without any problems.

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