[PD] CRAZY! mcdvd_32.dll

Thomas Mayer thomas at dergrossebruder.org
Thu Apr 3 14:16:40 CEST 2008


matteo sisti sette wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a project that I made with an old version of GEM under Windows,
> namely a 0.90 compiled on August 3 2004 (a precompiled binary I downloaded
> from iem.at or somewhere).
> 
> At that time, I had many difficulties in finding a version that wouldn't
> crash AND that supported dv-pal; however I did find it and the project has
> always worked fine.
> 
> In this project I used dv-pal-encoded AVI files and I'm not sure whether
> that version of GEM uses Quicktime or Directshow to open them, but I think
> directshow (apparently supports both).
> 
> Currently, for other projects, I usually use a more recent and stable
> version of GEM (still not the latest), but I had some troubles trying to
> upgrade this project to the new version; so, since it just works fine, I
> always run it with its own dedicated version of GEM, that of 2004.
> 
> I have run it in a few machines without problems, but now I have copied it
> into another machine and it crashes.
> The funny thing is that the module that crashes is mcdvd_32.dll that is
> found in windows/system32, but on the machine where gem does not crash I
> don't even have that dll anywhere!!!!

[snip]

> So what is mcdvd_32.dll?

MainConcept DV Codec according to
http://www.softwaretipsandtricks.com/dll/14693-Mcdvd_32dll.html

> Why is gem using this dll, if the same gem on another machine is not using
> it (it isn't even present in that machine)?
> How can I force him not to use it?

I am not sure, but try moving the dll out of the way, if you have
qcap.dll in the same folder, according to
http://forum.doom9.org/archive/index.php/t-33331.html

HTH,
Thomas
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