Windows XP SP2. A recent update to Media Player, and it's now version 11
(even though it said it was updating version 10).
Anyway, everytime I try to play an mpg I get a moving banner at the bottom
of the media player screen saying "Evaluation period expired for Elecard
MPEG decoder" or other such phrase. I have absolutely no idea what this is.
I have never installed such a decoder. And the question is, how do I remove
it?

"Grumps" wrote in message
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Windows XP SP2. A recent update to Media Player, and it's now version 11
(even though it said it was updating version 10).
Anyway, everytime I try to play an mpg I get a moving banner at the bottom
of the media player screen saying "Evaluation period expired for Elecard
MPEG decoder" or other such phrase. I have absolutely no idea what this
is. I have never installed such a decoder. And the question is, how do I
remove it?

XP doesn't come with an MPEG2 codec which is required to
play mpeg2 files, so you have to install one yourself (ie mpeg2
codecs are licensed.) The easiest way to get a licensed codec
is to install DVD player software, such as PowerDVD.
The Elecard trial codec you currently have installed would have
come with some other software you have installed, such as codec
packs, video format conversion software, etc. Alternatively you
could contact Elecard directly and pay the licence fee.
HTH,
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Rob

Rob wrote:
"Grumps" wrote in message
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Windows XP SP2. A recent update to Media Player, and it's now
version 11 (even though it said it was updating version 10).
Anyway, everytime I try to play an mpg I get a moving banner at the
bottom of the media player screen saying "Evaluation period expired
for Elecard MPEG decoder" or other such phrase. I have absolutely no
idea what this is. I have never installed such a decoder. And the
question is, how do I remove it?

XP doesn't come with an MPEG2 codec which is required to
play mpeg2 files, so you have to install one yourself (ie mpeg2
codecs are licensed.) The easiest way to get a licensed codec
is to install DVD player software, such as PowerDVD.
The Elecard trial codec you currently have installed would have
come with some other software you have installed, such as codec
packs, video format conversion software, etc. Alternatively you
could contact Elecard directly and pay the licence fee.
HTH,

Thanks.
My PC came with PowerDVD, so that should've included a licensed MPEG
decoder.
So now all I need to do is;
1) Get rid of Elecard (it's not in startprograms or add/remove programs),
or maybe
2) Re-install PowerDVD (and hopefully that will change my PC's settings to
use its decoder.

Grumps wrote:

So now all I need to do is;
1) Get rid of Elecard (it's not in startprograms or add/remove
programs), or maybe

I had a similar problem a while ago. Installing a demo version of their
MPEG-2 Player (which comes with that codec) and uninstalling it
immediately afterwards helped:

http://www.elecard.com/download/

--
znark

"Jukka Aho" wrote in message
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Grumps wrote:

So now all I need to do is;
1) Get rid of Elecard (it's not in startprograms or add/remove
programs), or maybe

I had a similar problem a while ago. Installing a demo version of their
MPEG-2 Player (which comes with that codec) and uninstalling it
immediately afterwards helped:

http://www.elecard.com/download/

Thanks.
I just tried that, I was quite hopeful that it'd work, but it didn't :-(
So I uninstalled and re-installed PowerDVD and made that the default mpg
player. This seems to work so far.

Grumps wrote:

I had a similar problem a while ago. Installing a demo version of
their MPEG-2 Player (which comes with that codec) and uninstalling it
immediately afterwards helped:

I just tried that, I was quite hopeful that it'd work, but it didn't
:-( So I uninstalled and re-installed PowerDVD and made that the
default mpg player. This seems to work so far.

This might have worked, too:

http://www.elecard.com/support/kb/answer.php?faq_id=20

--
znark

"Jukka Aho" wrote in message
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Grumps wrote:

I had a similar problem a while ago. Installing a demo version of
their MPEG-2 Player (which comes with that codec) and uninstalling it
immediately afterwards helped:

I just tried that, I was quite hopeful that it'd work, but it didn't
:-( So I uninstalled and re-installed PowerDVD and made that the
default mpg player. This seems to work so far.

This might have worked, too:

http://www.elecard.com/support/kb/answer.php?faq_id=20

Thanks for the pointer.
Yes, that looks like it should work. However, I don't have a
programfiles\commonfiles\elecard directory.
I wonder what app installed this in the 1st place.