Creator 2010 Cineplayer - dies

[Big_Dave]

Creator 2010 Cineplayer dies. The time counter doesn't advance and the Cineplayer screen is black. I tried different DVDs and two different videos stored on the hard drive. I am running Windows 7 64 bit on a HP e9280t system. Two other video players do work. I did a clean install and appled sp2. No go.

 

I reimaged my system back to 2/5/2010 and Cineplayer works. After 2/5/2010 the following Microsoft updates were applied:

 

KB978262

KB971468

KB975560

KB978251

KB971033

KB976662

KB979306

KB890830

KB977863

KB980302

KB979099

KB967264

KB978637

Realtek

ATI

MS Mouse

Atheros

 

It appears that one of the above updates causes Cineplayer to die.

[gi7omy]

ad them one at a time and check after each - that way you'll know which one is the culprit

[Big_Dave]

D,

 

I know that technique. Lots of debugging tasks and work ahead. I don't know if it's worth it.

 

I never could get Cineplayer (except EMC 9) to run on my laptop under VISTA or Windows 7.

 

Dave

[gi7omy]

Totally unrelated but I have the onboard Realtek HD and gave up on it (installed a simple sound card instead). The reason is that I have a USB Audio Codec (for ham radio PSK tx/rx) and every time it switched from transmit to receive, the flamin' Realtek popped up a window saying a 'microphone had been detcetd - please select...'

[gi7omy]

well anything before Creator 2010 will NOT work on Windows 7 - but you knew that already

[Big_Dave]

After many reboot and restores it APPEARS that Realtek HD Audio updates cause Creator 2010 Cineplayer not to function on my e9280t Windows 7 64 bit system. I have several versions of Realtek HD Audio and only the older version (6.0.1.5898) doesn't stop Cineplayer in its tracks. Perhaps one of the MS updates is making Realtek the culprit but I am not going down that road.

[Big_Dave]

I worked the issue with Realtek and since my other DVD players work with the later Realtek HD audio updates then the issue appears to be a Cineplayer issue.

 

Bottom line: Stay with an older version of Realtek so Cineplayer will work or forget Cineplayer. I already had to forget Cineplayer on my laptop using VISTA or W7 but it works with XP.

[Big_Dave]

I put up a fresh install of Windows 7 64 bit on a separate hard drive without any updates and any third party software. Cineplayer fails with any Realtek update past 6.0.1.5898. There have been several Realtek updates since 6.0.1.5898 and Cineplayer fails on everyone of them. This is on my e9280t PC.

 

The fresh Windows 7 64 bit install is not a HP recovery installation which would include other third party software.