AnyDvd 6.1.3.0 [Archive]

Maud'dib

5th March 2007, 18:20

New version at Slysoft web site. It supports Blu-Ray:clap: :clap: :clap:

Webslinger

5th March 2007, 18:39

AnyDVD HD History

6.1.3.0 2007 03 05
- New: Added Blu-Ray support
- New: Added removal of Blu-Ray region code
- Change: Automatic update notification is now less intrusive
(it uses a ballon tool tip) on Windows XP and Vista
- Change: I/O on 64bit OS (WinXP64/Vista64) moved to kernel mode
- Updated ElbyCDIO layer, fixes "cannot get exclusive access" in
CloneDVD and CloneCD under XP64 and Vista64
- Change: ElbyCDIO uses less CPU cycles under Windows XP and Vista
- Change: After using CloneCD or CloneDVD, AnyDVD does no longer
rescan the disc under XP64 and Vista64.
- Fix: HD DVDs without iHD menus did not work
- Fix: AnyDVD did not shut down properly when user logged off
- Fix: AnyDVD could be unintentionally disabled for some drives
- Fix: AnyDVD could detect Arccos copy protection on short multi
angle titles (e.g., extras on Monster House, R4) by mistake
- Some minor fixes and improvements
- Updated languages

visit http://www.slysoft.com/download.html

hiro1030

5th March 2007, 18:49

Thanks for the heads up. I just downloaded and installed it.

Charlie

5th March 2007, 19:03

Thanks again slysoft.

stang05

5th March 2007, 19:22

Charlie

5th March 2007, 19:33

cannot update newer version. cleared browser cache and still get same update 6.1.2.5. went to home page and history says that I have the latest update but the page says 6.1.3.0. Any help would be thankfull

Try this link

http://static.slysoft.com/SetupAnyDVD.exe

stang05

5th March 2007, 19:52

still the same thing ???????:confused:

Charlie

5th March 2007, 20:06

Sorry to hear, I don't know what else to do here so I'll let someone else try to help ya out.

Webslinger

5th March 2007, 20:07

still the same thing ???????:confused:

Clear your browser cache.

Charlie

5th March 2007, 20:08

cannot update newer version. cleared browser cache and still get same update 6.1.2.5. went to home page and history says that I have the latest update but the page says 6.1.3.0. Any help would be thankfull

Clear your browser cache.

He has tried that web. otherwise I would of suggested it. :D

Webslinger

5th March 2007, 20:09

He has tried that web. otherwise I would of suggested it. :D

Hmm . . . might be a server issue. I got 6.1.3.0 without any problems.

Charlie

5th March 2007, 20:34

I told him if he PM's me with his email addy I'll send the exe to him.

I just sent him the exe so let us know how it went.

hiro1030

5th March 2007, 21:09

One time the same thing happened to me when I try to update even after I cleared the browser cache. So, I turn off my DSL for 10 seconds and turn it on again. Then, it worked.

Charlie

5th March 2007, 21:46

Well I sent him the direct exe file and he said it didn't work so it sounds like if your ideal doesn't work then he needs to send in a support ticket.

Tom

6th March 2007, 04:22

still the same thing ???????:confused:

stang05,

please try this one: http://static.slysoft.com/SetupAnyDVD6130.exe

I assume that a redirect script is not working well. I tried to find out where the problem is, but all mirrors are set up properly...

mrhyde1969

6th March 2007, 14:03

:( I am also having problems installing 6.1.3.0...
I have tried installing over the top and also doing a complete un-install, then a re-install but this still wont work.. Keeps saying that i have 6.1.2.5
This is it keeps telling me there is a new version do I want to visit the slysoft site to update!!!!
I have never had this problem before, I have been using ANYDVD for years now and I usually just 'RUN' the installation stright form update link ansd this has normally worked fine....:confused:

marlowe

6th March 2007, 15:06

mrhyde1969

6th March 2007, 18:00

yep, tried that one also.......

James

6th March 2007, 19:11

yep, tried that one also.......

If you start the installer, what version does it display?

Charlie

6th March 2007, 19:19

If you start the installer, what version does it display?

Sorry James on getting back so late. It was another user I was trying to help I sent him the same exe file I downloaded and I am using 6.1.3.0 So I was thinking if I sent him the exe then it'll work so guess what he said it didn't install the latest version. This user was "stang05". You might see if he'll respond to this though. Opps I thought you quoted me sorry. But this is some info to ask this user. :D

Achernar

7th March 2007, 09:56

James

7th March 2007, 10:05

Perhaps it would be useful to check the installer against the following details:

name: SetupAnyDVD6130.exe
size: 1433608 bytes
crc32: 3C0E5E48
md5sum: e46971914b62a1346deea4cb5219b1f0

Also, downloading it with the DL-manager could avoid eventual browser cache problems...

Regards.
The installer is signed, so it should be very easy to check if it has been modified. Before the install it shows the version it is going to install, so you can check if you have the correct version.

Hawk

7th March 2007, 11:11

Well done Slysoft. I was looking foward to it.. supporting blu ray

colinhunt

8th March 2007, 15:49

Tried 6.1.3.0 today with X-Men III (Region A). PDVD displays the very first copyright warning screen for less than a second, crashes, and wipes itself out of PC's memory completely. In settings, I had enabled "Remove region coding" and selected Region A.

James

8th March 2007, 16:13

colinhunt

8th March 2007, 16:25

Can you try it again with region coding removal disabled?
I'd have to change the region for PDVD. Do you know if the "remaining changes" applies to the drive as well, or is it PDVD only? When I run out of region changes, can I just uninstall & re-install PDVD to get 5 more changes?

James

8th March 2007, 16:54

I'd have to change the region for PDVD. Do you know if the "remaining changes" applies to the drive as well, or is it PDVD only? When I run out of region changes, can I just uninstall & re-install PDVD to get 5 more changes?
I see. No, you can't just uninstall PDVD, the region counter will not be reset.

colinhunt

8th March 2007, 16:57

So the "remaining changes" is actually in the drive hardware?

SuperGoof

9th March 2007, 07:50

So the "remaining changes" is actually in the drive hardware?

I see several possibilities here:
1) Region counter is stored inside the drive and is the same for all player software. I think this is unlikely because I saw a post saying that when you change region in WinDVD, it does not affect the number of remaining changes in PowerDVD.
2) Region counter is managed by the drive and is different for different players. In this case a player should have the ability to set different region for each installed drive (Which does not seem to be the case).
3) Region counter is managed by player software only. Then it is probably stored somewhere inside Windows (most likely Registry). When you uninstall the software, they keep that setting intact and reuse if you reinstall it. But in this case the counter is reset if you reinstall Windows and also can be different for the same player in each Windows copy installed on the same machine.

From what I have read so far, I think 3) is most likely the case.

I'm also a bit scared to experiment with it, but eventually I will probably do it.

I have XP and Vista installed on my laptop, and PowerDVD installed in both. This evening I will try to change region setting in PowerDVD in Vista and see whether this will affect the number of remaining changes in XP.

oliver27

9th March 2007, 14:57

I have XP and Vista installed on my laptop, and PowerDVD installed in both. This evening I will try to change region setting in PowerDVD in Vista and see whether this will affect the number of remaining changes in XP.

I have powerdvd and windvd bd on the same system (win xp) and changing a region in powerdvd does not affect windvd. You can have windvd in region A and powerdvd in region B.

SamuriHL

9th March 2007, 15:49

Anyone brave enough to try a registry and file watching program while changing the region? :) Maybe it's a stored value somewhere....maybe.

sking

9th March 2007, 22:52

HELLO, EVERYONE,,,
its been along time since ive used/tried anyDVD,,since the first days of the dvd pc ...

anywho: Ive just Upgraded to Vista x64...
ive been trying to installed anydvd HD 6.1.3 all day with no luck..
it seems to hang at the end of install, if/when i click the close button once install is comlete....
So i then need to restart PC,..but once i get to the Windows Login screen it Hangs the system again..
If i disable anyDVD at Startup with MSconfig, i can then bootup fine....

i have tried everything...any ideas/help would be excellent..
using the trial version, untill i can get this resolved for purchase.

sys: C2De6400,P5WDH,2gRam,AIWx1900 v7.2,Realtek 88M v1.61,Vistax64

Webslinger

9th March 2007, 23:07

.Ive just Upgraded to Vista x64...

If you're using Vista, read this (UAC = User Account Control):
http://forum.slysoft.com/showpost.php?p=11244&postcount=9

sking

10th March 2007, 06:14

thanks for fast reply, man i newbed myself in the Slysoft Forum login...couldn't get in for hours...lol..

anyway, yah, i read this thread earlier in my trials, but i already had UAC disabled,.i went up & down this forum and others looking for people with this problem, ...
like i was saying, anydvd hangs at the end of it's install...the only way around this is to just restart the pc without clicking close/finish...if i click close it hangs...when pc reboots it hangs @ Auto login

ive even made another account to stop auto login + turned off auto login. to try the harddrive downspinning trick..

6.1.2.o = doesnt crash, but cannot find drives (error cannot detect, please reboot)
6.1.2.5 = same as above

6.1.2.8 = hangs when finished installing

6.1.3.0 = hangs

it seems when x64 I/O kernal was changed in 2.8,(reading chanje log) this is what's causing the hangup.
or maybe the drivers installing are bugging up some how...hmmm

,these were all the versions i tried today before, i got here...(6.1.3.0 was my first try)

now im wondering, is there a crash report/log i can post......
(il feel real dumb if you tell me HDDVD does not work with trial versions..lol)

again, thanks for your help

SuperGoof

10th March 2007, 09:59

I have XP and Vista installed on my laptop, and PowerDVD installed in both. This evening I will try to change region setting in PowerDVD in Vista and see whether this will affect the number of remaining changes in XP.

As I expected, changing Blu-ray region setting in PowerDVD in Vista had absolutely no effect on PowerDVD in XP. I even found where PowerDVD stores region settings and how to reset them, but I'm not sure whether forum rules allow me to tell my findings here.

So it is now 100% certain, that Blu-ray regions only exist on application level. "Blu-ray drive region" is completely out of the equation, because it does not exist.

Based on my experiments, I come up with a theory on how Blu-ray regions work. Here it is:

Blu-ray region settings on a disc are not flags indicating players configured for which regions are allowed to play the disc. They are rather rules telling the player what it should play if it relates to a given region. Rules are checked at the beginning of the playback. These rules are specified for players of each region, and the player does not know in advance what it will get if it follows rules for its region. If it is lucky, it will get a main movie. If not - a short clip saying that the player has a wrong region to play the movie.

What AnyDVD probably does when you opt to remove Blu-ray region coding and select a preferred region - it changes those rules for two other regions making them the same as the rules for the region you selected. Thus even players with 'wrong' region will get the same content as those with the 'right' one. All this is accomplished by altering a few bytes in MovieObject.bdmv file (so I assume these rules are not even encrypted or something).

An analogy is this: You are a good driver who always follow the rules. You intend to reach some City, and you are approaching (actually, starting at) a crossroad with a road sign saying "Red cars must turn left, Blue and Green cars must turn right." You are driving a green car, so you turn right hoping to reach the City. But instead you get to a dead end with a sign saying "Sorry, only red cars can reach the City.". You might turn back, and go to the service and get your car painted in red (then you will be able to turn left at that crossroad), but you can (in theory) only do this trick 5 times. So instead you call your friend (Peer) in RTA and ask him to change the sign (it is an illuminated indicator board, so it can be changed remotely) so that it now says "All cars must turn left.". This way you reach the City.

But I still do not completely understand what Peer meant when he said (http://forum.slysoft.com/showthread.php?p=15654#post15654):

AnyDVD HD for now simply lets the title "think" that your player has the correct region code (quite a mind twister...). So the region code is not actually removed.
Though I'm already thinking about a way to really remove it.

If my theory is right, then what he does IS indeed removing a region code.

Please correct me if I'm wrong somewhere.

Webslinger

10th March 2007, 11:41

now im wondering, is there a crash report/log i can post......
(il feel real dumb if you tell me HDDVD does not work with trial versions..lol)

again, thanks for your help

Sorry, I haven't reproduced the error. I would imagine something is blocking your installation. I also don't have Vista 64 bit edition. You can try uninstalling and reinstalling, but other than that I have no other suggestions.

HD-DVD will work with trial versions (you will, of course, need a HD-DVD drive).

James

10th March 2007, 14:04

As I expected, changing Blu-ray region setting in PowerDVD in Vista had absolutely no effect on PowerDVD in XP. I even found where PowerDVD stores region settings and how to reset them, but I'm not sure whether forum rules allow me to tell my findings here.

They allow it. Please tell us. :D

roog

11th March 2007, 00:32

Aynone know if AnyDVD HD 6.1.3.0 is optimized for Core 2 Duo processors?

Webslinger

11th March 2007, 00:34

Aynone know if AnyDVD HD 6.1.3.0 is optimized for Core 2 Duo processors?

I don't know what you mean by "optimized"? Anydvd works fine on Core 2 Duo systems, and it barely uses any system resources.
If you're asking if the code uses more than one core at once . . . I fail to see why this would be an issue. It's not as though
Anydvd is doing anything that would require tons of processing.

SuperGoof

11th March 2007, 00:51

They allow it. Please tell us. :D

OK. Actually PowerDVD manages this information differently in XP and Vista.

In XP, it is stored in registry here:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{631400EE-60DF-4014-8A01-67106E57BDA8}]
@=dword:00000002

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{9CB23675-4229-4630-AFF6-3668BA6AF33E}]
@=dword:00000004

Under the first location it stores the region (1 - Region A, 2 - Region B, 4 - Region C).
The number of remaining changes is stored under the second location. Every time you change region in PowerDVD, this number is decremented by 1. You can just put there something like FFFF and forget about it.

By default, there are no values in both locations. PowerDVD interprets this as Region A and 5 remaining changes. When you change region for the first time, it puts values there.

In Vista, region information is stored in Alternate Data Stream (ADS) attached to the file "CLDShowX.ini" located in "C:\ProgramData\CyberLink\PowerDVD\". You can view the content of that stream using, for example, "ADSLocator.exe" utility. If you run out of the number of remaining changes, just delete that file. Next time you start PowerDVD, it will be recreated with default settings.

P.S.: BTW, another file in that folder, "001.FCL", also has quite large (23K) ADS attached to it. Maybe some important stuff in it?

roog

11th March 2007, 03:30

I don't know what you mean by "optimized"? Anydvd works fine on Core 2 Duo systems, and it barely uses any system resources.
If you're asking if the code uses more than one core at once . . . I fail to see why this would be an issue. It's not as though
Anydvd is doing anything that would require tons of processing.

I downloaded a Vista sidebar gadget that shows dual core processor usage and I see that AnyDVD HD is only using one core and cpu utilization is below 25%. I was only posing the question, not complaining. Thanks for the reply.

colinhunt

11th March 2007, 04:47

OK. Actually PowerDVD manages this information differently in XP and Vista.
Thank you so much for this info! Now I can test AnyDVD HD further and not worry about running out of region changes.

James

11th March 2007, 06:45

Aynone know if AnyDVD HD 6.1.3.0 is optimized for Core 2 Duo processors?
Yes, it is.

James

11th March 2007, 06:46

OK. Actually PowerDVD manages this information differently in XP and Vista.
...

Great, thank you for the info!

colinhunt

11th March 2007, 14:40

Can you try it again with region coding removal disabled?
Tried it. Didn't have AnyDVD HD running at all, in fact. I get to see the copyright warning, which stays on screen for a couple of seconds. Then the drive makes a seeking sound and PDVD crashes, disappearing from memory. So the result is the same.

I'll try X-men III BD on another PC next, same drive, but this one isn't hooked up to a HDCP-compliant display.

colinhunt

11th March 2007, 14:53

Same thing happened on the 2nd PC. This time I had AnyDVD HD running, but "Remove region code" was disabled. I'm fairly certain the problem lies with PDVD: I used the instructions posted on this forum to install both HD DVD and Blu-ray versions of PDVD on the same PC, and have a feeling there's something in X-Men III's menus that crashes the "tweaked" PDVD. Unfortunately I don't have a single-format PDVD installation on any PC right now, but I will in a few moments... except that PDVD 7.3 is out now and supports both formats in a single installation. I'll give it a try instead.

colinhunt

11th March 2007, 15:37

X-Men III (US region A) on PowerDVD Ultra Deluxe 7.3 and AnyDVD HD 6.1.3.0:

PDVD region set to A + AnyDVD Region removal disabled - works OK
PDVD region set to B + AnyDVD Region removal disabled - won't work due to incorrect region code
PDVD region set to B + AnyDVD Region removal enabled - works OK

Excellent work, SlySoft!

rsuchocki

14th March 2007, 23:35

Delete any files in the recycle bin. I have had the same problem and was fixed by cleaning out the recycle bin.

Hawk

31st March 2007, 23:14

Nice Job supergoof, now let see how movie studios respond to this action. thanks for sharing the knowledge

trlaing

28th November 2007, 12:51

Hi

I have XP 64-bit and couldn't find those registry entries. They are there on my laptop with 32-bit windows XP.

Any idea where 64-bit windows might keep the region info? I cannot play "X-men The Last Stand" Blu-ray as it is region B and I get the error saying my player isn't region B. Other Blu-ray's work fine (Casino Royale and 5th Element).

trlaing

28th November 2007, 12:51

OK. Actually PowerDVD manages this information differently in XP and Vista.

In XP, it is stored in registry here:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{631400EE-60DF-4014-8A01-67106E57BDA8}]
@=dword:00000002

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{9CB23675-4229-4630-AFF6-3668BA6AF33E}]
@=dword:00000004

Under the first location it stores the region (1 - Region A, 2 - Region B, 4 - Region C).
The number of remaining changes is stored under the second location. Every time you change region in PowerDVD, this number is decremented by 1. You can just put there something like FFFF and forget about it.

By default, there are no values in both locations. PowerDVD interprets this as Region A and 5 remaining changes. When you change region for the first time, it puts values there.

In Vista, region information is stored in Alternate Data Stream (ADS) attached to the file "CLDShowX.ini" located in "C:\ProgramData\CyberLink\PowerDVD\". You can view the content of that stream using, for example, "ADSLocator.exe" utility. If you run out of the number of remaining changes, just delete that file. Next time you start PowerDVD, it will be recreated with default settings.

P.S.: BTW, another file in that folder, "001.FCL", also has quite large (23K) ADS attached to it. Maybe some important stuff in it?

Hi

I have XP 64-bit and couldn't find those registry entries. They are there on my laptop with 32-bit windows XP.

Any idea where 64-bit windows might keep the region info? I cannot play "X-men The Last Stand" Blu-ray as it is region B and I get the error saying my player isn't region B. Other Blu-ray's work fine (Casino Royale and 5th Element).