Medialooks in Prospect HD?

[Charles W. Hull]

I'm in the process of upgrading from Neoscene to Prospect HD and I use CS4, mostly with a Canon 5D Mk.II. I've been in the habit of viewing raw 5DII .MOV clips and .MP4 files with CoreAVC and Windows Media Player, which gives very high quality playback with my Q6600 XP system.

BUT when Prospect HD is loaded Media Player will hardly play these files (the sound plays normally but the video is very slow, maybe half speed) and a "Medialooks" watermark appears at the upper left of the screen. Does Prospect HD use a Medialooks codec or splitter that has pre-empted CoreAVC? Is there anything I can do to restore good Media Player performance? CoreAVC is still there; it plays AVCHD .MTS files just fine.

Thanks for any advice.

[David Newman]

rename C:\Program Files (x86)\CineForm\Prospect4K\QTsourcePXT.dll, it is only used for MOVs we don't natively support.

[Charles W. Hull]

Originally Posted by David Newman

rename C:\Program Files (x86)\CineForm\Prospect4K\QTsourcePXT.dll, it is only used for MOVs we don't natively support.

That didn't quite do it. Can't play .MOVs with Media Player with QTsourcePXT.dll renamed and graphedit can't construct a graph for .MOVs. Tried re-loading CoreAVC but no help. There must be something telling it to use QTsourcePXT.dll.

[David Newman]

Rename QTsource back, and from a cmd prompt
regsvr32 -u "C:\Program Files (x86)\CineForm\Prospect4K\QTsourcePXT.dll"

this will unregister it. The system doesn't default for supporting MOV in graphedit (why we added this component) so you will need you register a MOV source filter like the Haali media components or mp4slitter.

[Charles W. Hull]

Originally Posted by David Newman

..... this will unregister it.

Okay, that fixed it - thanks!!!!