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- --- Warning!
-
- The CineMaster tab in DVD Genie is to be used with
- "Software CineMaster" and NOT the "CineMaster decoding card".
-
- DVD Genie was NOT designed to work with DVD Drives
- that contain a firmware locked region code.
- See http://faq.inmatrix.com for information on that.
-
- Trying to use it on such drives is not recommended.
-
- You can find out if your drive's firmware is region locked
- by visiting the DVD Infomatrix home page (see home page above)
- and downloading "Drive Info", a small (5k) program that
- will test this for you.
-
-
- --- Software Cinemaster 2000 notes:
-
- Software Cinemaster 2000 based players will additionally
- use the Windows internal region code setting in combination
- of their own settings. Both region settings must be set
- for Cinemaster 2000 to function correctly.
- See http://faq.inmatrix.com for more information.
-
- Also Software Cinemaster 2000 will clash with any other player
- installed, this isn't the case with Cinemaster 99.
-
-
- --- Software Cinemaster 99 notes:
-
- Software Cinemaster based players may use a backup region
- checking file called "EDLOG.DAT" which is located in the
- "\Windows" directory. If this file exists, it may cause
- problems when changing the regions outside DVD Genie.
-
- If you have a "DevDB" registry entry within your Cinemaster
- registry entry, some of the audio and video settings may
- not be effected by DVD Genie unless this registry
- entry is removed. You may want to create a backup of
- this registry entry before removing it.
-
-
- --- WinDVD Player notes:
-
- The WinDVD region code will not be automatically detected,
- if you have WinDVD installed, just select the appropriate
- region and press "apply".
-
- You may of course change the regions as many times as needed.
-
- If your version of WinDVD is not listed, use the
- "Reset Region" button instead, it will reset the region
- counter back to 5 changes remaining.
-
-
- --- ATI DVD Player v3.10 notes:
-
- The ATI Installation program may not always
- set the CineMaster decoding engine registry
- information including the region, decoding mode, sound
- quality, etc...
-
- You will need to use DVD Genie in order to
- first initialize these settings for the ATI Player to
- even work in such cases.
-
-
- --- PowerDVD v1.30 -> v1.50 notes:
-
- PowerDVD v1.30 uses three different region code protections,
- one of which is contained in the WIN.INI file.
-
- When DVD Genie changes the WIN.INI file, it uses
- the Windows API routines to do so in order to be fully
- compatible with windows and to minimize chances of
- errors.
-
- However, when the API calls are made, there is about
- 5 seconds delay between the call for a change, and
- the actual change.
-
- So, after changing the PowerDVD v1.30 region setting,
- wait for about 5-10 seconds before running PowerDVD
- for the changes to take effect.
-
- As a safety precaution, you may wish to backup the
- WIN.INI file before.
-
- This only applies to PowerDVD v1.30 -> v1.50, newer
- versions use a different methodology that doesn't
- require this minimal waiting period.
-
-
- --- Xing v2.03 and Windows 98 player notes:
-
- When the Xing Player is used under Windows 98 it uses
- both it's internal region counter AND the Windows 98
- region information.
-
- The Windows 98 region information is created the first
- time you try to play a DVD Title using either the Xing
- or Windows 98 DVD Players.
-
- To reset the Windows 98 region counter you must manually
- erase the region key from the system registry.
-
- DVD Genie will try to make your life easier by
- automatically locating the region key within the registry
- and displaying it within the "Win98" tab.
-
- If no key was found under the "Possible Region Keys"
- panel, it may mean that either a key was not created
- (no DVD Title ever played on your machine) or that
- DVD Genie was unable to locate the key.
-
- If the latter is the case, you may try to manually locate
- the Windows 98 region key using regedit (regedit.exe
- can be found in the Windows 98 directory).
-
- Try locating it under:
- "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft"
-
- If a key was located using the DVD Genie,
- make sure you export it using the export button
- (for backup purposes).
-
- Then use the erase button to clear the key and
- thus resetting the Windows 98 region setting/counter.
-
- The next Title played will set the Windows 98
- region code to the Title region code.
-
- And remember, under Windows 98 both the Xing
- region code and the Windows 98 region code
- are checked when the Xing Player is used, so
- remember to set the Xing Region code under
- the "Xing" tab.
-
- Also note, that the Windows 98 Second Edition
- registry key is different than the original Windows 98
- key. The xing player tends to get confused with
- two keys and erasing the new Win98SE key will not work.
- There is no known way to change the Xing region code
- under Win98SE without actually editing the program,
- something DVD Genie will NOT do.
-
-
- --- DVD Express:
-
- DVD Express is region coded, I believe it uses a file
- called "allnode.dll" in cooperation with the windows 98
- and it's own registry setting to enforce one region.
-
- You may be able to bypass this manually by grabbing
- "allnode.dll" and "allnode.reg" from the various
- region installation packages, and manually change
- the regions.
-
- DVD Express is rather buggy, if another DVD Player is
- installed it will clash with it.
-
-
- --- SoftDVD MAX:
-
- Certain versions of the Zoran SoftDVD are coded
- internally for a specific region. They may conflict
- with other DVD players if they are installed on your system.
-
- Newer versions from MGI seem to work just fine
- as their region code authentication has changed.
-