Disabling Macrovision - AIW 8500DV
I am using an All-In-Wonder 8500DV card, running Win XP Pro. What's the
best/easiest way to disable Macrovision? I have just replaced the ATI drivers with the latest Omega drivers (v.2504) but this didn't seem to do the trick... |
I remember seeing a reference to a patch for this on the forums at:
http://rage3d.com Please post back your results. -Kent |
Some ppl suggest going back to earlier drivers, eg. Catalyst 2.2 and then
using the "DisableATIMacrovisionDetection.zip" utility. I have tried that utility and it didn't work for me, possibly because it's not for XP (I have also tried "atimacro100.zip" and "atim30s.zip" without success) but I haven't yet tried it in conjunction with Catalyst 2.2. But it would be a shame to have to revert to such an old driver version. Isn't there a 3rd party driver for the card that has the Macrovision disabled? I seem to recall that there was an Omega driver a while back that disabled it, but it was for Win2K, so I don't know if it would work for XP. I think I still have it somewhere though - is it safe to try installing a W2K driver on an XP system? "Kent_Diego" wrote in message news:uIyPb.47489$XD5.1039@fed1read06... I remember seeing a reference to a patch for this on the forums at: http://rage3d.com Please post back your results. -Kent |
The only other idea I have is to use an external "Video Stablizer" to remove
Macrovision. -Kent |
there's something at www.dvdidle.com that works
for me - dvd region-free "Ralph" wrote in message u... I am using an All-In-Wonder 8500DV card, running Win XP Pro. What's the best/easiest way to disable Macrovision? I have just replaced the ATI drivers with the latest Omega drivers (v.2504) but this didn't seem to do the trick... |
Sleepy wrote:
there's something at www.dvdidle.com that works for me - dvd region-free That doesn't have anything to do with Macrovision. "Ralph" wrote in message u... I am using an All-In-Wonder 8500DV card, running Win XP Pro. What's the best/easiest way to disable Macrovision? I have just replaced the ATI drivers with the latest Omega drivers (v.2504) but this didn't seem to do the trick... -- --John Reply to jclarke at ae tee tee global dot net (was jclarke at eye bee em dot net) |
On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 23:17:05 +1100, "Ralph"
wrote: I am using an All-In-Wonder 8500DV card, running Win XP Pro. What's the best/easiest way to disable Macrovision? I have just replaced the ATI drivers with the latest Omega drivers (v.2504) but this didn't seem to do the trick... the ati macrovision disable patch works on removing macrovision into the computer, not out, something like VLC can circumvent macrovision if you output to a tv via a vcr. ati macro disable worked with 3.2's i stuck with them for quite sometime with my 8500dv. i've moved up to 3.8's they work as well. 3.10's gave crap 2d desktop interface and no open gl so sticking with 3.8's also current omegas gave same 2d crapyness and no open gl. if the version 4 flavours sound good i may try'em, but the system is running sweet now so no rush. it is a 8KB zip DisableATIMacrovisionDetection.zip google will find it. try dvd sites ironically slippery |
the ati macrovision disable patch works on removing
macrovision into the computer, not out, something like VLC can circumvent macrovision if you output to a tv via a vcr. ati macro disable worked with 3.2's i stuck with them for quite sometime with my 8500dv. i've moved up to 3.8's they work as well. 3.10's gave crap 2d desktop interface and no open gl so sticking with 3.8's also current omegas gave same 2d crapyness and no open gl. if the version 4 flavours sound good i may try'em, but the system is running sweet now so no rush. it is a 8KB zip DisableATIMacrovisionDetection.zip google will find it. try dvd sites ironically slippery Thanks Slippery - I had actually tried that one before and *thought* it didn't work...turns out I had done something silly...and now I've tried it again and it works fine! Just for the record, b4 I realised my mistake I also tried the Plutonium XP 8.1 drivers, which are supposed to diable Macrovision. (Had to do a Google to find them b/c I couldn't access the download from www.driverheaven.net.) But unfortunately the Multimedia Center wouldn't even run for me with those drivers installed - even tried going back to an earlier version of MMC but still no luck - so in the end I reinstalled ATI's latest (bog-standard) driver, reapplied "DisableATIMacrovisionDetection.zip"...and hey presto, it works fine. Thanks to all for your help! |
wrong - download it and have a look before you post
"J. Clarke" wrote in message ... Sleepy wrote: there's something at www.dvdidle.com that works for me - dvd region-free That doesn't have anything to do with Macrovision. "Ralph" wrote in message u... I am using an All-In-Wonder 8500DV card, running Win XP Pro. What's the best/easiest way to disable Macrovision? I have just replaced the ATI drivers with the latest Omega drivers (v.2504) but this didn't seem to do the trick... -- --John Reply to jclarke at ae tee tee global dot net (was jclarke at eye bee em dot net) |
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