Great work if you managed to remove the expiry!

Not been a tecky it would be nice if someone could work out how to enable H2.64 support in the releases version of TV Pack
I believe MS H.264 codex is  residing in there somewhere. I few months ago a TV Pack release note flew onto my desk. It stated HD support for France but nowhere else in Europe
Anyone installed the TV pack on a French version of Vista and tried using HD?

Sorry guys, guess I've mixed the files, think it was the RC0 I edited, that's why it had a date check too.
I've tried my patch on the correct file now, and it doesn't work :(
Will give it another go tonight, please be patient, and again, sorry.

Wooo... I really am crossing my fingers and toes on this one .. :)

Does anyone have original RC0 MSDTVVDEC.DLL or Beta MSDTVADEC.DLL?

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Any news on finding a solution to removing the time bomb ?

I'd kinda guessed we'd not see any action on this...

Been staring at the assembler code all weekend, but didn't find the timebomb code :(
I don't have more time this week, so the search will have to wait for now.

It does look like H.264 is included in the RTM dll as well, but not enabled.
Maybe it's better to try to enable it instead of hunting a timebomb in a buggy beta dll.

/Roger

 

I had a quick look myself, and while there are references to H.264 in the released DLL, it is *half* the size of the beta.

I'd say H.264 is not included in the final released DLL. So, in that case, it's either a case of removing the timebomb, or finding a third party solution that actually works!

I thought the size difference was because the beta has debug info in it, or?

MS Please reply on this, at least let us know if a third party is developing a Codec......

Getting some kind of MS line on H.264 support I think is really needed.  In the UK it only really means that I cannot get the HD channels (which I was desperately missing yesterday when BBC had a programme on the Northern Lights which I could not get in HD as the DLL had expired).  However other countries like Ireland and NZ have their entire DVB-T lineup in H.264 meaning that they cannot get any channels at all!  Surely this is a crazy state of affairs if there is a DLL which can allow this but which has not been released.

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Getting some kind of MS line on H.264 support I think is really needed.  In the UK it only really means that I cannot get the HD channels (which I was desperately missing yesterday when BBC had a programme on the Northern Lights which I could not get in HD as the DLL had expired).  However other countries like Ireland and NZ have their entire DVB-T lineup in H.264 meaning that they cannot get any channels at all!  Surely this is a crazy state of affairs if there is a DLL which can allow this but which has not been released.

Crazy is the word. I am in Ireland and need it for both local and BBC HD. Befor fiji timebombed local chnnels were fine BBC was jerky. I moved the dll from fiji to the TV pack. BBC HD was the same but no locals. Got on to Cyberlink but no help there. Have looked into the dll with a de-compiler but am not clever enough to do any good

Someone out there knows how to sort this, lets hope he reads these posts

The TimeDateStamp on the dll is 10.04.2008 19:48:07

it can be adjusted ("in every section of the file") with a program called "PE Explorer" from:
http://www.heaventools.com/overview.htm

Maybe if we set this date back a month?

Could somebody try?

I've not installed the TV Pack yet as I don't want to destroy my channel setup.. does it?

 

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First thing I tried, doesn't work :(

But I changed it forward instead, because if it was a simple check like "valid xx days from file date", then setting it back wouldn't help, only make it expire earlier.

SysRq:

First thing I tried, doesn't work :(

But I changed it forward instead, because if it was a simple check like "valid xx days from file date", then setting it back wouldn't help, only make it expire earlier.

 

Yes of course forward :P... sorry

Tried de-assembeling the dll, it has a reference to this date: Feb  5 2007 16:36:39, but I guess it's nothing..

I also noticed on file info in PE Explorer it says: "Loader Flags - Obsolete" could that be it?

 

Edit:

It also does this call to winmm.dll :

function timeGetTime: DWORD; stdcall; external 'winmm.dll' name 'timeGetTime' index 156;

and this to kernel32.dll :

procedure GetSystemTimeAsFileTime(var lpSystemTimeAsFileTime: TFileTime); stdcall; external 'kernel32.dll' name 'GetSystemTimeAsFileTime' index 375;

But I guess changing these would make the dll fail!?!?

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