codec registration

How do I register a codec? I read a few posts about it
and went to the PapaJohn site, but couldn't find a
satisfactory answer. Let say I want to register the
following codec: iccvid.dll. Il will go to the DOS promt
and type the following: c:\windows\sytem32\regsvr32
iccvid.dll . There will be an error message saying"
(translation from french here) iccvid.dll as been loaded,
but the entry point DllRegisterServer cannot be found.
The file cannot be registered". What am I doing wrong?
Can someone help me with this? Thanks in advance!

John
Tue Nov 25 09:47:57 CST 2003

Hi there,

A Codec/DLL is a collection of routines assembled into what might be
considered a "black box" You push something in and out the other end comes
the result, except this black box can have many routes through it....each
of the routines is identified by a name or an ordinal number.

Before you can use the black box you have to know how the procedure you
want to access is declared and what its identity is. The software that
installs the DLL will know that of course and consequently give, if at all
needed, the registry the required information.

It is of course likely that this dll requires other dll's to work. It may
even require that a licence be present (That's what I do), in which case
you may never get it to work without performing a legal installation.

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Sarpas
Tue Nov 25 11:47:19 CST 2003

Thank you for taking the time to reply. This information
is appreciated. However, it doesn't help me re-register
the codec I need to play the MPEG-2 Files I have on my
computer. I guess I will have to resort to rollback for
now. I had to unregister them in the first place because
the were preventing WMM to work properly. Thanks anyway.

>-----Original Message-----
>Hi there,
>
> A Codec/DLL is a collection of routines assembled
into what might be
> considered a "black box" You push something in
and out the other end comes
> the result, except this black box can have many
routes through it....each
> of the routines is identified by a name or an
ordinal number.
>
> Before you can use the black box you have to know
how the procedure you
> want to access is declared and what its identity
is. The software that
> installs the DLL will know that of course and
consequently give, if at all
> needed, the registry the required information.
>
> It is of course likely that this dll requires
other dll's to work. It may
> even require that a licence be present (That's
what I do), in which case
> you may never get it to work without performing a
legal installation.
>
>--
>Best Wishes.........John Kelly
>www.the-kellys.org
>---
>Please Note : DO NOT reply by e-mail unless invited to
do so.
>---
>In Xanadu did Kubla Khan a stately pleasure-dome
decree : Where Alph, the
>sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea.
>.
>

PapaJohn
Tue Nov 25 12:17:04 CST 2003

I guess I'd go to the folder first and then run the command

regsvre32 iccvid.dll

I tried registering and unregistering that DLL and got the same error
message you see. Adding the /s and using the command;

regsvr32 iccvid.dll /s

just silences the messages, so you're not sure. I usually check with GSpot
to see if it's registered or not.

But maybe this DLL doesn't need registering. I see in my GSpot list of
codecs that the DLL is called by something else. My list is on the Problem
Solving... Acceleration and Codecs page of www.papajohn.org


PapaJohn

"sarpas" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:036c01c3b23f$2c359a20$a501280a@phx.gbl...
> How do I register a codec? I read a few posts about it
> and went to the PapaJohn site, but couldn't find a
> satisfactory answer. Let say I want to register the
> following codec: iccvid.dll. Il will go to the DOS promt
> and type the following: c:\windows\sytem32\regsvr32
> iccvid.dll . There will be an error message saying"
> (translation from french here) iccvid.dll as been loaded,
> but the entry point DllRegisterServer cannot be found.
> The file cannot be registered". What am I doing wrong?
> Can someone help me with this? Thanks in advance!

John
Tue Nov 25 12:45:09 CST 2003

Hi There,

Oh I See!!! I don't know why but I had the impression you had got this
codec from someone else and wanted to just use the codec. My apologies

In that case, has the software got a "Repair" function? Quite a few have
nowadays and its very usefull...In your case it would re-register the codec
at the same time as ensuring that all other support files were in there
correct place.

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