Installed and Removed Pocket Divx - now PocketTV wont work!

[carrigaline]

Hi,

I installed PocketDivx as I heard it was a good program and I wanted to compare it to PocketTV. When installing it asked if I wanted to replace a DLL from some date in 2002 with this other one from a date in 2000 and I said yes in case it was important......anyhow, I decided to remove the program about 5 minutes later and now PocketTv won't work....I uninstalled and reinstalled that but it still won't work on old or new video files.

I think the file that I replaced with the older PocketDivx version must have been removed from my ipaq when I got rid of that program and this is now causing the PocketTV problem. I am guessing it must be some OS file which is needed (I am not a techy person so this is a guesstimate).

I would think others should have had this problem too.....any solutions for this without a hard reset? (I am guessing that would restore all original files but I don't want to lose everything/have to mess around with restoring files due to work setup done lately which I have not backed up yet).

Any help gladly received........thanks!

[carrigaline]

Hi,

I installed PocketDivx as I heard it was a good program and I wanted to compare it to PocketTV. When installing it asked if I wanted to replace a DLL from some date in 2002 with this other one from a date in 2000 and I said yes in case it was important......anyhow, I decided to remove the program about 5 minutes later and now PocketTv won't work....I uninstalled and reinstalled that but it still won't work on old or new video files.

I think the file that I replaced with the older PocketDivx version must have been removed from my ipaq when I got rid of that program and this is now causing the PocketTV problem. I am guessing it must be some OS file which is needed (I am not a techy person so this is a guesstimate).

I would think others should have had this problem too.....any solutions for this without a hard reset? (I am guessing that would restore all original files but I don't want to lose everything/have to mess around with restoring files due to work setup done lately which I have not backed up yet).

Any help gladly received........thanks!

[Pat Logsdon]

I'm certain the problem isn't with an OS file - they're in ROM, and so can't be changed by any program. That being the case, I'd guess that PocketMVP overwrote one of PocketTV's files.

To fix it, I'd reinstall Pocket TV, and then reinstall PocketMVP. When it asks if you want to overwrite, say "No", and you should be good to go. PocketMVP should still work fine.

[carrigaline]

Thanks Pat......Is PocketMVP another name for PocketDivx? If it is then that great.

Wouldn't the fact that I uninstalled PocketTV and reinstalled it have taken care of the missing/overwritten PocketTV file in the scenario you suggest?

Will try to download PocketMVP and see what happens.....

[dhettel]

Have you tried a simple soft reset?

That could be all you need to do.

[carrigaline]

Yes....tried it to no avail. It seems now that if I open PocketTV first and select a file in the program then it will work but if I use File Explorer and select the file I want to open the following message comes up:

"Cannot find 'Homevid"(or one of its components). Make sure the path and filename are correct and all the libraries are available."

I notice that the file icon in File Explorer does not have the normal PocketTV icon it used to have before all of this either.....it has a blank Windows type icon as if it can't recognise what type of file it is.........

[Ripper014]

PocketDvX was the former name of PocketMVP....

[carrigaline]

I installed PocketMVP (a way better version than the PocketDivx thing I had installed) and the files in File Explorer are now recognised by its file type icon and everything seems to be fine now. Thanks guys!

This player seems better than PocketTV.....is it worth deleting PocketTV and keeping this one now instead?

Thanks again! PocketPCThoughts once again comes to the rescue!

[arnage2]

pocket mvp is compatable with some of the pdas with built in video cards.

[Falstaff]

Originally Posted by carrigaline

This player seems better than PocketTV.....is it worth deleting PocketTV and keeping this one now instead?

I think the newest version of MVP is a great app. I bought PocketDVD and it installed the latest version (I was one version behind) to ensure compatibility with the output files. It has all the features I want with video.

[Pat Logsdon]

Originally Posted by carrigaline

This player seems better than PocketTV.....is it worth deleting PocketTV and keeping this one now instead?

I think so. But keep in mind that they play different file types. PocketTV plays MPEGs and PocketMVP plays DivX.