XP & psisdecd.dll

[steeb]

Dear all,

so I got to thinking about this. From the Jaggy/peanut thread and BrainStormer's link to the very nice peeps @ MP that have a solution.

With my very new and as yet untried and untested VB .Net coding skills (for skills read :eek: )

I thought a possible solution would be to have a 'checker' prog on startup (or by schedule) to check that the correct psisdecd.dll was installed.

Really it depends if anyone is still using XP. Though I think a lot of users are? (myself included)

If any interest it could be on wiki as part of XP install options (utilities)

I say utilities but I was surprised to see that the logical place for me to put this within NextPVR data directory would have been in a utilities one, but that does not seem to exist?

My thoughts are:

dump an .exe in utilities that checks for the correct psisdecd.dll if it is the one 'that works' do nothing. If it is not. Bring up window prompting user to read the MP thread etc.

Turn it on, shortcut to the .exe in startup or as a schedule. Turn it off, well don't do anything?

Very interested to hear all views and I won't rant

cheers

steeb

[stustunz]

I now i shouldnt ask but
What the hell does it do this psisdecd.dll?

[steeb]

I now i shouldnt ask but
What the hell does it do this psisdecd.dll?

You should ask stustunz, and I am so glad that you were the first to ask. That MUST mean you have forgiven me, at least slightly, for other rants

As far as I understand it. And I don't understand it fully.......

An update to XP SP3 changes this file: psisdecd.dll

Which has a knock on effect as to how DVB tuners can behave. BADLY

Jaggy and peanut and BrainStormer's link and of course (sub) worked it out, but as far as I can see this issue keeps coming up. If it isn't a problem then this thead can die naturally.....

Hopefully one of the more knowledgeable bods will pick this up as to whether it is even worth bothering about

Hope you are well stu

steeb