How can I fully uninstall/remove MainConcept DV Codec?

[q1aqza]

I posted this on MainConcept's own forum 5 days ago and not a single repsonse. Hopefully someone here will know the answer.

I installed the trial version of the MC DV codec. However my Adobe Premiere now keeps crashing and the real time preview shows the video output broken up into five or six pieces all around the Premiere workspace.

I uninstalled using it's own uninstaller but still any capture with Studio 7 or Premiere 6.5 still seems to have the MC DV codec associated when I look at the properties, and Premiere is still crashing and doing the weird RT preview.

I'd like to get back to the MS DV codec only. I usually only output straight to the Adobe MPEG Encoder and I installed the DV codec trial out of sheer curiosity - not for any real purpose

Any advice on how to totally get rid of it will be much appreciated.

Thanks

[yg1968]

I believe that you need to edit the registry. For Panasonic, you need to delete the following registry entries (I am assuming that it is similar for the Mainconcept DV codec):

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\drivers.desc]
"pdvcodec.dll"="Panasonic DV Codec"
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Drivers32]
"vidc.dvsd"="pdvcodec.dll"
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\MediaResources\icm\vidc.dvsd]
"Driver"="pdvcodec.dll"
"Description"="Panasonic DV Codec"

[fingernailX]

try regcleaner or the other registry tools at www.jv16.org to remove all traces of the codec from your registry (use with caution) Also you can search for the manual hack to make premiere use the mainconcept codec and see which codec you are using and possibly undo http://www.abcdv.com/article/articleview/10/1/3

You could always upgrade your old technolgy vfw based editing system to a Direct Show based editor

[DJRumpy]

If your on 2000/XP, you can also remove it via the control panel. Open the control panel, and select 'Sounds and Multimedia' (XP users will have to switch to classic view). Click the Hardware Tab. Double click 'Video Codecs', or highlight it and select the 'Properties' button. Find the offending Codec, highlight it, and select REMOVE.

[q1aqza]

I seem to have solved it by a combination of the answer I recieved. I stripped the registry of all entries I could find that was associated with Mianconcept DV and Ialso tried removing the codec via control panel but it kept coming back. I found the offending DLL in System32 and renamed it to a .old which seems to have solved it. XP wouldn't allow me to delete it but it allowed me to rename it.

Unfortunately now I don't seem to have any default DV codec. When I click on properties > advanced it doesn't show a default codec anymore, prior to the MC Codec it used to show my Pinnacle Studio 7 DV Codec. Premiere is now working OK though.