Quickplay

Does HP Quickplay work with DivX and other formats or only DVD's?

 

It works MPEG2 only. The audio boost is so loud, but it works mpg2 only.

 

I'm talking about video not audio.

 

Can't anyone answer my question? It's not even a hard one. I just don't have my laptop so I can't test it.

 

And I meant video, not audio. For audio, it is called MP2.

For DVDs, you have VOB files in DVD video folder. The MPEG2 is compatible with DVD video format. But not XVID, neither DVIX.

 

ok thanks. That sort of suck though.

 

the new quick play is just "Windows XP" a separate install that has been customized,

On my laptop - both boot in the same amount of time, so why use it,

Because it is Windows XP you should be able to add codecs to it so it
could play DIVX and XVID - just not sure how -

but I could swear I saw some thing like that some ware

and here it is

http://www.notebookforums.com/thread141817-35.html
look for post 513

going to try that tonight -

but it also sounds risky - so be careful

 

I was able to do it - not with "acronis disk director" because
the demo/shareware is useless, wont let you do any thing,

had to use boot CDs, one that had a partition manager on it, and
a WinPE boot disk - to copy files over and rename them - the easy
way --- I will not tell you ware to download them - so don't ask

and remember to press F8 each time when booting quickplay to
remove the hibernation file

now here is the info - if you kill your computer, tough sh_t,
don't do any of this unless you know what your doing,

--- like I said dont try unless you can live with losing all your data
and having to reinstall windows - it is easy to mess up when using
partition manager, and you might even kill you ability to restore
from the hard disk, so that you would have to install from CDs or
DVDs ----

the hidden partition is NTFS, but its type is set to 0xD7, or it was
on mine, Windows wants it 0x07 for NTFS, thats were a partition manager
comes in - you need to change it to 0x07, change nothing else

reboot with the WinPE boot CD, change to the drive that is "not" your C:\
drive, look and make shure, rename QP.exe in the "/ProgramFiles/HP"
directory to "QP_bak.exe" now rename your codec pack to QP.exe and
copy it to "/ProgramFiles/HP"

shut down and start QuickPlay and let the codec pack install,

reboot with WinPE - if you cant see the drive - it some how switched
back to 0xD7 - it did on me one or 2 time, just use the partition manager
to switch it back, when your in WinPE delete "QP.exe" and rename
"QP_bak.exe" to "QP.exe"


remember to change the partition back to 0xD7 after your all done,


sorry if it sounds a little vague - I am half asleep - and I am sure its
a little ruff - but you get the idea

I used the "Combined Community Codec Pack" small file about 5mb
plays most formats, and is good for anime viewing

 

Whats the deal with the Hibernation file? What does it have to do with quick play and what is the proper procedure to stay out of trouble?

 

I will regret to do that. Last time I messed up the QP, I spent 3 days to recover everything.

 

I have Quickplay 2.1. Does that make any difference?

 

the Hibernation file is like a disk image of what software is running at the time
you go into Hibernation, its like restoring a hard disk from an image file,
if you dont delete that file it will restore it to the way it was before you
changed it, un-doing your changes

yep - and your right - you take a big risk

It should not - as long as its the "Windows XP" based Quickplay,
the laptop I used is only 2 months old and I just updated Quickplay
in December - let me check to see what version it is, mine is v2.3
- so you might want to up-date yours