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How do I stop PDVD from playing a movie when I insert or mount a Disc?

post #1 of 9
4/28/08 at 6:44am
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How do I stop PDVD from playing a movie when I insert or mount a Disc?

I have PDVD8 and PDVD7 installed with Windows XP Pro. Every time I insert a disk or mount an .iso file it starts both PDVD7 and PDVD8. I don't want it to automatically start any program. How do I stop it from opening those programs when it sees a new disc?
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post #2 of 9
4/28/08 at 6:49am
Edit your registry and remove PDVDserve and PDVDserve8 from the list of programs that run at startup.
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post #3 of 9
4/28/08 at 9:31am
The option to turn off autoplay is buried in the settings. So long as you are using a full version it will save the setting and no longer auto-play, no need to disable it in the reg.
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post #4 of 9
4/28/08 at 10:53am
I thought you could turn of auto-play for the Optical drive itself? Just right click on the drive, select properties, then the Autoplay tab, then select "Take No Action". Don't have AnyDVD here at work or an ISO-mounting tool, but maybe it would have a similar setting in the OS since it is an ODD as far as it's concerned?

Just a question? Why on earth are you mounting a movie ISO if you don't want to watch it???
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post #5 of 9
4/28/08 at 11:35am
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Originally Posted by gtfoltz View Post

I thought you could turn of auto-play for the Optical drive itself? Just right click on the drive, select properties, then the Autoplay tab, then select "Take No Action". Don't have AnyDVD here at work or an ISO-mounting tool, but maybe it would have a similar setting in the OS since it is an ODD as far as it's concerned?

Just a question? Why on earth are you mounting a movie ISO if you don't want to watch it???

Three things:

I don't want it to play the Blu-Ray when I insert the disc because sometimes I am just going to rip it. I have a quick button on my remote to play the movie so I really don't want it to do anything.

When I insert the actual DVD today it actually opens both PDVD7 and PDVD8 at the same time. I know I could just uninstall PDVD 7 but I really want to compare the DTS_MA decoding in 8 to that of PDVD 7 before I uninstall 7.

Sometimes I will mount 4 movies at a time so that I can quickly switch between them. It is a pain if it opens the movie in PDVD every time I mount an .iso.

Where exactly is the autoplay setting in the software. I could not find it.

Also it seems like daemon tools or ANYDVDHD is the program that autoplays the .iso file. Is there a way to disable the autoplay in those programs?
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post #6 of 9
4/28/08 at 12:18pm
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Originally Posted by mpgxsvcd View Post

Three things:

I don’t want it to play the Blu-Ray when I insert the disc because sometimes I am just going to rip it. I have a quick button on my remote to play the movie so I really don’t want it to do anything.

When I insert the actual DVD today it actually opens both PDVD7 and PDVD8 at the same time. I know I could just uninstall PDVD 7 but I really want to compare the DTS_MA decoding in 8 to that of PDVD 7 before I uninstall 7.

Sometimes I will mount 4 movies at a time so that I can quickly switch between them. It is a pain if it opens the movie in PDVD every time I mount an .iso.

Where exactly is the “autoplay” setting in the software. I could not find it.

Also it seems like daemon tools or ANYDVDHD is the program that autoplays the .iso file. Is there a way to disable the autoplay in those programs?

just go to control panel for autoplay and turn it all off and then go to startmenu and run the msconfig command and go to startup and remove PWVDserve and PDVDserve8 from startup then either reboot or go to task manager and kill the pwerdvdsrv processes.
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post #7 of 9
4/28/08 at 12:39pm
For PDVD 7 - configuration - player tab - advanced button - uncheck play automatically when inserting disc.
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post #8 of 9
4/28/08 at 1:44pm
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For PDVD 7 - configuration - player tab - advanced button - uncheck play automatically when inserting disc.

+1
its under FILE Association tab or u can disable the PDVD services it work also as mentioned.
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post #9 of 9
4/28/08 at 5:45pm
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Originally Posted by markrb View Post

For PDVD 7 - configuration - player tab - advanced button - uncheck play automatically when inserting disc.

Thank you kind sir! That did the trick. One point of clarification though. This is on the file associations tab of the advanced menu right?
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