laurentio
1st November 2008, 10:22 AM
What to do if you get a You Need Vodei MP to play this movie warning upon opening a movie. Be warned the nag screen will be a constant issue. Luckily for you, there is a way around it.
In reality it is little more than a bid to get people to pay for something thought a bit of deceit. Its more like a glorified password protected rar file.
It seems that after this page (one among many to counter the ignorance of such a ploy) was created. The Creator of the Vodei crap altered things a bit to make things more difficult. This is just a silly little wrapper "codec" for avi content.
To get around this foolishness, The instructions are simple:
Currently there are two solutions to getting unrestricted playback access to the avi.
If the first solution does not work, then temporarily install the "codec" and try the second solution.
1. NOBBLE THE AVI FILE
Open the avi in a hex editor (eg UltraEdit) and do a search for the text string "STRD", and nobble these four bytes with zeros.
For example:
53 52 54 44 ; STRD --------> Before
00 00 00 00 --------> After
__________________________________________________ ___________
2. NOBBLE THE CODEC ITSELF
VodeiMPAVI.ax (618,496 bytes. md5sum 946e1c60cb4556717664d6b4262987b4)
Open "VodeiMPAVI.ax" in a hex editor (eg UltraEdit) and jump to offset 19804h. Then nobble four bytes:
75 07 32 C0 --------> Before
90 90 B0 01 --------> After
Once you have unrestricted playback access to the VodeiMPAVI avi file, you should demux it and then remux it to a standard avi file.
In reality it is little more than a bid to get people to pay for something thought a bit of deceit. Its more like a glorified password protected rar file.
It seems that after this page (one among many to counter the ignorance of such a ploy) was created. The Creator of the Vodei crap altered things a bit to make things more difficult. This is just a silly little wrapper "codec" for avi content.
To get around this foolishness, The instructions are simple:
Currently there are two solutions to getting unrestricted playback access to the avi.
If the first solution does not work, then temporarily install the "codec" and try the second solution.
1. NOBBLE THE AVI FILE
Open the avi in a hex editor (eg UltraEdit) and do a search for the text string "STRD", and nobble these four bytes with zeros.
For example:
53 52 54 44 ; STRD --------> Before
00 00 00 00 --------> After
__________________________________________________ ___________
2. NOBBLE THE CODEC ITSELF
VodeiMPAVI.ax (618,496 bytes. md5sum 946e1c60cb4556717664d6b4262987b4)
Open "VodeiMPAVI.ax" in a hex editor (eg UltraEdit) and jump to offset 19804h. Then nobble four bytes:
75 07 32 C0 --------> Before
90 90 B0 01 --------> After
Once you have unrestricted playback access to the VodeiMPAVI avi file, you should demux it and then remux it to a standard avi file.