Crash when installed on system that formerly had Pinnacle hardware

Question

Encore 2.0 (but not 1.5) consistantly crashes when installed on a
system which has the RALcodec codec installed (My system is a dual 2.8 Ghz Xeon Dell under Windows XP SP2). This codec is installed by a variety of Pinnacle hardware installations such as the DC-1000 and DC-2000. It remains active on the system even after removal of these devices. The symptom is an Application Error after about 20 minutes and the usual offer to send info to Microsoft, even if Encore is simply opened and a empty project created.
The solution is to rename the Ralcodec and associated files:
Cachex.dll
FXlib.dll
MedMan.dll
MLPagAX.dll
RALCodec.dll
RALCtrl.cpl
RALMain.dll
from the C:\Windows\system32 directory, reboot and then delete them.
Of course your DC-2000 won't work anymore but that is probably not
an issue.
Some other details in case anyone cares: The Pinnacle software
is loaded by Encore because Encore enumerates all installed
codecs. When loaded, the Pinnacle software
creates a hidden window called AudioInputWnd and then listens
for various Windows messages on this window. This processing
goes on in the background while Encore is running and eventually
results in the app crash. Note that 3 years ago, when using
Premiere 6.5 with the Pinnacle DC-2000 I used to get occasional
crashes when exiting Premiere. The error message displayed at
that time referenced AudioInputWnd as well. So it appears
that even back then, with Premiere 6.5, there was a problem with the Pinnacle software.
The crash of Encore 2.0 doesn't produce a message explicitly
referencing AutioInputWnd but under Windbg you can
see that the software is dispatching a message received from that
window's queue. When RALcodec is removed, the AudioInputWnd
is not even created anymore when Encore is run.
I would note that Adobe support was unable to solve this problem and
suggested the usual unhelpful littany of reinstallation of Encore and
to update the video drivers when I first called it in 3 months ago. Another person, Dave Shriver also reported essentially identical problems in the Encore forum back in Februrary. The root cause appears to have actually existed in the Adobe certified bundle of Premiere 6.0/6.5 with the DC-2000 before resurfacing in the present form with Encore 2.0.

Answer 1

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