HP's QuickPlay v2.0

[ChronoDK]

so I split the file into 3 parts about 200 mb each. here are the links:

part 1: http://depositfiles.com/files/151944/HPQPDP.part1.rar.html
part 2: http://depositfiles.com/files/152161/HPQPDP.part2.rar.html (http://depositfiles.com/files/152161/HPQPDP.part2.rar.html)
part 3: http://depositfiles.com/files/152160/HPQPDP.part3.rar.html (http://depositfiles.com/files/152160/HPQPDP.part3.rar.html)

How do I burn these files as a bootable cd? I dont have a Windows-installation to launch the installer from.

[dannymello]

Hi All guys!
This is my firtst post and I would start saying sorry for my horrible english!

Anyway.... I've read all topic and I've tried all links to download QP 2.0 image CD but no one works for me. Could any one please give me a still working link. :bow:

Thankyou all guys!

[AmigaDude]

dannymello - try the links 2 posts back, and make sure that you fill in the code that will display on the left side of the page - after the timer counts down.
It is easy to miss and will look like this:
"Enter Code: XXXX | |"

ChronoDK - All in all it would probably be faster and easier to do a temporary WinXP install, since getting the QP2.1 CD to boot sounds tricky. They use the Windows Installer files and InstallShield which would have to be uhh tricked into working correctly.

[dannymello]

dannymello - try the links 2 posts back, and make sure that you fill in the code that will display on the left side of the page - after the timer counts down.
It is easy to miss and will look like this:
"Enter Code: XXXX | |"


Thank you very much, this afternoon I was at work, and may be there was some restriction. I had seen the field to fill but when I clicked on "download" it linked me in a blank page and no download started.

Now I'm at home and it is working fine... slow but fine.

Thanks againg.

[vasi]

hi!
i bought a HP pavilon dv5000 2weeks ago.
but its from Italy and the windows is the same.
Im hungaian but i cant take hungarian win to the notebook because i didnt get CD-s and i dont want to lose the QP software.Can i download it from somewhere?
thanks

[vasi]

oh and what can ido with HP recovery?
i cant get in it:\

[vasi]

sorry im blind:$
now i see the links.
but for my second question still waiting for answer:$

[vasi]

and i read that i can use QP while windows isnt running.
but how?i have 2.1qp

[vasi]

i downloaded th files but how can i install it?
there is no exe file or something:S

[AmigaDude]

vasi - If I understand correctly, you have QP2.1 on your new DV5000. Now you have downloaded the same thing? No need to bother with that since it is already on your machine. In fact, the install files for QP2.1 should be in your C:\swsetup\QuickPlay folder, or something like that.

You should search around here for one of the posts on Reinstalling windows for some ideas on backing up the important files like Quickplay. It does not really matter if they wrote it for a DV2000, DV5000 or DV8000 since the ideas are similar. Oh yes, and Create Backup Disks now!

[vasi]

thank you!
but i still dont know what is that recovery part and what can i do with that.
and how can i make backup discs?

[vasi]

sorry i found it in another topic.
the backup discs are only the swsetup folder?

[pigreco]

I hope you can, if you do it and share it with us we will be very happy. There is a lot of people that would love to be able to play DivX videos in QPv2.

God Luck!
I've found the solution and just now I've finished to see a divx movie in Quickplay Direct!!!
The solution is not easy but it's possible!!!
The first problem was to access to QuickPlay partition: i used "acronis disk director" and with this program I can see the ntfs file system from default windows partition.
At this point I renamed QP.exe in ProgramFiles/HP directory in QP_bak.exe.
Then I've copied a codec pack installer file and rename and rename in QP.exe.

In this way the new QP.exe is the installer file!

At this point I started my pc in QP mode but I've pressed F8 key to cancel resume system. In this way I started QP partition without hibernating mode.
At the startup, Quickplay doesn' start and codec install file started!
I've installed the file and shutdown the pc.

Now I've started the DEFAULT operative system, and with the same program I restored the old QP.exe file and I've erased the codec install file!

The last point was start the QP partition and with F8 cancel the hibernating mode another time.

So, at this point, I can use the QP partition without problems. I use the hibernating mode (I don't play F8 key now) and I can see all the files that I want.


I want add a specification. The QP partition is setted to start QP.exe and the system tried to start this program in loop if you don't start the right program. So, when I installed codec pack, I had this annoyance.
But only this problem was when I' installed the codec. Now it is PERFECT!!!
Divx, XVID ...ecc.

For more help, contact me by mail at pigreco33AThotmailDOTcom!!!

Bye bye

Now, I'm going to see another movie!!! :-) :-) :-)

[Ericko]

Congratulations! That's another reason to use QPv2.

[amnesiac]

what codec installer did u use? and what do you mean with the last part about the QP partition is settled for Qp.exe?

i dont understand this part..
I want add a specification. The QP partition is setted to start QP.exe and the system tried to start this program in loop if you don't start the right program. So, when I installed codec pack, I had this annoyance.
But only this problem was when I' installed the codec. Now it is PERFECT!!!
Divx, XVID ...ecc.

[pigreco]

what codec installer did u use? and what do you mean with the last part about the QP partition is settled for Qp.exe?

i dont understand this part..

When you use QP partition, it is setted to started and shutdown in Hibernation mode (the same of windows).
If you press F8 key, the system will start with normal bootstrap and then he'll try to start qp.exe from Programfile/HP directory.
He attempt to start this program is in loop, so, if you've substituted the file, the system will'be going in a loop and it'll open a lot of codec install wizard interfaces.
It is not a problem because, when the memory is low, this action is stopped and you can continue to follow codec installation wizard.I've used the codecpack at www.codecpack.com (http://www.codecpack.com).
It is a very useful codecpack file without spyware and it's very light software.

I hope to have answered to your question.

Excuse me for my bad bad bad english.

[amnesiac]

i think i got you meant.. thanks.. i'll definitely try this later. would be really nice to play divx videos in QP also.

[pigreco]

Ok! I'm waiting for your news!

[vasi]

hi again
i've just reinstalled the windows.
but the quickbuttons on the keyboard(the DVD and the roundarrow) opens the winmediaplayer and ot the QP.How can i set it?

[pigreco]

You have to install HP Quick Launch Buttons. You can find this software in the QLC folder in your C /SWSETUP directory!
Bye!

[hairy]

I plan on formatting and reinstalling windows. I would also like to keep Quickplay. Could someone please upload QuickPlay 2.0? Thanks ahead of time... I'll be sure to shower whomever does with more praise and love afterwards.

[stimey]

A friend of mine bought a V3010AU. I came without any software, I have downloaded the 3 files from the links found this thread (to above poster, read this thread before posting:nono: or use the search function) and also the 1.x ISO. When i try to install it 2.x says my "mechine" (nice english) doesn't support this model (i left around 2gb free unpartitioned space) and 1.x ISO boots fine but also says this model isnt supported (made a 250mb partition for it and tried both unformatted and linux formatted). The PDF (http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/press_kits/2006/mobility/fs_presariov3000seriesnb.pdf) about this model says only North-American models support QuickPlay, HP customer support in this country (Malaysia) claims *no* presario supports QuickPlay. Can anyone tell me what the difference is between the North-American models and the rest of the worlds models? Is it BIOS or really hadrware that prevents QuickPlay from installing/working. Maybe something with partitions preventing 2.x to install? and 1.x too? Any help would be really apriciated. Thank you, and already a big thank you to everybody who helped and posted links to files in this thread!

edit: can someone please give me a link to download the windows part of qp 1 and/or 2, the 40mb thing that is i think, cheers :)

[AmigaDude]

stimey - Yes, the bios is what allows/prevents QP from installing. You can sometimes bypass that by updating the registry before installing QP2.x. Search :) on my username in this post and you should see the exact registry entry required. (sorry I don't have it with me) Also, somewhere back in this post, someone posted a link to the QP2.x windows code. I believe it was before the QP2.x Direct code was posted.

I have no idea if the Presario can even run QP, but you can always try.

[stimey]

AmigaDude - yeah i tried your registry hack but it didnt do anything, it still gave me the "can not install on mechine" error.. I cant find any link to the windows version of quickplay, i tried the search and checked a load of pages, a lot of links are also down or say "maximum slots for yorucountry reached" and it says that no matter when i try to download, trying to sell me premium account :( Anyone with a link to the QP windows s/w let me know please, thanks..

[AmigaDude]

Here is the QP2.0 Windows code @ 39Mbytes - http://http://depositfiles.com/files/295897/

[cgadrian]

ne1 try to install QP2.x on Vista RC1? I am trying to locate the installer online with no luck so far. if some one can repost it it would be a great help. for those of you with the dv9008nr like me; I modified the Vista driver nVidia had so it now works on my laptop. Anyone needing it or have a link to QP2.x please email me at christopher.adrian77@gmail.com

[stimey]

Here is the QP2.0 Windows code @ 39Mbytes - http://http://depositfiles.com/files/295897/ woot! thank you.
i been to the HP support center here today and had an interesting chat with one of their engineers. they found it very weird too that the american v3000 series support and have quickplay, but any non american v3000 model doesnt
they tried a couple of quickplay installation cd's but none worked
i guess i have to wait and hope that an american v3000 series owner can copy their quickplay recovery cd so i can try that on the v3000 series here
he also said he would bring this issue up with his supervisor..
i wonder what that will yield to :p
the issue isnt that non american version of the v3000 series dont support quickplay, they do
its the installers not wanting to install on it unless your bios/product-id/serial is allowed/matches some build-in list/check

ive downloaded the quickplay 1.1 opensource, but it doesnt include any hp stuff
just the open source packages they used, so its pretty useless
tonight i will have a go at trying to figure out how the 1.1 linux cd does it checks
and if i can find out how and where i could try and find a way around it
apart from that i'll just have to wait till they release quickplay for non american version of the v3000 series and/or bios update so it allows installation of 1.x and 2.x on the v3000 series
customer support in the UK told me that there *might* be future releases for the non american versions, but i wont get my hopes up
if only some american owner of a v3000 series would copy their quickplay recovery/installation cd :closedeye

AmigaDude - you think it would be possible to "fool" the windows based installed of the stand alone quickplay (the 3 big files unpacked) to install on my v3000? your registry hack didnt seem todo anything and my windows skills are not quite good enough to figure out what it checks and what calls it makes, maybe you can help me out or tell me what tools to use to check what it does.. thanks!

[huchris27]

can quickplay be modified to support other audio codecs such as AAC?

[AmigaDude]

huchris27 - Look at post #513 for a possible way to install codecs, if you are bold and daring. :)

stimey - 2 things on QP2.x:
1 - I used a disassembler ( isd I think ) for the install script to get the code used during the install routines, and walked through with some intuition.

2 - Looking it over, the ONLY time the 'mechine' error message is used is when it is checking for the QPFlag=3 by a call to HPDUtil.DLL. On most machines the registry hack must be tricking the dll into ignoring the bios and using what is there, and I can't understand why yours would be different.

I suggest that you double check your registry to make sure that the spelling and placement is correct. (The upper / lower case MAY be important, though I never checked) This is what I used:

REGEDIT4
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\QPFlag]
"QPFlag"=dword:00000003
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\QPFlag]
"QPPlatform"="DV1000"

[stimey]

ah cool, i will give it another go.. the QWP installs DVDPlay on my V3000 but refuses to install on my EVO notebook it says "can only install on hp computers" on that one.. i will report later on, thanks for the info!

edit:

installing quickplay on my V3000 (v3010au) machine

- download the 3x 200mb files ;)
- run setup and get "quickplay can not be installedon this machine" error
- run registry hack:


Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\QPFlag]
"QPFlag"=dword:00000003
"QPPLatform"="V3000"

- try setup.exe
ran into this at 15%:

---------------------------
ComponentMoveData Error Information
---------------------------
ComponentMoveData had the following error:

Component: QuickPlay Component
File Group:
File:
Error Number: -2147418113
---------------------------
OK
---------------------------

fix for above:

- remove *all* paritions except the 1st primairy windows partition
- re-run setup and watch it fly :)

its done installing and wants me to reboot, i will report after my reboot :p
no matter what happens after this i wanna give a load of credit to AmigaDude
and the people who spend their time to upload the installers
also the installer created a 1gb ntfd partition at the *end* of my hd
ive added a drive letter for it Q seemed best to see whats on there
and it looks like a mini windows install, very interesting
also itso nly using about 500mb of the 1gb it has allocated
i have 1st primairy partition 15gb for windows
and left the rest empty, not i got 15gb/40gb unallocated/1gb quicktime
i hope quickplay works, and keeps working when i reuse the middle unallocated part :)
we'll see, time to reboot now!

[chicagobob]

HI. I am new to this forum and just recently purchased a HP dv2000t. First time on laptops. I do not know what to expect while watching a DVD movie on the computer. Sometimes the picture freezes and locks-up. I never had this problem with my desktop. Any thoughts? Is this behavior to be expected on a small laptop?
Thanks for your time and help,
:bow:
Bob
dv2000t, 1.6 GHz core duo, 1GB RAM, 80GB HD, multi CD/DVD writer, QUICKPLAY, wireless, etc...

[cgadrian]

I would recommend that you run windows update and see if the problem is still there. If so, you can go through HP tech support { http://welcome.hp.com/country/us/en/contact/chat_1.html } or else you can backup your recovery partition and do a full wipe and reinstall everything from there. I did that but did not backup Quickplay before i installed Vista so I got screwed :reallymad If you are doing that be sure to follow the instructions for partitioning you Hard Drive for QP in this thread.

[WeAreNotAlone]

HI. I am new to this forum and just recently purchased a HP dv2000t. First time on laptops. I do not know what to expect while watching a DVD movie on the computer. Sometimes the picture freezes and locks-up. I never had this problem with my desktop. Any thoughts? Is this behavior to be expected on a small laptop?
Thanks for your time and help,
:bow:
Bob
dv2000t, 1.6 GHz core duo, 1GB RAM, 80GB HD, multi CD/DVD writer, QUICKPLAY, wireless, etc...

Could be a bunch of things...

How to Optimize a Notebook Computer

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=5787

[vincesee]

Hi Stimey,

Any good results from your experiment? I have a Presario V3040TU and tried all the necessaries but to no avail.

Hear from you soon!

Cheers

[stimey]

Yes and no :)
After installation my XP bluescreened and when rebooting again while pressing the media key it tried to boot into XP embeded but that also bluescreened.
I spend some time trying to figure out how and why beforei restored my backup. Ghost is your friend when playing with this stuff :) When i have some more time on my hands i will try some other things, the good thing is that it instaleld fine, and the media button worked as it set the QP partition active. That said, the QP partition would remain active even when booting from a CD (Hiren's boot cd is another friend) and setting the main XP partition active, then after a reboot the QP partition would be active again. This could have something todo with the fact QP didnt actualy run/shutdown properly and/or the normal XP thinks its supposed to boot into QP. Ive seen AmigaDude also got into some BSODS i think i have to read up on his posts before having a go at this again, al in all positive news apart form the BSODS. Anyone wanting to give this a try backup your current XP with ghost or something, put it on a usb stick/ext. before you play around. Hirens boot CD can use usb sticks just fine and will save a lot of time cuz you dont have to reinstall your windows :) Good luck to all. And if anyone has some pointers as why it BSOD's please give them to me :)
When booting into safe mode with both XP and embeded XP i got the same BSOD after clsupper.sys: 0x0000007B (0xF9E53524, 0xC0000034, 0x00000000, 0x00000000)

[ramp4ge]

Hey guys. I'm sorry to do this on my first post..but..

This thread is 36 pages long. I have been reading it for 2 hours (Up to page 16) where I found dead downloads for QP2.0..

I've got QP2.0 downloaded and extracted. I get the "Quickplay can only be installed bla bla bla" message when I try to install via Windows.

A little backhistory on my machine.

The computer is a DV1519us. I don't know what version of QP it originally came with because when I got it, it had no HDD (Auction). So my first step was to install a hard drive and Windows, and all available drivers/updates from HP.

Good to go, right? Of course not. Everything works except the QP button, which, from a cold boot, launches QP and then turns the computer off, only to reboot into Windows.

So I'm guessing this is because QP is not installed. I have no restore disks and HP wants 50 bucks for a QP disk...I think not, as this is more then I payed for the notebook..

I was reading some other forums. They say that QP2 requres a 250mb partition (Which I have made with Partition Magic 8). That's all the news I've got.

So, if I burn my copy of QP2 to a CD, making it bootable with Nero, I should be able to boot off of it and install, right?

I honestly don't know. I've been struck by the "Crappy media" bug and cannot currently write disks with ANY computer I've got..

I'm going to need this machine in 2 weeks for a very long trip, and having the ability to use the QuickPlay feature would be very nice.

If someone could post a step-by-step "How to", or even copy and paste one into an email for me, I'd really appreciate it! I've read so much over the last 2 days on this that my head is spinning and everywhere I turn I get different answers--none of which work--and now I'm not even sure I can make this work on a DV1000-series..

And if not--anyone know where I can get QP1.0? :\

[stimey]

ramp4ge - please read my posts above
be sure to leave atleast 1024mb unpartitioned space for qp2
only qp1 needs 250mb, qp2 needs 1gb of which it will use about 500mb
try what i did and it will work for you
as your bios/notebook has proper qp support, unlike mine
i need some v3000's american bios since only american v3000's have quickplay
if you still have questions after reading my posts let me know :)
good luck

[AmigaDude]

ramp4ge - Since this is your first QP install, I suggest you go with QPv1 which is what HP officially supports. Eriko posted a link to the CD in post #110 ( http://www.notebookforums.com/post2033536.html ), which is in NERO format so you will need something that can burn a CD from that.
Just follow these steps:
1) Burn CD
2) Boot from CD, which install QPv1
3) try it out...
4) Goto HP.com and download QPv1.30 update for your laptop
5) Install update, and you are done!
Now if you want you can try the QPv2 stuff, but it requires reading through to see the gotchas.

stimey - I forget exactly what caused my bluescreens, but I do recall that the install code wants you to reboot immediately. It alters the boot sequece so the next boot is to the 2nd partition where it spends a few minutes completing the install. ANY changes to what it thinks should be on the disk and the boot fails, so no disks/partitions can be added until this is complete. While I'm not sure, I don't think it likes when you assign a drive letter to that new partition.

[stimey]

I will give that a try !
The installer installs everythign to X: which is hidden in explorer,
but if you just type X:\ in the address bar you will go there.
Anyways, i wont touch anything and reboot when the installer wants.
Me bad, me don't listen to installers, me do now ;)

edit:

Done, still get the 0x0000007B BSOD which means that it cant access the boot device or something.
I'm now reading this (http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=822052) and this (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/324103) page, hopefully it shines some light on howto fix it.
Other than me restoring my ghost :)

I edited both boot.ini's to show me a boot menu, letting me pick xp pro or xp embedded.
It seems that no matter what i set active with other tools,
the QT partition is *always* activated somehow.
When i select xp pro the laptop boots fine.
But when i select xp embedded i get the blue screen.
Im starting to think that it might be missing some drivers or something.
I will go and try to fix the blue screen in xp embedded, checking out drivers first.
Too bad i dont have a xp embedded boot cd to copy drivers from or try a R repair installation :)
Anyways, i will update here later!

[AmigaDude]

Sorry to here about the troubles stimey. (yes, I've seen/used the X: drive myself :) )

To recover you need to replace the MBR, which you can do by booting off a WinXP setup disk and going into the recovery console and typing fixmbr . This should cause the system to restore the original MBR which boots XP off the primary partition, leaving the QP partition unreachable. (which is what you want for now) The real problem is the partition table has the 0x80 byte turned on for the QP partition to boot, and you need to set it for the WinXP partition. A partition editor would help alot if you have one.

The only reason I can fathom for your continuing problems is that you have a SATA drive, and QP2.1 does not have drivers included in the Embedded configuration.

[Jamma]

I thought I'd jump in at this point...

I found this thread accidentally, and since then, been trying to figure out how to make QP work on my brand new V6000 Presario. I'm not sure wether it's even supposed to work on this model(or the european version at least).....but with the help of you Gurus :) I finally got it installed.
That registry modification made the difference. The only thing is, that when I try to boot to QP, it gives me the BSOD that Stimey has mentioned also.
When I boot my computer normally, it goes to XP as supposed.

AmigaDude.....you mentioned something about SATA disk causing the problem.....I've got on of those.

So, I'll just continue reading your posts in hope for solution....

[stimey]

The only reason I can fathom for your continuing problems is that you have a SATA drive, and QP2.1 does not have drivers included in the Embedded configuration.
Yep, i think i got a sata hd in this one.
So time to put in some sata support on the QP partion somehow.
Another task to kill some spare time :)
I wonder if i can just bung the drivers from the normal xp into the drivercache folder or something.
Will give it a try, we're getting closer and closer.

[AmigaDude]

Yep, i think i got a sata hd in this one.
So time to put in some sata support on the QP partion somehow.
Another task to kill some spare time :)
I wonder if i can just bung the drivers from the normal xp into the drivercache folder or something.
Will give it a try, we're getting closer and closer.
Well, according to this thread -> http://www.notebookforums.com/thread177332.html , it looks like QP2.3 is out for the DV200t. Since this machine has a SATA drive, it implies that QP2.3 has SATA support builtin. You might want to try coaxing someone to upload QP2.3 instead of wasting time trying to trick Embedded to do anything. (I've been trying and it's not easy...)

Now that I think about it, almost any of the newer machines (2000t, 6000t, 9000t, etc..) have SATA drives and should come with QP2.3 so.....

[stimey]

Ah, let's hope someone with QP2.3 installations file can and will upload them :P

[PSG22]

Ah, let's hope someone with QP2.3 installations file can and will upload them :P

I've been gone for quite some time and there's already a QuickPlay 2.3 :( ? Shows you how long I've been gone. From what I could find out about HP QuickPlay 2.3, it enables HD content to be played on the program and that it's available with Pavilion dv2000, dv6100 and the dv9100.

Scirwode

[huchris27]

Ah, let's hope someone with QP2.3 installations file can and will upload them :P

Where would one upload the QuickPlay 2.3 installation files? :ph34r:

[AmigaDude]

Where would one upload the QuickPlay 2.3 installation files? :ph34r:
If you can archive them into multiple files no larger than 250Mb, then http://www.depositfiles.com is an option that worked for me recently. Personally, I still use WinZip but any archive tool should work.

Anxiously awaiting something else to play with (QP2.3 :banana: )...

[huchris27]

For those of you who lost your copy of QuickPlay 2.3, I have uploaded a backup of the install files that came on my DV2000T.

download link (http://rapidshare.de/users/8E2OFS)

There are two folders:
QPW - QuickPlay in Windows
HPQPDP - DirectPlayadded 15 Oct 2006 - alternate download links:
file 1 of 9 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=0DRNRCYB)
file 2 of 9 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=RNTSAET9)
file 3 of 9 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=ARHCN650)
file 4 of 9 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=5URKUXFZ)
file 5 of 9 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=RQ5R886C)
file 6 of 9 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=11OMSX1D)
file 7 of 9 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=D2PYCTYV)
file 8 of 9 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=Q81YBE91)
file 9 of 9 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=GY4OU7SX)

[allmotoreg6]

For those of you who lost your copy of QuickPlay 2.3, I have uploaded a backup of the install files that came on my DV2000T.

download link (http://rapidshare.de/users/8E2OFS)

There are two folders:

QPW - QuickPlay in Windows
HPQPDP - DirectPlay
this guy has save my stress...i hated wactching dvds on windows media player..gonna have to make a disk with those files ..now i have to figure out why my itunes dont work ...btw im using windows xp wesmosis if anyone has heard of it

[mythos_bt]

For those of you who lost your copy of QuickPlay 2.3, I have uploaded a backup of the install files that came on my DV2000T.

download link (http://rapidshare.de/users/8E2OFS)

There are two folders:

QPW - QuickPlay in Windows
HPQPDP - DirectPlayThank you very much!I updated QP in windows and DirectPlay 2.0 on dv5247eu.

[zapp]

HP QuickPlay v1 Available for Download via BitTorrent network. :thumbup:

check out here: http://www.torrentbox.com/torrent_details?id=70484&edited=1

[AmigaDude]

HP QuickPlay v1 Available for Download via BitTorrent network. :thumbup:

check out here: http://www.torrentbox.com/torrent_details?id=70484&edited=1
Thanks!

It's (QPv1.2) also out there as a CD image download @ http://depositfiles.com/files/318013

[zapp]

QuickPlay from DV1000
http://depositfiles.com/en/files/318048

[zapp]

Thank you very much!I updated QP in windows and DirectPlay 2.0 on dv5247eu.

I wonder if Mythos_BT can make a torrent and share it with us. Anither way is to find out the name of the file or title of the CD/DVD that came with QP. Perhaps we can look it up on HP's FTP site. :)

No offence, but this rapid share is way to crazy.

If we share, we can all the have this toy!

[PSG22]

I don't know if anybody has notice it or not but you can actually update your HP QuickPlay 2.1 to 2.3 :dance2: ! Just open the HP QuickPlay program in Windows, navigate to QuickPlay Updates and you can find numerous updates to enhance your QuickPlay program, including new Skinpacks and Audio codecs :w00t: !

The Skinpacks contain two new skins, Digicode and Wavy, and they are quite nice :thumbup: ! Check it out and see if you have it or not :) .

Scirwode

[djmorgan]

Update 2.0 to 2.3 77+ meg :o

[vincesee]

I've just tried QuickPlay 2.3 installation on my Presario V3040TU. Everything went on well (with all those registry tweaks). Unfortunately, the laptop refuse to boot up after pressing the quickplay button. Even pressing it after powering up also didn't have any effect.

Did try boot.ini hack by manually adding in an option to boot the quickplay partition. No luck! Went into XP loading screen but fade to black and froze shortly after.

If anyone has a clue. Please do shed some light. I'm beginning to doubt it'll ever work on Presario V3000 (asian version).

Cheers!

[djmorgan]

I have just read as many of these 38 pages seeking help but no luck.

Since deleting the recovery partition and using Acronis TI which writes to the MBR I can't use the QP or DVD key when powered off.

I still get QP when in windows but not pre loading into full windows, the QP partition is still intact so I'm assuming the MBR is at fault....:closedeye

Should the QP partition also be an active partition?

any help :w00t:

[AmigaDude]

... I still get QP when in windows but not pre loading into full windows, the QP partition is still intact so I'm assuming the MBR is at fault....:closedeye

Should the QP partition also be an active partition?

NO. What is probably missing is the actual code that QP rewrites into the MBR. In a standard, working, QP2.x enabled MBR the partition table entry for WinXP is active and NTFS, while the QP partion is type 'D7' and NOT active. The MBR code temporarily rewrites the partition table to make the QP partition active if/when you start with a media key. Subsequent reboots undo this and set WinXP active again.

The easist way to get the correct MBR code is to reinstall QP2.x.

NOTE: vincesee the boot.ini will not work since QP2 direct (WinXP embedded) MUST think it is the only active partition (C: drive) when it boots. Thats what the MBR code is doing, while the boot.ini will just tell it to boot from the D: drive, for example.

[djmorgan]

I reinstalled QP2.3 from the files offered here, page 37 I think... I had to remove the existing partition but it went smooth from there, during the install I saw that SATA drivers were loaded into the partition, the only wiered thing was that the drivers for GO 7600 were loaded not my GO 7400, but everything works fine and the MBR was fixed so I have full functionality again :dance2:

[AmigaDude]

I don't know if anybody has notice it or not but you can actually update your HP QuickPlay 2.1 to 2.3 :dance2: ! Just open the HP QuickPlay program in Windows, navigate to QuickPlay Updates and you can find numerous updates to enhance your QuickPlay program, including new Skinpacks and Audio codecs :w00t: !

The Skinpacks contain two new skins, Digicode and Wavy, and they are quite nice :thumbup: ! Check it out and see if you have it or not :) .


Yes, I tried this and you are correct. During the install you can see it actually updating the QP Direct file system, and QP Windows code. However, for some strange reason after completing the updating the version numbers are not the same? (QP Windows = 2.3.xxx, QP/Direct = 2.1.xxx) go figure? :scratch: Anyways, the new skins are worth getting for 2.3 as well since they are not included.

BTW - Big thanks to huchris27 for posting the 2.3 files!

[djmorgan]

Yes, I tried this and you are correct. During the install you can see it actually updating the QP Direct file system, and QP Windows code. However, for some strange reason after completing the updating the version numbers are not the same? (QP Windows = 2.3.xxx, QP/Direct = 2.1.xxx) go figure? Anyways, the new skins are worth getting for 2.3 as well since they are not included.

You did something wrong! both parts have the same version number on mine :|

[huchris27]

The Skinpacks contain two new skins, Digicode and Wavy, and they are quite nice :thumbup: !
I personally really like the new Wavy skin. It matches the Imprint design on the shell of the DV2000T.

[Kookalooch]

I have been reading this topic for the past few days to figure out how to get QP working again on my DV8000. I, like many, reformatted my HD to remove the fluff that HP ships with a new laptop. I also made recovery CD's but it failed to make them properly. I recently reinstalled Windows XP Pro and partitioned the HD for the 1GB of space QP2 needs (I have a disc! :dude: ). After several attempts to load it using HP's instructions I gave up and did it my own way. I started the laptop in Safe Mode and installed the software. QuickPlay now works as it is intened to work. I do not boot up if all I want to do is play a DVD or CD.

[viajerozz]

Hi..very good forum and thread..I wish I had found it weeks ago as I happily blew off partitions and MBRs on my new HP dv6000 trying to re-install QuickPlay..:-) ANyway, I wonder if anyone has the answer to the question I first saw posed way back at the beginning of this thread..namely, after reinstalling QP (on unpartitioned 1024 mb free space) it works ok except does not enter the hibernation mode it is supposed to upon exit, instead gives the error "unable to reserve hiberfile error c000007f" ANyone have insight how I might get rid of this? I have reinstalled QP many times..the first few times with no problem but now it gives me this error and cant seem to get rid of..thanks for any help!

[Kookalooch]

Hi..very good forum and thread..I wish I had found it weeks ago as I happily blew off partitions and MBRs on my new HP dv6000 trying to re-install QuickPlay..:-) ANyway, I wonder if anyone has the answer to the question I first saw posed way back at the beginning of this thread..namely, after reinstalling QP (on unpartitioned 1024 mb free space) it works ok except does not enter the hibernation mode it is supposed to upon exit, instead gives the error "unable to reserve hiberfile error c000007f" ANyone have insight how I might get rid of this? I have reinstalled QP many times..the first few times with no problem but now it gives me this error and cant seem to get rid of..thanks for any help!


I had the same problem after a reinstall of QP until I unistalled it and reinstalled it in Safe Mode. Try that and see if it works.

[viajerozz]

Excellent! That did the trick..thanks for your help! (As a thanks..after exploring diff hard drive imaging programs all week..if you need one check the Paragon page..its excellent and FREE..wish I had found it before I spent 50 bucks on the Acronis one..probably not the right forum but I had to tell someone..ha)

[WeAreNotAlone]

For those of you who lost your copy of QuickPlay 2.3, I have uploaded a backup of the install files that came on my DV2000T.

download link (http://rapidshare.de/users/8E2OFS)

There are two folders:

QPW - QuickPlay in Windows
HPQPDP - DirectPlayadded 15 Oct 2006 - alternate download links:
file 1 of 9 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=0DRNRCYB)
file 2 of 9 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=RNTSAET9)
file 3 of 9 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=ARHCN650)
file 4 of 9 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=5URKUXFZ)
file 5 of 9 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=RQ5R886C)
file 6 of 9 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=11OMSX1D)
file 7 of 9 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=D2PYCTYV)
file 8 of 9 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=Q81YBE91)
file 9 of 9 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=GY4OU7SX)


First of all , thanks for uploading the above. Sure it will help alot of people. :thumbup:


For anyone that's having problems...
RapidShare links not showing #4, and #9...

So just download 4 & 9 from Mega and re-name.

Mega for some reason was allot faster than RapidShare...

[reeves]

I had the same problem after a reinstall of QP until I unistalled it and reinstalled it in Safe Mode. Try that and see if it works.

Oh, that did not the trick for me :huh: I still have the "unable to reserve hiberfile error c000007f" error (twice) when I've booted up the Quickplay 2.1 Direct. I've tried to install HPQPD in Safe mode but it still gives me the error message :blushing:

[Kookalooch]

Oh, that did not the trick for me :huh: I still have the "unable to reserve hiberfile error c000007f" error (twice) when I've booted up the Quickplay 2.1 Direct. I've tried to install HPQPD in Safe mode but it still gives me the error message :blushing:

Try version 2.3 of QuckPlay. If you need a copy I can send you mine or I can burn it.

[reeves]

Try version 2.3 of QuckPlay. If you need a copy I can send you mine or I can burn it.

Oh really ? That would be reaaaally nice. I have Quickplay 2.3 for Windows but my Quickplay Direct version is still 2.1 (that's the version that was in my SW_Setup folder)... But I don't think you could send it to me as it must be ~400Mb no ??

[Kookalooch]

Oh really ? That would be reaaaally nice. I have Quickplay 2.3 for Windows but my Quickplay Direct version is still 2.1 (that's the version that was in my SW_Setup folder)... But I don't think you could send it to me as it must be ~400Mb no ??

QP 2.3 requires 1024MB of a partitioned HD. I think QP 2.1 does as well so if you have the HD partitioned already it should work. I'll attempt to burn a disc for you but if that doesn't work I'll send you the original. I'll have to get it back from you though. ;) :)

[reeves]

QP 2.3 requires 1024MB of a partitioned HD. I think QP 2.1 does as well so if you have the HD partitioned already it should work. I'll attempt to burn a disc for you but if that doesn't work I'll send you the original. I'll have to get it back from you though. ;) :)

You're really nice. So bad HP doesn't allow us to download this from the website or wherever...

Tell me if it's burnable and next by PM ;-) THANKS !!!

[Kookalooch]

You're really nice. So bad HP doesn't allow us to download this from the website or wherever...

Tell me if it's burnable and next by PM ;-) THANKS !!!

Ok...I made s light error. I have the Qp 2.0 disc. I installe dit in Safe Mode and upgraded to 2.3 through HP's updating program. Had a slight brain fart there for a moment.

[reeves]

Ok...I made s light error. I have the Qp 2.0 disc. I installe dit in Safe Mode and upgraded to 2.3 through HP's updating program. Had a slight brain fart there for a moment.

Ok, so you were talking about Quickplay 2.3 WINDOWS, not DIRECT.. :(

How can we upgrade Quickplay DIRECT ?

[1Xtra]

Firstly :bow: to everyne involved, good job guys keep it goin.

I bought my HP pavilion dv6011ea (with a remote control and F10 BIOS) a week or two ago in Austria so it came with German OS, since i wanted it English and get rid of all the c*** installed with HP recovery, i earased all the partitions:$ . Thats when i noticed that there is no QP support online.:thumbdown

Found this thread. :thumbup: Read it for past few days, downloaded the files.Deleted everything, made 1 partition(left only 1028MB unpartitioned), installed windows, installed HPQPDP, installed QPW, installed the drivers, repartitioned the partition previously made with Partition magic, installed all the apps, updated QP to 2.3 3229..

and voila - everything works corectly :dance2:

If anyone has the 1280x800 hp imprint wallpaper which came with laptop please contact me i would love to get it back,

thanks,
1Xtra

Btw reeves this files should work, they did for me..

For those of you who lost your copy of QuickPlay 2.3, I have uploaded a backup of the install files that came on my DV2000T.

download link (http://rapidshare.de/users/8E2OFS)

There are two folders:
QPW - QuickPlay in Windows
HPQPDP - DirectPlayadded 15 Oct 2006 - alternate download links:
file 1 of 9 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=0DRNRCYB)
file 2 of 9 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=RNTSAET9)
file 3 of 9 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=ARHCN650)
file 4 of 9 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=5URKUXFZ)
file 5 of 9 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=RQ5R886C)
file 6 of 9 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=11OMSX1D)
file 7 of 9 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=D2PYCTYV)
file 8 of 9 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=Q81YBE91)
file 9 of 9 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=GY4OU7SX)

[desotelle]

I just bought a dv1000. I downloaded the QP 1.3 files from this thread and was able to get Quickplay to work on a newly formated machine running windows XP Pro. I am curious if anyone has had any luck upgrading to 2.3 on the dv1000 (not dv1000t). I read a lot of post were people were doing various things, but wonder if anyone was successful, and if so, is it worth the time. This is a new install, and reformating is not a problem. Suggestions?

[1Xtra]

Why wouldnt you try installing QP 2.3 files in first place, since they are avalible?

[desotelle]

Why wouldnt you try installing QP 2.3 files in first place, since they are avalible?
I tried that, but it said it couldn't install. So I just installed 1.3. But then I was reading this thread and seemed like some had jimmy-rigged it to work. With 39 pages of posts, I couldn't find straight forward steps to do that. So, I was wondering if someone had a summary to do this.

[1Xtra]

Deleted everything, made 1 partition(left only 1028MB unpartitioned), installed windows, installed HPQPDP, installed QPW, installed the drivers, repartitioned the partition previously made with Partition magic, installed all the apps, updated QP to 2.3 3229..

and voila - everything works corectly :dance2:

Check out whats the QP partition size, becouse as i remeber the QP 1.x only consumed somewhere around 300MB. If thats the case, make a fresh format and leave 1028MB of free space(i left it unpartitioned, like i said before, i only made one partition out of all the other space and repartitioned it later, someone mentioned that it should be done like that, thou im not sure) and try installing QP than...

[AmigaDude]

tsk, tsk, tsk, ... too lazy to read and memorize 39 pages...:closedeye

OK, here you go .. the easy foolproof (well, almost) method of getting QP working on a DV1000 so you can report back what you like or dislike.

What you need:

DV1000 (of course) with WinXP CD
Quickplay 1.20 CD ( can be downloaded above )
Quickplay 1.30 patch ( can be downloaded from HP )
Quickplay 2.3 Files ( can be downloaded above )
Hardisk formatted with only 1 Partition C: of WinXP (Pro or Home) and at least 1.30 GB free spaceWhat you do:

Get WinXP Installed, patched, etc.. to your liking and take a BACKUP
Boot from Quickplay 1.2 CD and install Quickplay
Boot WinXP and Install Quickplay 1.30 Patch
Install Registry Update - ( see below )
Install Quickplay/Windows 2.30 ( QPW\Setup.exe )
Install Quickplay/Direct 2.30 ( HPQPDP\Setup.exe )
Reboot as requested to Auto-complete Quickplay 2.30 setup
Will autoreboot back to Windows, so Shutdown NotebookTesting QP (From power off)
QP1.30 - Hit any Media key and QP1.30 should start

QP2.30 - Hit the Power key, pause 1/2 second then any Media key and QP2.3 should start

Install QP Registry Update by creating a text file and putting these lines into it:
REGEDIT4
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\QPFlag]
"QPFlag"=dword:00000003
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\QPFlag]
"QPPlatform"="DV1000"

Save the file as something.reg, i.e. QPFlag.Reg
Right-click on the file and select MERGE

OR

Install the entries manually using Regedit ( upper/lower case is important )

[desotelle]

I really appreciate the posting of the above directions. With that, I followed them to the letter and here is what I encountered. When I reboot, I got the Blue Screen. The reason is the quickplay becomes the active partition. I changed windows back to the active but then it reports something to the effect of a hardware failure (don't recall exactly). When I completely delete the new quickplay partion I am able to boot back into windows. I tried repeating the process a couple of times with the same results.

Good News is, it did allow me to install quickplay 2.3 (as before it said it could not). Bad news is it wouldn't let me boot to it. 1.3 still works just fine though.

Any thoughts?

[nwnc]

Good afternoon guys,

Just checkin' in and say hello, I'm new here.
This thread is indeed very usefull for me and my DV1625TS.

Thanks a LOT for the informations.
Keep this up!

[AmigaDude]

... When I reboot, I got the Blue Screen. The reason is the quickplay becomes the active partition. I changed windows back to the active but then it reports something to the effect of a hardware failure (don't recall exactly)...

Since the World Series is over :thumbdown I had a little time on my hands last night. So, I deleted all partitions except WinXP, then followed the steps I gave above. (already had the registry fix, so no need for that) It worked perfectly, and QP2.3 is playing as I type. Something is obviously different with your setup, (even though I once had a similar problem but don't remember what I could've done to fix it??)

IF you have a good backup and some time, then here is one possible suggestion:

- Reinstall QP2.3 and stop at the point where it asks you to reboot.
- Leave that prompt window open, and move it out of your way
- Right-Click on My Computer and select Manage
- Select Disk Management from the new window
- Disk 0 should show the following, left to right:
(1) WinXP partition
(2) Uknown Partition ~200mb (this is QP1.30)
<possible free space>
(3) Uknown Partition ~1GB (this is QP2.3)

- Right-Click on the QP2.3 (last) partition and select "Change Drive letter..." and assign drive letter Y to it.
- Save , exit to Win desktop
- Use Explorer go to the Y:\ drive and open the boot.ini file
Post back with the boot.ini contents from your C: and Y: drives, just in case ..
- Ensure it says boot from partition 3, change both lines if neccessary
i.e. default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(3)\WINDOWS
- Save the file and exit.
- Go back and UNDO the drive mapping for Y:

Now you can respond OK to the request for a reboot that is sitting there, and hopefully it boots into QP2.3 to finish installing. If it fails again make note of that error message you said you got.

[deltaboy]

for all the lazy people... this is my homage to all the hard work on this forum on this particular topic. i have consolidated links to all available QuickPlay files anyone may need.

thanks again all!

http://www.dv1000forums.com/viewtopic.php?t=1954

[inirudebwoy]

Hi

Could someone upload quickplay 2.3 or 2.1 to some more friendly site? that megaupload is horrible. I`m not gonna pay for a premium i cannot use free option cause they have connection limits. Torrent would be great thing. Really.
RapidShare is good but it`s missing two files.

thank you

[najderr]

QuickPlay from DV1000
http://depositfiles.com/en/files/318048
Could you reupload it to rapidshare or yousendit? I can't get it from deposit..
Thanks in advance

[deltaboy]

uploading (2.3 and then 2.1)...

[deltaboy]

for all the lazy people... this is my homage to all the hard work on this forum on this particular topic. i have consolidated links to all available QuickPlay files anyone may need.

thanks again all!

http://www.dv1000forums.com/viewtopic.php?t=1954 i forgot its a registered only forum...


Quickplay v2.3:
1 of 9: http://www.sendspace.com/file/0g0b78
2 of 9: http://www.sendspace.com/file/k67vvb
3 of 9: http://www.sendspace.com/file/f1held
4 of 9: http://www.sendspace.com/file/232rok
5 of 9: http://www.sendspace.com/file/w7o0ol
6 of 9: http://www.sendspace.com/file/k9h4fe
7 of 9: http://www.sendspace.com/file/ug2vub
8 of 9: http://www.sendspace.com/file/lg3syk
9 of 9: http://www.sendspace.com/file/wvdr1u

Quickplay v2.1:
part 1: http://depositfiles.com/files/151944...part1.rar.html
part 2: http://depositfiles.com/files/152161/HPQPDP.part2.rar.html
part 3: http://depositfiles.com/files/152160/HPQPDP.part3.rar.html
QPW:
http://depositfiles.com/en/files/295897

Quickplay v2.0:
http://up-file.com/download/e699b0734098/QuickPlay-2.0.zip.html
QPW:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=QB07T5IM
or http://www.megaupload.com/?d=77K1YBL9

Quickplay v1.2:
http://depositfiles.com/en/files/318013

Quickplay v1.0:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=QVE3S9PU

Quickplay for DV1000:
http://depositfiles.com/en/files/318048

[JasonDv6000]

I posted this elsewhere and got no reply but i think maybe this thread is more appropriate. Does anyone know if its possible to get USB speakers to work with quickplay direct? They work fine in quickplay and everything when windows is running, but when i start quickplay without booting windows it only uses the onboard audio.

[cktc]

Hi all,

I'm not sure this is the right place to ask, but...

I've been assembling a new HTPC and I was wondering wether it is possible to install QPlay (any version) or any similar software in a platform different from HP Laptops and allow me to watch DVD's without having to fully boot the machine into Windows MCE.

Thanks and regards

[AmigaDude]

JasonDv6000 - If you look back a few pages in this thread (I think), you will see that someone posted how they were able to load a DIVX driver, by doing some trickery. Theoretically you could try something similar and just might get it to work. However, chances of screwing up the load are very high, so try at your own risk!

cktc - I'm not sure what you really want to accomplish, but consider this - Quickplay 2.x is Windows XP Embedded, which is essentially WinXP stripped down to the essentials so that it boots faster and has less chances for the user to muck it up. Most HTPC builders just do the same thing themselves by stripping out unneccessary things and either using MCE or plain XP with a front-end (of which there are a lot to choose). If you look over at hometheaterforum you can find the latest and greatest front-end users I'm sure. If you don't want an HTPC but just QP functionality on a non-HP laptop then you still need another program since QP has only certain HP drivers builtin and no easy way to add more.

This is an old story but still relevant - http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,1376545,00.asp

[Braden87]

Hi,
thanks very much for people who went to trouble of uploading QP2.3 for us :D :D

However, I am getting a CRC error on part 8 hence no data3.cab file... have tried downloading this one multiple times from megaupload, sendspace, and rapidshare mirrors... i get a CRC on all of them. Can someone please re-post a part8 that extracts properly or email me at braden.ackerman at g mail dot com


thanks much!

edit: actually not sure if its part 8 that is the problem, winrar says CRC fail in 8.... at any rate im missing data3.cab can somebody pretty please re-post/re-upload it ty

[JasonDv6000]

Does anyone know if its actually possible to access the quickplay partition? I know it has a drivers folder like windows.. It has to, since it must have audio and video drivers plus the driver for my wireless usb mouse. if i could just get in there and copy one file... (usbaudio.sys.) i think is the driver for usb speakers.

[wrong un]

I cannot boot up QuickPlay without Windows booting up. When I press the QP or DVD button when my DV2123 is off it just simply loads windows as usual. Does anyone know why this could be occuring?

[Braden87]

I cannot boot up QuickPlay without Windows booting up. When I press the QP or DVD button when my DV2123 is off it just simply loads windows as usual. Does anyone know why this could be occuring?

Yea, you don't have quickplay.... :P ... :S ... :(


anyone got an answer to my post that's 3 up? ^^^ :O :)

[glauber.herbert]

Hi guys!!
I have a DV9000T that came with QuickPlay 2.3.
When I reinstall the machine, I forgot to save the partitions.
Now, I'm trying to install again the QuickPlay Direct 2.3 in my laptop.
But, when I try to install, I get always the same error code : -2147418113
I already followed all the guides here, but none worked for me.
My configuration is the following below:
Patition 1 - C: ( Windows XP )
Rest of the disk - Unllocated

I already try with QuickPlay 2.1 and 2.3, that I download here in the post.
Somebody can help me??

Thanks a lot!
Glauber

PS: Sorry about the english ( I'm a brazilian guy )

[djmorgan]

I cannot boot up QuickPlay without Windows booting up. When I press the QP or DVD button when my DV2123 is off it just simply loads windows as usual. Does anyone know why this could be occuring?

You have some how re-writen the MBR - Master Boot Record, that will go to the QP partition when you press the media keys.

Only way to fix this is to remove QP and then reload from scratch so that QP writes the correct MBR

[jgibbons72]

Wow, just want to thank everyone like AmigaDude and DeltaBoy and countless others for doing HPs job and helping me legitimately get Quickplay 2.3 back on my dv2050. I got pretty much everything working except for the strangest little thing. I press the quicklaunch button when the computer's off and everything starts up just fine. QP will then play my music and DVDs, etc, but it won't do so at a volume greater than 10. I can cycle between 0 and 10, and that's it. This problem doesn't occur in the Windows part of QP.

I originally installed the Windows part first, then the Direct portion, and this happened. So I re-installed the Quicklaunch drivers which I had originally installed before everything else, but the problem persisted. So I deleted the Direct partition and re-installed it, and the same thing occurs.

Has anyone else experienced this? Thanks again, you haven't any idea how much I appreciate it.

[AmigaDude]

... QP will then play my music and DVDs, etc, but it won't do so at a volume greater than 10. I can cycle between 0 and 10, and that's it.
Strange .. I just retried my DV1000 and it goes in increments of 10, from 0 to 100.

- Do the Volume Bars increment past the first one?
- Can you increase past 10 by clicking the mouse on the speaker icons, instead of the volume keys?

FYI - The QP Direct is a self-contained install so it has NO relationship with anything else you do or don't install. So, QP Windows and Quicklaunch have nothing to do with it.

[glauber.herbert]

Let try to explain what´s going on in my isntallation...
I renamed my DVDROM to X: drive letter, and in the installation of QuickPlay, it creates a 1GB partition. rename it to X: , and copy all the files of Quickplay.
When you restart the computer, the installation finish in the MSDOS mode.
I only rename my DVDROM to Z: , and the installation finish sucefull!!!

If somebody have the same error code that mine ( -2147418113 ), try to do this, I thinks that´s will work!!

Glauber

[jgibbons72]

Strange .. I just retried my DV1000 and it goes in increments of 10, from 0 to 100.

- Do the Volume Bars increment past the first one?
- Can you increase past 10 by clicking the mouse on the speaker icons, instead of the volume keys?

Yeah, the Windows Quickplay works in exactly that manner, but QP Direct jumps from 0 to 10, with nothing in between. So the 10 volume is basically inaudible, in fact, I don't think I can hear it at all. I'll investigate that further with a good pair of headphones. It does this whether I use the remote, the buttons on the laptop itself, or try click on the volume icon with the mouse. Also, I got the latest update through QP Windows, but this doesn't have anything to do with QP Direct, and to my recollection, it did this before and after I updated, so it shouldn't be an issue.

If I try reinstalling again, are there any particular steps I should take other than simply deleting the partition and reinstalling? Thanks again.

[AmigaDude]

... Also, I got the latest update through QP Windows, but this doesn't have anything to do with QP Direct, and to my recollection, it did this before and after I updated, so it shouldn't be an issue.

If I try reinstalling again, are there any particular steps I should take other than simply deleting the partition and reinstalling? Thanks again.

I found that the QP Update does in fact update the QP Direct installation, sort of. When I first did the update, I thought like you that it just ignored the Direct installation since it was not auto updated. It's been awhile since I did it, but I think what I had to do was force the Direct install to not Resume from Hibernation. Hit the F8 key while starting QP Direct to bring up the WinXP menu and select Delete Restoration, or something like that, then it actually says that it is updating the QP files.

As for reinstalling, nothing to do except delete the partion and rerun install. (actually, you could skip the partition delete, but why bother..) It really is a self-contained install so it ignores everything except the install files (and some registry entries which guide the installer).

One thought process for your troubles is that the installer has to figure out which machine you have so that it installs the correct video and Audio drivers. I guess it is possible that it is selecting the wrong machine type.

What is your System Board ID from the Bios screen? Should be 4 characters like 30AE.

[jgibbons72]

One thought process for your troubles is that the installer has to figure out which machine you have so that it installs the correct video and Audio drivers. I guess it is possible that it is selecting the wrong machine type.

What is your System Board ID from the Bios screen? Should be 4 characters like 30AE.

Well, I checked out the board ID number and it's 30B2. I also verified that I'm pretty sure no sound at all is coming, as I used a good pair of headphones and I couldn't hear a thing.

I'll check out the stuff related to updating and reinstalling this weekend and see what happens.

Thanks again for all your help.

[furtadohp]

Can someone re-upload the QPW 2.1???

The link
QPW:
http://depositfiles.com/en/files/295897

Doesnt work anymore

Thanks

[ArcCoyote]

QuickPlay Direct 2.x can be reinstalled on Vista. You'll need to burn a DVD of SwSetup before wiping the factory load. I'd recommend creating the Recovery DVDs so you can safely remove the hp_recovery partition as well. Leave the QPD partition alone or leave space for it during the Vista installation (although Vista can resize partitions!) Also, the QPD partition MUST be the 2nd primary partition, so if you are creating multiple partitions make one primary, and the rest extended/logical.

After installing Vista, go into Disk Management. If necessary, create a 1GB (1028 MB) primary partition and format it NTFS. Assign the drive letter X: to the QP partition. That's the trick. The HPQPDP Setup can't create the volume, so you have to do it, and it has to be X:

Run \SwSetup\HPQPDP\setup.exe. If it bombs with a ComponentMoveError, there's something wrong with the X: drive (wrong letter or not formatted?). If setup completes, the X: drive will disappear. Restart and the machine should boot into QPD to finish setup.

FYI, QuickPlay Direct 2.0 is 100% compatible with the Vista's MBR. These steps should also work on any version of XP.

[WeAreNotAlone]

Ran accross this in another thread. Might help so I'm reposting it here

http://www.notebookforums.com/post2501281-3.html


not enough space in QP part
Quote:
Originally Posted by seaside1982
After reading so many posts, thanks all. I finally get me XP pro work. However, when I change to the QP 2.0 by pushing the sensor DVD/QP. I loaded sucessfully,but give out the following error before the QP menue comes out.
"unable to reserve hiberfile error:c0000"



Was that full error code c000007f? That usually means "DISK FULL"

I got it after recreating the QP partition from Vista.

Boot to windows, open disk management, and assign a drive letter (I used X:) to the 1GB Quickplay volume. Enable "show hidden files" and "show critical system files" in folder options. Browse it from explorer and see if there are any temp files taking up space. If there's a (hidden) hiberfil.sys, delete it. When you are done, remove the drive letter from the volume so nothing messes with it.

[ArcCoyote]

Ran accross this in another thread. Might help so I'm reposting it here

http://www.notebookforums.com/post2501281-3.html


not enough space in QP part
Quote:
Originally Posted by seaside1982
After reading so many posts, thanks all. I finally get me XP pro work. However, when I change to the QP 2.0 by pushing the sensor DVD/QP. I loaded sucessfully,but give out the following error before the QP menue comes out.
"unable to reserve hiberfile error:c0000"


I updated my fix for that, because you CAN'T assign a drive latter after QPD install completes.

[Aremith]

Hi. I was looking at a Compaq laptop at a store which had Quickplay for Windows, and liked the UI (Especially its simplicity). Unfortunately, I have an Acer Laptop. Is it possible to install the Quickplay Windows Software (Not Direct) on it? If it is, will everything work?

[WeAreNotAlone]

I updated my fix for that, because you CAN'T assign a drive latter after QPD install completes.

So is this the updated info?

http://www.notebookforums.com/post2501281-3.html

[modemboy]

So I'll be getting an hp notebook soon, it's on order. I was reading up and came across this thread. Glad to see this being done. Let me help out by giving you all some real hosting for these files:

http://ridickulous.net/quickplay/

I have 2.3 in there now, I'll add more if people request it. I have 2 terabytes of bandwidth a month so hopefully you all can't swamp it. Happy downloading.

[Ericko]

So I'll be getting an hp notebook soon, it's on order. I was reading up and came across this thread. Glad to see this being done. Let me help out by giving you all some real hosting for these files:

http://ridickulous.net/quickplay/

I have 2.3 in there now, I'll add more if people request it. I have 2 terabytes of bandwidth a month so hopefully you all can't swamp it. Happy downloading.
WoW! That's good. It's been ages since the last time I wrote a message here. I'm really happy this thread is helping people deal with QuickPlay, and I'm happy you are helping with the hosting!

[ilyeah]

So I'll be getting an hp notebook soon, it's on order. I was reading up and came across this thread. Glad to see this being done. Let me help out by giving you all some real hosting for these files:

http://ridickulous.net/quickplay/

I have 2.3 in there now, I'll add more if people request it. I have 2 terabytes of bandwidth a month so hopefully you all can't swamp it. Happy downloading.

hi! sorry for my english couse i'm fom russia ;)

i'v been download all parts and when i unrar i'v got error message in part7: CRC failed in 'HPQPDP/data2.cab' File is broken

any ideas?

[modemboy]

hi! sorry for my english couse i'm fom russia ;)

i'v been download all parts and when i unrar i'v got error message in part7: CRC failed in 'HPQPDP/data2.cab' File is broken

any ideas?

Same thing happened to me with every source I downloaded from. If someone can get me a good set I will replace them, Sorry...

[jharrison]

sorry to tell you guys, the quick play 2 is for the new notebooks, i. e if you did have the restore cds for a newer note book say dv8000, or dv9000 series, it would not work be cause it would not detect the newer style quick play button unit, and yes you would have to erease the boot drive, make a 1 GB partion, then the software restore would make the date/os partion and the restore partion., and yes the quick play software is a mini linux install, sorry

[Perl]

hi! sorry for my english couse i'm fom russia ;)

i'v been download all parts and when i unrar i'v got error message in part7: CRC failed in 'HPQPDP/data2.cab' File is broken

any ideas?

too.........

! H:\Quickplay 2.3\QP23.part07.rar: Packed data CRC failed in HPQPDP\data4.cab. The volume is corrupt
! H:\Quickplay 2.3\QP23.part08.rar: CRC failed in HPQPDP\data4.cab. The file is corrupt
! H:\Quickplay 2.3\QP23.part09.rar: CRC failed in QPW\data2.cab. The file is corrupt



can you have the better source ? :(
i'm need it to use for install my dv2107tx :huh:
i'm can't download from other like free store hosting like rapid,mega or any because my country are use slot full always


or anyone have ideas to fix this error ?
thanks..........

[CyberManiaK]

Well let me know if somebody still need this Directorys


C:\SWSetup\HPQPDP (715 MB)
C:\SWSetup\QPW (76.8 MB)

As i can see on my dv2120us. Both refer to Quickplay 2.3 version. Just let me know and i will be happy to rar that stuff and upload it somewhere.

Cheers

[rapersonal]

Well let me know if somebody still need this Directorys


C:\SWSetup\HPQPDP (715 MB)
C:\SWSetup\QPW (76.8 MB)

As i can see on my dv2120us. Both refer to Quickplay 2.3 version. Just let me know and i will be happy to rar that stuff and upload it somewhere.

Cheers


Hello Friend,
Can you please upload the those files for me please!!
I dont have any copy of those files..As my C drive was wiped out due to a mistake

[CyberManiaK]

Hello Friend,
Can you please upload the those files for me please!!
I dont have any copy of those files..As my C drive was wiped out due to a mistake

Sure I will upload those tonight .. Are 8 files of 96mb each and the last one of 9 mb. I will upload them to megaupload.

[rapersonal]

Thanks a lot!
I would be really glad to complete this

[rapersonal]

hello Digg
thanks for the quick reply.
i really appreciate ur help!
Thanks a lot again!
I eagerly await for your post!

[CyberManiaK]

Well here are the files.

http://www.megaupload.com/es/?d=0YF610CB
http://www.megaupload.com/es/?d=KDG1U81H
http://www.megaupload.com/es/?d=9L5LBAH9
http://www.megaupload.com/es/?d=OAFK6CJ3
http://www.megaupload.com/es/?d=HWSLUZIU
http://www.megaupload.com/es/?d=U1DX1XQH
http://www.megaupload.com/es/?d=Z71POIP9
http://www.megaupload.com/es/?d=4V9I7K6F
http://www.megaupload.com/es/?d=3TYPR0P3

Let me know if you have any problem with any file..

[rapersonal]

Thanks a lot!!
Just started downloading..!
I really appriciate your help.
Tx

[metamorph]

Thanks a lot!!
Just started downloading..!
I really appriciate your help.
Tx
Same things as the other uploaded QP23 rar, HPQPDP/data2.cab has a CRC error. I'm beginning to wonder if that particular file has some bit pattern in it that megaupload filters for and damages. Could someone upload just HPQPDP/data2.cab, or perhaps send it to modemboy so he could host it? Much thanks!

[metamorph]

Has anyone seen the error "$Macro Vision Fail!" when they try to play a DVD in QuickPlay Direct? If so, how did you fix it?

[Riddick]

Hi Guys!

Brilliant Forum here before I say anything else, has been really helpful getting me started and now onto the problem

I have just tried updating QuickPlay and QuickPlay Direct from version 2.0 to 2.3 on my HP dv8295ea laptop
I was able to install Quick Play (for Windows) and that works fine however when I try to install Quick Play Direct it always gets to a certain point (when it seems to be installing NAMSetup.exe) when it stops and comes up with the following error:
- ComponentMoveData had the following error:
- Component: QuickPlay COmponent
File Group:
File:
Error Number: -2147418113

My Laptop has Dual Hard Disks but disabling the second one doesn't fix the issue nor does removing the QuickPlay partition.
I'm out of ideas... any suggestions?

Riddick

P.S. Anyone know why WinRar tells me that Data2.cab is corrupt yet 7Zip merely lists it as broken... from both Download Sources

[Toxico]

P.S. Anyone know why WinRar tells me that Data2.cab is corrupt yet 7Zip merely lists it as broken... from both Download Sources
I think a lot of us are getting the same error. Someone requested a link to just the data2.cab file.

I'm a moron and, in trying to reclaim as much HDD space as possible (I'm anal like that), I deleted both the recovery partition and the "inexplicable" and "unpartitioned" 1GB volume without realizing it was the QP partition. :censored: I am considering biting the bullet and buying the CD from HP since all other paths are thus far leading to a dead end, and I don't have the HPQPDP folder on my drive.

Also, can anyone tell me why is there no data3.cab? Is this normal?

[KwayZeeyT]

First of all, thank you everyone for your time and effort in making right what HP should have done in the first place. I just purchased a refurbished dv4000 (p/n in sig) which came loaded with QP2.0, which coincidently did not work out of the box. (I also made a set of repair disks which my computer says are not the correct ones for this model…lol)

I’ve tried to install QP2.1 three times; first I got the blue screens mentioned earlier, and the second and third install I got the black screen and then freeze condition. Neither time could I start QP with QP buttons. Actually after I installed QP2.1 Direct (the second time), I had the boot select screen come up with a Windows XP embedded option.

Also of interest, my laptop came loaded with BIOS F.15, which I can't find anything about.

I want to try QP2.3, but I am having the same problem with the Data2.cab reading as corrupt. If you look at the file in WinRAR program, it reads the size as 298,115,072 but the packed size is 600,092,706. Has anyone uploaded the Data2.cab file?

[linusl]

I found this thread very useful for getting info about how Quickplay 2 works. I spent some hours figuring how to get my HP DV8357ea to work properly with Quickplay, Linux and WinXP. Now that I have the system working properly, I wanted to share my experience with you:

In my case, I have Windows XP installed on the primary HD and Linux on the secondary (actually, just on part of it, an extended partition). XP came preinstalled, after that i installed Mandriva Linux, which by default installed its boot-loader LILO in the Master Boot Record (MBR). Of course, this made QuickPlay Direct unusable, since the program that starts it resides in MBR and was overwritten by LILO. I found two ways to make it work:

1) The simple way
This will also work on systems with just one Hard drive (provided the QP Direct partition is in place). Two things must be done in Linux. First, use fdisk to change the QP Direct's type from D7 to 07 (zero seven): fdisk /dev/hda. In Fdisk's menu, 'p' prints the partition table. Use 't' to change the type and 'w' to write the changes to the partition table. Note that this will make the QP partition visible in Windows, since the MBR program no longer automagically changes it back upon booting. The second thing to do is to add an entry for Quick Play Direct in the LILO boot menu. Editing /etc/lilo.conf you can just copy the regular XP entry and change the partition number and boot menu name for the entry. That's all and it makes it possible to boot QuickPlay from the menu (but pressing the QP buttons on the computer will not work for direct access to QP). I use LILO, but the same thing can be done with GRUB as far as I see.

2) The complicated but more fulfilling way
To make the QP buttons on the keyboard work, we need to have the QP MBR program present. But LILO the Linux boot-loader usually also resides there. The solution is that LILO does not need to reside in the MBR, but can be installed in the Linux root drive's boot sector. If Linux is installed in the primary hard disk (for example in a 1 HDD-system), just making sure that the Linux installer writes the boot loader on the boot sector, not the MBR should keep everything working straight out of the box (I haven't tested this).

What's complicated is if Linux resides in the secondary hard disk. To make that work, we need to do a number of things. In short, to access the Linux system, a Linux entry is added into the Windows XP boot menu. The LILO -M option is used to create an MBR for the secondary disk, which will boot from the boot sector of the first active partition on the secondary HDD. The MBR is actually copied into the file that the Linux boot entry points to. I used the following excellent instructions to achieve this:

http://highlandsun.com/hyc/linuxboot.html

Note: if the root partition is an extended partition, for example /dev/hdb5, the keyword ext needs to be added to LILO's -M option (see the LILO man page).

At this point, I had LILO BOTH in the MBR and in the Linux root partition of the secondary HDD. Now, to make QPD work, I installed the QP Direct MBR by issuing the command 'mbrinst.exe /ini mbr.ini' from the QP Direct partition in WinXP (I had made the drive visible by changing its type from D7 to 07 with fdisk in Linux). This brought up a menu with some nice options, I left everything at default values, although for example the Stealth options seem to imply that the type-switching, which hides the QPD partition, can be disabled. It worked like a charm. The result is a boot with two menu levels: first the Windows XP boot menu, then, if Linux entry is chosen from that menu, the LILO menu with options for booting Linux (or back to Windows again...). The QP Direct buttons work as they shold, booting straight into Windows XP Embedded/Quickplay.

Note: when fiddling around with the MBR, keep a rescue disk handy so you can go boot your system and change things back if something goes wrong.

I hope this information is of some use to you. Also, I have a question: has anyone tried installing both QP 1.x and QP Direct 2.x on the same computer? I downloaded the files for QP 1.x here, but haven't tried the installation yet - I am not even sure if it supports my system. So, what are the caveats of having both QPs on the same system?

[AmigaDude]

Great work linusl!

I have'nt been checking lately and come back to see that someone has made some progress. Anways, to answer your question, yes I have QP1 and QP2 on the same machine (DV1350 or something like that). It probably will NOT work on your machine, and here's why (going from memory, so bear with me):

For QP1.x, on a default DV1xxx machine, pressing a QP key to start results in the Bios looking for a Linux type 88 partition in the 2nd slot of the partition table. If found, it jumps to (somewhere within) what appears to be a GRUB stage 1.5 loader that is embedded in the boot sector of that partition. Note that it does not jump to the start of that sector, since that is non-executable code in the first 512+ bytes.

QP2.x, as you know, can be in any partition and the MBR code just swaps those type codes around to have it think it is THE boot partition. In fact, it will not start unless it is the primary boot partition since the WinPE environment is coded that way. Pressing a QP key on a machine with a Bios that supports QP2.x results in a special key code being passed to the MBR code, so it can then do it's magic.

So, for QP1.x type machines, the QP keys can boot into the QP1.x environment, but getting into QP2.x environments requires sequentially pressing two keys (Power -> QP) and even then is not 100% consistent. In a QP2.x machine, like yours, I don't see how you would get an updated bios to even attempt to boot the QP1.x environment. So far I cannot find a consistent way of having the MBR code jump into the QP1.x environment either, since it has some GRUB assumptions that I've not located.

Hope this makes sense.

[linusl]

Thanks for the info, AmigaDude!
From your description, it does sound like QP 1.x will not work on my machine - unless someone has found a way of making it install and boot on computers without the QP BIOS support. Oh well, it doesn't matter, one QP is enough.

[padawan]

hey everyone, this is my first post here, and first would like to thank everyone for contributing to this thread. I have spent a couple hours now reading through this thread looking for a working link to download quickplay 2.0 and have not yet found one. I found many that are old links with the download no longer active. It is possible i missed some posts because it would take way too long to read all the 40 something pages here.

sooo, could anyone please direct me to where i can download QP 2.0? sorry if this has been asked a million times already. Perhaps someone who was able to download qp from one of the earlier uploaded ones could reupload it somewhere so that we have an active link?

thanks so much for all the help here!

[padawan]

So I'll be getting an hp notebook soon, it's on order. I was reading up and came across this thread. Glad to see this being done. Let me help out by giving you all some real hosting for these files:

http://ridickulous.net/quickplay/

I have 2.3 in there now, I'll add more if people request it. I have 2 terabytes of bandwidth a month so hopefully you all can't swamp it. Happy downloading.


ahhh thanks so much! this looks like exactly what i am looking for. seems like my above post was a little premature - sorry.

[Toxico]

ahhh thanks so much! this looks like exactly what i am looking for. seems like my above post was a little premature - sorry.

If you are able to get those files to work, please let us know. A lot of us encounter errors during uncompression; if you get it to unRaR without an error tell us! :cool2:

[orei]

hi my friends!!! if you want.. i've one of the latest build of QP.. but is in italian language.. i've the QP 2.3 version..
i've it because i've a dv9095eu nb!!

if anyone want it.. how can share it with your? (i use p2p if you want!!)

bye and thanks

[padawan]

yeah i ran into a problem. rar 7 has curropted data2.cab file. Does anyone have this file and could upload it?


orei - if its in italian i wont be able to read any of it, lol. thanks for your offer though. i need an english version. perhaps it will be useful to someone else though!

[AmigaDude]

OK, I've uploaded just the Data2.cab for QP2.3 here --> http://depositfiles.com/files/551388

Best of luck

[Toxico]

OK, I've uploaded just the Data2.cab for QP2.3 here --> http://depositfiles.com/files/551388

Best of luck

Thanks AmigaDude; that file seems to work! QP creates the X: partition and begins installing.

A further problem on install, though: "Please insert disk 2 that contains the file data3.cab." There's no data3.cab in any of the downloaded packages.

Someone help? *whimper*

[Toxico]

I have a gift for all of you guys that want a copy of QPv1:

http://www.megaupload.com/es/?d=QVE3S9PU

Enjoy it!

If anyone needs QP v1, the megaupload link above is still valid. Could at least get a working version in place while the 2.x issues get sussed out.

[padawan]

toxico - where did you download QP 2.3 from? I also downloaded the data2.cab file uploaded by amigadude, but i am still having problems. i think the other files i have may be corrupted as well. If there no active download link for 2.3 could someone upload them again? thanks guys!

[Toxico]

toxico - where did you download QP 2.3 from? I also downloaded the data2.cab file uploaded by amigadude, but i am still having problems. i think the other files i have may be corrupted as well. If there no active download link for 2.3 could someone upload them again? thanks guys!


The files at http://ridickulous.net/quickplay/ are still available. Grab those and unrar them, let it error on data2.cab and kep going. Then just take AmigaDude's data2.cab and drop it in the directory. Still no data3.cab though. :saywhat:

I have downloaded I think three different sets of files in an attempt to get a valid copy; however, none of the files I have downloaded to date contain a data3.cab. I asked once if this was normal but never got an answer.

Also, I have been attempting to get a .iso for a QP v2 CD but the damn seeder is rarely online.

[AmigaDude]

Not sure where your files are coming from, but here is a directory listing from the QP2.3 directory:

Directory of x:\quickplay2.3\hpqpdp
10/15/2006 05:13 PM <DIR> .
10/15/2006 05:13 PM <DIR> ..
05/08/2006 06:16 PM 47 Autorun.inf
08/03/2006 03:00 AM 62 Custom.ini
08/03/2006 02:55 AM 1,726,641 data1.cab
08/03/2006 02:59 AM 1,527,671 data1.hdr
08/03/2006 02:56 AM 298,115,072 data2.cab
08/03/2006 02:58 AM 301,977,600 data3.cab
08/03/2006 02:59 AM 155,146,859 data4.cab
07/07/2006 02:28 PM 1,161 Driver.ini
05/08/2006 06:16 PM 81,920 HPDUtil.dll
09/04/2001 04:24 PM 344,923 ikernel.ex_
05/09/2006 02:09 PM 687 Lang.ini
08/03/2006 02:59 AM 505 layout.bin
05/08/2006 06:16 PM 3,657 MBR.ini
05/08/2006 06:16 PM 147,456 MBRInst.exe
05/08/2006 06:16 PM 40,960 OEMID.exe
08/03/2006 02:48 AM 293 Platform.ini
08/03/2006 11:22 AM 2,299 QPDPIN.cva
05/08/2006 06:16 PM 32,038 QuickPlay.ico
05/08/2006 06:16 PM 45,056 rmbr.exe
05/08/2006 06:16 PM 40,960 RmDL.exe
11/27/2000 09:23 PM 165,888 Setup.exe
08/03/2006 02:53 AM 295 Setup.ini
08/03/2006 02:53 AM 185,642 Setup.inx
05/08/2006 06:16 PM 556 setup.iss
09/14/2006 12:44 AM 90 setup.log

My upload speed is not too hot so I'm not sure when I can try to reupload everything. Hopefully someone with a fast link will step in.

[Toxico]

Not sure where your files are coming from, but here is a directory listing from the QP2.3 directory:

....

My upload speed is not too hot so I'm not sure when I can try to reupload everything. Hopefully someone with a fast link will step in.
I have 24 out of the 25 (all the file attributes match); just missing data3.cab. I have absolutely no idea why this file seems to be missing all the time. I obtained the set of files I currently have from the link above that modemboy gave, with the exception of the data2.cab file, which you provided.

As a general note, the QP v1 image that Ericko uploaded IS valid; however, it may be model-specific. I couldn't get it to work on my machine.

[padawan]

http://ridickulous.net/quickplay/ is where i downloaded from originally.

an .iso would be awesome. No one here can upload an iso somewhere? that would really be the greatest help to so many of us.

[Toxico]

http://ridickulous.net/quickplay/ is where i downloaded from originally.

an .iso would be awesome. No one here can upload an iso somewhere? that would really be the greatest help to so many of us.

That's the problem - hardly a soul here actually HAS a v2.x CD.

So far as I can tell, only one person whose Intarwebs are Go has a full .iso. I have 20% of it but that doesn't help. :/

[AmigaDude]

I'll try to upload data3.cab, slow though it may be.

The only problem with creating an ISO is the file size. Most of these upload sites (megaupload, depositfiles, etc..) restrict the size of the files that can be dropped for free. The data3.cab is already over 280MB, and my upload seems capped around 50Kbs, so this may take awhile.

[Toxico]

I'll try to upload data3.cab, slow though it may be.

The only problem with creating an ISO is the file size. Most of these upload sites (megaupload, depositfiles, etc..) restrict the size of the files that can be dropped for free. The data3.cab is already over 280MB, and my upload seems capped around 50Kbs, so this may take awhile.

Thanks, Amigadude.

Once that file's in place I'll see about hosting it if I can, or at least seeding a .torrent for the full deal.

[Ericko]

As a general note, the QP v1 image that Ericko uploaded IS valid; however, it may be model-specific. I couldn't get it to work on my machine.
I have a dv4000 CTO. I don't know if myQPv1 image will work in other models. It's good to know the download is still valid :p

[padawan]

Well i came across this site the other day: https://www.mediamax.com/

it offers 25 GB of free upload space. I havent used it yet, so i can vouch for it, but you should try uploading to there.

[AmigaDude]

OK, I've uploaded just the Data3.cab for QP2.3 here --> http://depositfiles.com/files/554218

Enjoy.

[Ericko]

Well i came across this site the other day: https://www.mediamax.com/

it offers 25 GB of free upload space. I havent used it yet, so i can vouch for it, but you should try uploading to there.
Bad idea...for free users the download file size limit is 25MB. You can upload a 1GB file, but you won't be able to download it. And that site is really buggy and it seems that it likes to be down for a few hours every night.

[Toxico]

Thanks VERY much, AmigaDude. I know that probably required a bit of patience on your end.

I'm downloading the file now; I'll report back after it's finished and I attempt an install. If it all works I'll pool the instructions and links together until we can get the full package hosted, so hopefully we can get some people hooked up in the meanwhile.

[Toxico]

:rockon:

SUCCESS!

As it was before I screwed it up by deleting the QP partition without researching it first, I now have a 1027.6MB partition of Type D7 (according to an old version of Partition Magic Pro), and am able to boot directly into QuickPlay Direct 2.3.

I'll condense the instructions into one post, as things stand now (eventually we'll hopefully get the full package hosted but for now it can be pieced together). These are for a reinstall of QP Direct without bothering your other partition/s (except maybe resizing if necessary):

1. Back up your system in case of catastrophic failure (always a good first step when jacking around with partitions).

2. Download HPQPDP.rar or HPQPDP.zip, from http://ridickulous.net/quickplay/

3. Extract whichever you downloaded and drop the resulting HPQPDP folder into your <boot drive>:\SwSetup\ folder (mostly for safekeeping purposes).

4. Using PartitionMagic Pro or Disk Management in Windows something else to either shrink your main partition, secondary partition, or whatever. You want to end up with a 1027.6 MB (or 1028 MB) UNALLOCATED area of space at the END of the drive. Go through all the reboots the machine will likely want to make this happen. It can't hurt to verify that the unallocated space is there and unallocated after all this. (NOTE: If Partition Magic keeps giving errors saying "Selected disk contains one or more Partitions which cannot be moved," you have a recovery partition that prevents it from doing what you need it to or drive information has changed. You may have to find another way of resizing your partitions or a reboot might solve the problem.)

5. After creating the unallocated space, assign it the drive letter X: but DO NOT FORMAT IT.

6. Hie thee to the HPQPDP folder and run setup.exe.

7. Wait.

8. Wait some more.

9. Reboot and keep on waiting.

10. Shut down the laptop and hit the Quickplay button. You WILL most likely see a Windows logo, since QP2.3 is Windows-based whereas QP1.x is Linux-based.

11. Enjoy a celebratory glass of single-malt scotch, and pop in or browse to your favorite flick. This step is optional if you are at work and/or not legal drinking age.


MANY thanks to everyone for their input. For the above files, thanks to modemboy for providing the .rars and to AmigaDude for the valid data2.cab and data3.cab files. Also, thanks to Ericko for the QPv1 image (found at http://www.megaupload.com/es/?d=QVE3S9PU) in case someone's machine cannot run QP 2.x, and to everyone else that pitched in.

[Disclaimer: the 1.x image may not work in all machines. It looks like it was taken from a disc that shipped with a dv4000 CTO; YMMV. See the following article if you need 1.x:

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/genericDocument?docname=c00297718&cc=us&dlc=en&lc=en&jumpid=reg_R1002_USEN

If you need QP 1.x and you created your recovery discs you have another option for restoring QP; it is listed in this article.]

This message was typed in anticipation while QP was installing.

[Edit: linusl also provides a more complex way of getting QP2.x to work under different circumstances if your QP partition is still intact - see page 42 of this thread.]

[Edit number 2: Changed slightly since files have ben re-uploaded.]

[Ericko]

I'm glad you won this battle :thumbup:

Also, thanks to Ericko for the QPv1 image (found at http://www.megaupload.com/es/?d=QVE3S9PU) in case someone's machine cannot run QP 2.x
:) I try to help whenever I can.

[Riddick]

Hi Guys!
You all rock!!! QuickPlay lives once again on my laptop (and it's now version 2.3 not 2.0)
Thank you everyone for your help and for uploading the files for people like me to use!

Although I have one other question, is there a newer version of TVPlay than 1.0?

Thanks

Riddick

[fdlazarte]

this is great! thanks for all your help...

but, anyone kind enough to upload quickplay v3? i saw on the new vista dv2xxx/6xxx/9xxx on circuitcity and bestbuy that quickplay v3 is installed.


muchos gracias!

[Ericko]

anyone kind enough to upload quickplay v3? i saw on the new vista dv2xxx/6xxx/9xxx on circuitcity and bestbuy that quickplay v3 is installed.
QuickPlay v3 :eek: OMG :o

[modemboy]

Hey guys, I deleted the rar files as I couldn't get them to work, looks like they were mostly ok though. If someone has the whole good set or has the .iso please pm me and I will make you an ftp account to upload it to my hosting site. Thanks.

[Toxico]

Hey guys, I deleted the rar files as I couldn't get them to work, looks like they were mostly ok though. If someone has the whole good set or has the .iso please pm me and I will make you an ftp account to upload it to my hosting site. Thanks.

Responded just now.

[dennisz168]

QuickPlay v3 :eek: OMG :o QP v3 is only for Vista. If anyone wants it let me know.

[Riddick]

Hi,
I'd be interested in QuickPlay 3 (It it just the Windows version or is there Direct as well)
As I'm looking to upgrade my laptop to Vista sometime (once I think it'll work)

I can give you access to an FTP account to upload it to? (P.M me)

Thanks

Riddick

[white.apple]

Hi :)
I'm a new forum user and I get here because I have problem with QuickPlay.
I wanted to install WinXPProf on my dv6150us but I wasn't sure if it would worked with the remote controller and QuickPlay without booting Windows. So I decided to try changing partitions first. I made a ghost-image of my os, changed the partitions and overwrote c-disk with the image. Everything works fine but I can't open QP without booting up windows. The 1GB-partition is still there (I didn't touch it) but it doesn't want to work.

What should I do? Remove the QP-partition and format the whole drive?
I have all the files from the SWSetup-directory on a DVD.

I 've already tried to setup QP:
1. from HPQPDP: it produces the error with the number -2147418113
2. from QPW: "The InstallShield Engine (iKernel.exe) could not be installed".

I'm quite confused ;/ and will be thankfull for any help

Anna

P.S. I know, my English is terrible :(

__________________________________________________________

I've already solved my problems :) It was helpfull to delete the qp-partition and to re-install everything.

[Toxico]

QP v3 is only for Vista. If anyone wants it let me know.

I'm planning on testing an upgrade to Vista; I'd like to give it a whirl. :D

[dennisz168]

I haven't uploaded many files so you'll have to give me a hand.

Also would someone kindly share data2.cab and data3.cab from QP2.1?

[PSG22]

I heard about QuickPlay 3. What's the difference between version 3 and 2.3?

Scirwode

[Toxico]

I haven't uploaded many files so you'll have to give me a hand.

Also would someone kindly share data2.cab and data3.cab from QP2.1?

Are they on a CD/DVD or in a directory? If they are on a CD or DVD you'll probably have to make an image file of the disc; if they're in a directory just zip or rar the folder they are in. As far as uploading, it's really going to depend on how large the files get. There are plenty of options but file size will play a factor. Looks like Riddick offered up a place to upload; I'd send him a PM.

As far as the data2.cab and data3.cab files, I know we have them for 2.3; not sure about 2.1. I've uploaded a .zip and a .rar (in case one won't work) of the full QP2.3 Direct package to Modemboy so he may be along with a link soon.

Out of curiosity, is that QP v3 that you have the Windows version, or is it QP Direct?

[Toxico]

Sorry to pimp another forum, but in the off chance a link to QPv3 appears here:

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=101145

[Toxico]

I haven't tried it yet so I cannot vouch for it, but here is a torrent link for a QP 2.0 CD:

http://www.suprnova.tv/download.php?infohash=d40281254b57d4ec30df9dfab4adffb251a401ac

*bumps for want of QP3 :P*

[modemboy]

Hey Toxico, I think the qp2.3 upload errored out for some reason, there is only a partfile.
Everything that was succesful is at the same link as before:
http://ridickulous.net/quickplay/
A description of each file would be great so people know what they are downloading. Thanks.

[Toxico]

Hey Toxico, I think the qp2.3 upload errored out for some reason, there is only a partfile.
Everything that was succesful is at the same link as before:
http://ridickulous.net/quickplay/
A description of each file would be great so people know what they are downloading. Thanks.

Yeah, I kept getting disconnected when uploading the .iso. It shouldn't be necessary, though; you can kill the partfile if you want.

HPQPDP.zip and HPQPDP.rar are the same thing, just duplicated to be on the safe side in case WinRAR was jacking up the .cab files. They're the full QP 2.3 Direct install files as they would reside in the Swsetup folder. They both work for me; I think the original problem started after uploading the files and made data2.cab not able to be decompressed. If someone wants to test either or both of those that'd be awesome.

QPv1.nrg is the QP v1.x image that was provided some time ago, in case anyone needs it for legacy reasons.

[Toxico]

Looks like I'm going to be sans Quickplay again as work has asked that we at least install Vista on a separate partition since we'll have to support it to some extent. As I'm the unlucky one of the group with only 40GB in his company desktop, I'm blowing away my XP install on my laptop and doing a fresh Vista install. Partition has been imaged and files individually backed up.

Hopefully within the next few days someone will be able to offer up QP v3. I'll try installing QP 2.3 Direct and report back on how it goes and if it plays nice with Vista. I don't see why it wouldn't since it has its own OS and partition, but you never know.

[Toxico]

Get Quickplay v3 here: http://www.robertbromfield.com/Quickplay%203.0.rar

PLEASE NOTE THAT UNLESS YOU ARE RUNNING VISTA, YOU SHOULDN'T EVEN THINK ABOUT TRYING THIS VERSION. Also, this is QPW and Quick Launch buttons for Vista, not QPD. Bummer.

This guy claims to have the rest of the Swsetup directory from a couple of machines, so I'l keep tabs on it.

[Toxico]

http://www.mediafire.com/?0nqnzknzfvw

Torrent for Swsetup folder from dv6000/dv2000 machines.

Edit: Oops. The above folder is from a machine that ships with Vista.

[Toxico]

Sad to say, but it so far appears that HP isn't shipping the install files for QP with new laptops that ship with Vista. I've gone to Best Buy and Fry's myself to confirm this, and others have stated it as well.

I'll call HP this week if nothing surfaces. There's definitely a version that works with Vista in existence; obtaining it may prove to be a chore...

[Jamaicanyouth]

Yes you guys are getting the QuickPlay 3.0 from my site. Yes this guys name is Robert as you can see from the link. So far downloads have totaled 21 Gb. The drivers where uploaded by a torrent.

[Toxico]

Yes you guys are getting the QuickPlay 3.0 from my site. Yes this guys name is Robert as you can see from the link. So far downloads have totaled 21 Gb. The drivers where uploaded by a torrent.

Hey Robert; no offense in not using your name initially. Was going for as much anonymity as possible outside your original post.

Since you're here: Thanks a ton for your efforts in obtaining all of this and providing it. Good lookin out.

21Gb? Yikes. Need an alternate host? I can make a .torrent for QP3 and seed it if you like.

[isch]

Hi Toxico,

Thanks for your effort in uploading the links to all the files needed to install QuickPlay 2.3. I have downloaded HPQPDP.rar (http://ridickulous.net/quickplay/HPQPDP.rar) from http://ridickulous.net/quickplay/ (http://ridickulous.net/quickplay/) and extract the folder HPQPDP. Everything went normal (no extracting error at all) but when i run setup.exe, i keep getting ComponentMoveData error, Error number -2147418113.

Have also downloaded the other data2.cab and data3.cab files from the depositfiles link to replace the ones in HPQPDP folder (as suggested) but getting the same error. Any ideas? Thanks.

[Toxico]

Hi Toxico,

Thanks for your effort in uploading the links to all the files needed to install QuickPlay 2.3. I have downloaded HPQPDP.rar (http://ridickulous.net/quickplay/HPQPDP.rar) from http://ridickulous.net/quickplay/ (http://ridickulous.net/quickplay/) and extract the folder HPQPDP. Everything went normal (no extracting error at all) but when i run setup.exe, i keep getting ComponentMoveData error, Error number -2147418113.

Have also downloaded the other data2.cab and data3.cab files from the depositfiles link to replace the ones in HPQPDP folder (as suggested) but getting the same error. Any ideas? Thanks.

Are you running Vista? Reason I ask, is I recently installed Vista on my notebook and I get the same error. If I'm right, your install will sit at 5% for a few seconds, then error at 15%. Is this what's happening?

I haven't found a way to get Quickplay Direct to install when using Vista yet. Emphasis on yet.

Of course, if this is happening to you in XP, I have no idea. You shouldn't have to replace the two .cab files any longer; I uploaded two versions of the HPQPDP directory (a .rar and a .zip - they contain the same files) that contain the complete package and don't give any errors on uncompressing. Since you downloaded the .rar, you might try the .zip before anything else (I used no compression with the .zip). Like I said, if you're on Vista, forget it for now and check back later. :P

QP 2.3 is XP-only, as far as HP is concerned. Personally, I don't think it should matter, since it runs on its own partition with a stripped-down OS, but I do wonder if it makes calls back to the boot partition for the main OS. I'll find out tomorrow when I begin the really extreme methods and I'll update this thread with the results.

[scropion86]

HI when I bought my notebook((dv4000)) it came with Xp home Edition And QP put when boot it at first time I get some erros so I format all the HD and Repartion it
((I know now It A big Mistake)) And Install XP Pro From CD I have Now I cant open the Qp I Download This File (((HPQPDP))) and Unzip it now What can I do And I contact The Local Support And he said that must format all ahe HD I said no Can I Do It Wihtout HD Full Format

I need Some Help!!!!!




And Sorry for my English Becaous Iam From Eygpt




Please HElp!!!

[scropion86]

And IN This Case Do I Need To Update The bios Or not

& QuickPlay 2.3 can be run on dv4000 or not becaous i dont know what is the original vertion that came with it

[isch]

Since the World Series is over :thumbdown I had a little time on my hands last night. So, I deleted all partitions except WinXP, then followed the steps I gave above. (already had the registry fix, so no need for that) It worked perfectly, and QP2.3 is playing as I type. Something is obviously different with your setup, (even though I once had a similar problem but don't remember what I could've done to fix it??)

IF you have a good backup and some time, then here is one possible suggestion:

- Reinstall QP2.3 and stop at the point where it asks you to reboot.
- Leave that prompt window open, and move it out of your way
- Right-Click on My Computer and select Manage
- Select Disk Management from the new window
- Disk 0 should show the following, left to right:
(1) WinXP partition
(2) Uknown Partition ~200mb (this is QP1.30)
<possible free space>
(3) Uknown Partition ~1GB (this is QP2.3)

- Right-Click on the QP2.3 (last) partition and select "Change Drive letter..." and assign drive letter Y to it.
- Save , exit to Win desktop
- Use Explorer go to the Y:\ drive and open the boot.ini file
Post back with the boot.ini contents from your C: and Y: drives, just in case ..
- Ensure it says boot from partition 3, change both lines if neccessary
i.e. default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(3)\WINDOWS
- Save the file and exit.
- Go back and UNDO the drive mapping for Y:

Now you can respond OK to the request for a reboot that is sitting there, and hopefully it boots into QP2.3 to finish installing. If it fails again make note of that error message you said you got.
Hi AmigaDude,

I have download all the necessary files for Quickplay 2.3 (for windows XP) using the link posted by Toxico. As suggested by earlier post, i found out that renaming the unallocated ~1024MB of free space to letter X: allow the installation files to proceed to the stage where it will ask you to reboot. However, there is another problem. When I click "OK" to the reboot, the computer basically just restart and stop at a blank black screen.

Initially, i thought this is normal and part of the process but an hour later, nothing happen. I have then reinstalled winXP and followed your instructions in your post #584 but the same thing happen, blank black screen. To me it looks like as if BIOS does not know how to boot up windows XP and got stuck there. Have you got any experience with Boot.ini? My boot.ini before i reboot the computer was

"default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(3)\WINDOWS"

where (3) is the third partition in my hard disk that contains the Quickplay files.

Should it be

"default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS" ???

Is there any other method to ensure that my computer can complete the reboot process? I could not quite understand how the following works. Could you please explain. Thanks.

Install QP Registry Update by creating a text file and putting these lines into it:

Code:
REGEDIT4[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\QPFlag]"QPFlag"=dword:00000003[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\QPFlag]"QPPlatform"="DV1000"

[isch]

Are you running Vista? Reason I ask, is I recently installed Vista on my notebook and I get the same error. If I'm right, your install will sit at 5% for a few seconds, then error at 15%. Is this what's happening?

I haven't found a way to get Quickplay Direct to install when using Vista yet. Emphasis on yet.

Of course, if this is happening to you in XP, I have no idea. You shouldn't have to replace the two .cab files any longer; I uploaded two versions of the HPQPDP directory (a .rar and a .zip - they contain the same files) that contain the complete package and don't give any errors on uncompressing. Since you downloaded the .rar, you might try the .zip before anything else (I used no compression with the .zip). Like I said, if you're on Vista, forget it for now and check back later. :P

QP 2.3 is XP-only, as far as HP is concerned. Personally, I don't think it should matter, since it runs on its own partition with a stripped-down OS, but I do wonder if it makes calls back to the boot partition for the main OS. I'll find out tomorrow when I begin the really extreme methods and I'll update this thread with the results.
Hi Toxico,

I am using WinXP on my pavilion. The files in the link is OK. I've since found out that i need to assign letter X: to the unallocated space for installation to continue pass the 5% or 15% mark. However, as i posted in previous post to AmigaDude, the computer comes to a black screen once i reboot the computer. Must be something to do with the boot.ini or the registry not being able to load windows XP when it reboot to complete the QuickPlay installation. Any clue how to fix this? Thanks.

[Toxico]

Hi Toxico,

I am using WinXP on my pavilion. The files in the link is OK. I've since found out that i need to assign letter X: to the unallocated space for installation to continue pass the 5% or 15% mark. However, as i posted in previous post to AmigaDude, the computer comes to a black screen once i reboot the computer. Must be something to do with the boot.ini or the registry not being able to load windows XP when it reboot to complete the QuickPlay installation. Any clue how to fix this? Thanks.

I've honestly not seen that happen before. On install, it should pause at a black screen and install the remaining files.

I will poke around and see what I can find for you. Not that it helps you, but assigning X: to the free space in Windows has gotten me to the reboot prompt for installing QPD 2.3. Now to reboot and see if I get any further...

[Toxico]

Hi Toxico,

I am using WinXP on my pavilion. The files in the link is OK. I've since found out that i need to assign letter X: to the unallocated space for installation to continue pass the 5% or 15% mark. However, as i posted in previous post to AmigaDude, the computer comes to a black screen once i reboot the computer. Must be something to do with the boot.ini or the registry not being able to load windows XP when it reboot to complete the QuickPlay installation. Any clue how to fix this? Thanks.

Wow, that did it. :dude: I now have QP2.3 working in tandem with Vista. It's kind of humorous to see the XP logo appear when booting into QP. Glad I didn't go the route I was planning (it involved installing XP on another partition)! My bad for not assigning the drive letter. :thumbdown

Anyhow, about your problem: It sounds like the files on the QP partition are not being read when the computer restarts. Since it's basically starting with its own operating system (the files it writes to the X: partition) it's not actually utilizing the registry on your boot drive. It is looking at the boot record, though, and I suspect this is where you're having trouble.

Start from scratch by deleting whatever partition was created and assigning it X: but not formatting it (it should show as a RAW partition). Then run setup for QP 2.3 and follow it as normal. If the same thing happens on restart let me know.

I'm no expert but I'll do what I can to help you.

[Toxico]

HI when I bought my notebook((dv4000)) it came with Xp home Edition And QP put when boot it at first time I get some erros so I format all the HD and Repartion it
((I know now It A big Mistake)) And Install XP Pro From CD I have Now I cant open the Qp I Download This File (((HPQPDP))) and Unzip it now What can I do And I contact The Local Support And he said that must format all ahe HD I said no Can I Do It Wihtout HD Full Format

I need Some Help!!!!!




And Sorry for my English Becaous Iam From Eygpt




Please HElp!!!
You will need to create a 1028 MB partition at the end of the drive. If one isn't already there, you can do this through Disk Management in XP (right-click My Computer and select Manage, then go to Disk Management). Select your partition (the last one, if you have more than one) and choose to shrink it. For the amount of space to shrink the volume, put 1028. Give this new volume the drive letter X: but DO NOT format it. Then run the setup.exe in the HPQPDP folder.

I hope these instructions are clear enough. If you don't understand something let me know. Also see http://www.notebookforums.com/showthread.php?postid=2542025#post2542025 for the full instructions.

[Toxico]

The set of instructions I wrote on a previous page for reinstalling QP have been updated to reflect new file locations and assigning the drive letter.

http://www.notebookforums.com/showthread.php?postid=2542025#post2542025

These instructions also worked for me to install QP 2.3 in Vista. YMMV.

[AmigaDude]

isch - A couple of things.

1) Don't worry about the registry update, since it is just to let the install complete on some machines. Obviously, you've completed the install phase so you don't need that trick.

2) Although that's not exactly what I originally intended for the drive letter scenario, it sounds like it worked. To answer your question of the boot.ini you need to take into account what is installed on your machine, and where it is installed.

Normally, ( if there is such a thing), you have something like this: (just an example)
Partition 1 { 59Gb } = C: (WinXP)
Partition 2 { 1Gb } = QuickPlay
In this case, the boot.ini (on the X: drive using your setup) should point to Partition(2)

Sometime, like with me, you have another partition already (another example):
Partition 1 { 44Gb } = C: (WinXP)
Partition 2 { 15Gb } = D:\ (User File)
Partition 3 { 1Gb } = QuickPlay
In this case, the boot.ini (on the X: drive using your setup) should point to Partition(3)

Other points - The install usually fails at that 5-15% mark when it cannot properly buiild the Quickplay partition. This can be due to Not Enough Free Space (< 1Gb), too many partitions already (more that 4 I think) or non-standard boot records (Vista, etc..) though I'm sure there are other reasons as well. If you get past this point, to where it requests a reboot, then 2 things happen:

1) The Master Boot Record (MBR) is temporarily altered to mark the Quickplay partion as the Boot partition. (Normally it is your WinXP partition that has this flag) And QP code is added to the MBR, but you never see this.
2) The Boot.ini (on the Quickplay partition) is built to reflect it's own correct partition number.

[modemboy]

I grabbed the Quickplay 3.0.rar file and stuck it in the http://ridickulous.net/quickplay/ (http://ridickulous.net/quickplay/) directory.

[scropion86]

You will need to create a 1028 MB partition at the end of the drive. If one isn't already there, you can do this through Disk Management in XP (right-click My Computer and select Manage, then go to Disk Management). Select your partition (the last one, if you have more than one) and choose to shrink it. For the amount of space to shrink the volume, put 1028. Give this new volume the drive letter X: but DO NOT format it. Then run the setup.exe in the HPQPDP folder.

I hope these instructions are clear enough. If you don't understand something let me know. Also see http://www.notebookforums.com/showthread.php?postid=2542025#post2542025 for the full instructions.

i do it but i have erroe in 5% say partion error allocation
((shrink what is mean ))

Another time sorry for my bad english

[Toxico]

i do it but i have erroe in 5% say partion error allocation
((shrink what is mean ))

Another time sorry for my bad english

There is something that is keeping Windows from resizing the partition. How many partitions do you have? I would try getting a copy of Partition Magic and using that to try resizing the partition. Or try resizing the partition in Safe Mode maybe.

[Matthew_B]

Get Quickplay v3 here: http://www.robertbromfield.com/Quickplay%203.0.rar

PLEASE NOTE THAT UNLESS YOU ARE RUNNING VISTA, YOU SHOULDN'T EVEN THINK ABOUT TRYING THIS VERSION. Also, this is QPW and Quick Launch buttons for Vista, not QPD. Bummer.

This guy claims to have the rest of the Swsetup directory from a couple of machines, so I'l keep tabs on it.

The download for QuickPlay from this link was fantastic. I have a dv9008tx which I upgraded from WinXP MCE to Vista Ultimate (without backing up the SWSetup directory :cursing: ) and lost the installer.

[Mu96apha]

For those of you who lost your copy of QuickPlay 2.3, I have uploaded a backup of the install files that came on my DV2000T.

download link (http://rapidshare.de/users/8E2OFS)

There are two folders:

QPW - QuickPlay in Windows
HPQPDP - DirectPlay
added 15 Oct 2006 - alternate download links:
file 1 of 9 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=0DRNRCYB)
file 2 of 9 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=RNTSAET9)
file 3 of 9 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=ARHCN650)
file 4 of 9 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=5URKUXFZ)
file 5 of 9 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=RQ5R886C)
file 6 of 9 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=11OMSX1D)
file 7 of 9 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=D2PYCTYV)
file 8 of 9 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=Q81YBE91)
file 9 of 9 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=GY4OU7SX)

Is This On
Compitable With
Any Pavilion Dv 2000 Series ?

:) :) :)

And Is It For
Windows Xp ?

:blushing: :blushing: :blushing:

[Kuiper]

Can someone please provide Quickplay 2.3 for Windows QPW. None of the links no longer work for this program. Perhaps if Toxico can upload it to the http://ridickulous.net/quickplay/ (http://ridickulous.net/quickplay/) address?

Thanks.

[Toxico]

Is This On
Compitable With
Any Pavilion Dv 2000 Series ?

:) :) :)

And Is It For
Windows Xp ?

:blushing: :blushing: :blushing:



If I recall correctly, we had problems with those files (data2.cab corrupt and data3.cab missing).

Grab either HPQPDP.zip or HPQPDP.rar from http://www.ridickulous.net/quickplay. This will be exactly what you need.

[Toxico]

Can someone please provide Quickplay 2.3 for Windows QPW. None of the links no longer work for this program. Perhaps if Toxico can upload it to the http://ridickulous.net/quickplay/ (http://ridickulous.net/quickplay/) address?

Thanks.

I PMed you as well, but I'll put this here for everyone's benefit:

The Megaupload links above seem to still work; you may be able to obtain QPW from these. I will obtain the QPW folder from a coworker and see about getting it uploaded somewhere.

[Kuiper]

Thank you Toxico for all your help. I was able to download Quickplay Direct HPQPDP Direct but not QPW. Unfortunately the rapid share link no longer contains Quick Play for Windows. I recently pruchased a Comparq Presario V6215 loaded with Vista but I want to run XP instead instead of Vista. I do not like Vista yet as I feel it is a resource hog. So I installed XP. All my backups that came with this laptop are for Vista including QPW 3.0. I would appreciate QPW 2.3 so that I could run quickplay within Windows XP.

I have been pulling my hair out trying to install Quick Play Direct but I finally found out where I went wrong. The problem was that I was creating a partition of size 1028 and labelling it as drive X. This is not necessary. I found that I only need to leave enough unpartioned space after my Windows XP install. Running setup through HPQPDP will automatically format and label this partition X. I also had another partition already set up as Drive D: I had to remove all partitions except C: in order to make this work. If anyone else is having problems it may be helpful to check your partition structure.

[Toxico]

Thank you Toxico for all your help. I was able to download Quickplay Direct HPQPDP Direct but not QPW. Unfortunately the rapid share link no longer contains Quick Play for Windows. I recently pruchased a Comparq Presario V6215 loaded with Vista but I want to run XP instead instead of Vista. I do not like Vista yet as I feel it is a resource hog. So I installed XP. All my backups that came with this laptop are for Vista including QPW 3.0. I would appreciate QPW 2.3 so that I could run quickplay within Windows XP.

I have been pulling my hair out trying to install Quick Play Direct but I finally found out where I went wrong. The problem was that I was creating a partition of size 1028 and labelling it as drive X. This is not necessary. I found that I only need to leave enough unpartioned space after my Windows XP install. Running setup through HPQPDP will automatically format and label this partition X. I also had another partition already set up as Drive D: I had to remove all partitions except C: in order to make this work. If anyone else is having problems it may be helpful to check your partition structure.

Okay, good to know that it's not always necessary (and is sometimes detrimental!) to assign a drive letter to the partition. I ended up having to do so to install QP on a Vista machine, but I guess that's how it goes. :p

I'll snag the QPW files from my coworker when she gets back from taking her son to the doctor. Poking through the XP-based image I made of my hard drive proved pointless, and the only version of QPW I have on my system right now is 3.0 (Vista-only). I can't believe I was dumb enough to not back up the damn 2.3 files :oops:.

[archalien]

I dl'd and installed QPW3.0, thanks 4 the link.
Can someone confirm, did this come on a 32 or 64 bit Vista?
It installed as a 32 bit app in my Vista64 install.

Not sure if this was added in 3.0 or not, but I found w/ my 360HD-DVD drive installed first that the QPW and QPD 2.3 installed the HD-DVD versions. While when I installed 3.0 it picked up my new TV tuner also and installed an appropriate app. I dont know if 2.3 had this functionality. Whats more is 3.0 has the ability to view the webcam although it doesnt work???

Can neone confirm the webcam operation in QP 3.0 for a Vista32 and Vista64 install? thx

[Kuiper]

OK I got QPW 2.3 through huchris27's archive 8 & 9. Thanks for everyone's help in getting me through these most troublesome installs. Thanks for the files Toxico.

[Toxico]

I dl'd and installed QPW3.0, thanks 4 the link.
Can someone confirm, did this come on a 32 or 64 bit Vista?
It installed as a 32 bit app in my Vista64 install.

Not sure if this was added in 3.0 or not, but I found w/ my 360HD-DVD drive installed first that the QPW and QPD 2.3 installed the HD-DVD versions. While when I installed 3.0 it picked up my new TV tuner also and installed an appropriate app. I dont know if 2.3 had this functionality. Whats more is 3.0 has the ability to view the webcam although it doesnt work???

Can neone confirm the webcam operation in QP 3.0 for a Vista32 and Vista64 install? thx

I have to assume that QPD 3.0 was taken from a Vista32 machine, since the files purportedly came from a display model at Best Buy, and as we all know Best Buy wouldn't sell something that nice. :P

I left my laptop at work today, it seems. :blushing: I'll check on the webcam tomorrow; I didn't realize it could do that. Mine's a 32-bit install; I haven't ventured into 64 bit territory yet.

[Toxico]

Whats more is 3.0 has the ability to view the webcam although it doesnt work???

Can neone confirm the webcam operation in QP 3.0 for a Vista32 and Vista64 install? thx
I fired up QP3.0 and had it display the webcam with no problems! Interesting feature, I had no idea. Like I said before, though, this is for 32-but Vista (Business edition). I have no way at present to test 64-bit functionality.

I checked HP's site; there are webcam drivers for your notebook (I'm assuming we're talking about the one listed in your sig here) for 32-bit Vista but not for 64-bit. You might try grabbing those if you haven't, or reinstalling them if you already have them. (Edit: Whoops, I searched under dv9000 CTO instead of dv9000t CTO. Still, they're worth a shot.)

[Jim W]

Is there a way to keep Quick Play from launching on startup ?

Thanks
Jim W

[Toxico]

Is there a way to keep Quick Play from launching on startup ?

Thanks
Jim W
Is your machine booting into Quickplay Direct or is the Windows application just opening on startup (meaning you can close it and go on using Windows)? The steps will be different for each.

If the Windows version (the one you can close and keep working) is coming up, first check your Startup folder for the Quickplay icon. If it's there, get rid of it. If not, go to Start -> Run and type msconfig to bring up the list of things that load on startup. Check here for anything referencing Quickplay in the Startup and Services tabs. BE CAREFUL IN THIS AREA.

If your system will only boot to Quickplay direct it's a little more complicated. You'll have to edit the boot information to make sure that your Windows partition is the first one that the machine tries to read on boot. Instructions on this are earlier in this thread.

If you're actually looking to just get rid of Quickplay altogether, you can delete the partition with no drive letter (it'll be 1.00GB with no drive letter) using Windows' built-in Disk Management. Again, BE CAREFUL IN HERE. This is for Quickplay Direct; to remove Quickplay for Windows just uninstall it like anything else.

Hope that covers all the bases!

[Jim W]

Thanks Toxico, I have the Windows version (the one you can close and keep working) I've done the msconfig thing in startup, but it keeps lauching on startup

[Toxico]

Thanks Toxico, I have the Windows version (the one you can close and keep working) I've done the msconfig thing in startup, but it keeps lauching on startup
I was just coing back here to suggest one thing I forgot: Are you running XP? If so, go to the Quick Launch Buttons configuration (in Control Panel) and see if for some reason it's configured to start Quickplay on boot. I unfortunately can't tell you where exactly this is located in the QLB applet because I don't have it installed anymore but I seem to recall the option being there.

If you're in Vista it's going to be enirely different and I'll have to so some poking around...

[Jim W]

I was just coing back here to suggest one thing I forgot: Are you running XP? If so, go to the Quick Launch Buttons configuration (in Control Panel) and see if for some reason it's configured to start Quickplay on boot. I unfortunately can't tell you where exactly this is located in the QLB applet because I don't have it installed anymore but I seem to recall the option being there.

If you're in Vista it's going to be enirely different and I'll have to so some poking around...

Toxico, I'm using Vista Home Premium

[Toxico]

I poked through the registry a bit and didn't find any value that would, by itself, start Quickplay on Windows' startup. That being said, I don't have the issue on my machine and I can't reproduce it unless I stick the Quickplay icon in my Startup folder.

What file types is Quickplay set up to handle? I'm wondering if something else is trying to load on startup that Quickplay is trying to handle, like a .wav file or a .mp3 or even a movie. Does Quickplay actually try to do anything, or does it just load and sit there?

It's far from an elegant solution, but you might try uninstalling Quickplay (make sure you have the install files handy in your SwSetup folder, or download them from either of the links earlier in this thread if you don't). Reboot, possibly do a registry clean (TweakNow has a free download that can be used with Vista) to remove leftover values associated with Quickplay and then reinstall. I'd check the file associations first though.

[Jim W]

Toxico, I finally figured out what was causing Quick Play to launch, on my dv6265us you can touch the quick launch bar to start the computer or you can press the start button, if I touch the quick launch bar to start the computer it also launches Quick Play, if I press the start button it doesn't, to many frills :p

Toxico, thanks for all your help I really appreciate it

[Toxico]

Toxico, I finally figured out what was causing Quick Play to launch, on my dv6265us you can touch the quick launch bar to start the computer or you can press the start button, if I touch the quick launch bar to start the computer it also launches Quick Play, if I press the start button it doesn't, to many frills :p

Toxico, thanks for all your help I really appreciate it

No problem; I guess it was the simplest explanation in the end! I tend to overthink things...

[AthrunZala32]

toxico, im having a major problem here.
Im running windows vista.
I did what u told me to.Creating a partition named X (1GB) and installing HPQPDP. When the setup is completed i restarted the computer. It didnt boot into windows or quickplay, instead it went to System Recovery Options page.
Please help me.really.Is the computer booting into X?

[JBMedeiros]

Hi Friends

Anyone here discovered yet any way to install QP 3.0 and Direct Play on Vista?

I read all topic and thinking to install version 2.3 but i think any Master here discover a way to install 3.0 for us.

Thanks All

[Toxico]

toxico, im having a major problem here.
Im running windows vista.
I did what u told me to.Creating a partition named X (1GB) and installing HPQPDP. When the setup is completed i restarted the computer. It didnt boot into windows or quickplay, instead it went to System Recovery Options page.
Please help me.really.Is the computer booting into X?
O.O

I'm really sorry to have left you hanging for a few days with something this serious! I got rear-ended on the way to work the other day and have been laid up.

If it's booting to the system recovery screen it's certainly not booting to the correct partition. What SHOULD happen after restart is that the machine will boot to the Quickplay partition, X:, and finish up installation.

Best guess here is that the partition you created for Quickplay is not the last partition on the drive. It has to be in order for the install to work, because your boot record is changed temporarily to boot off of the last partition.

Will the system boot to the recovery options no matter what you press? By that I mean, does it do the same thing whether or not you use the power button or the Quickplay buttons?

If that's the case, you may be in for some complication. Two things to try first:

- First, try the easy way: When the machine is booting, keep hitting F8 to see if you get the boot menu. This way you might be able to restore a good configuration, boot Vista in Safe Mode or at least boot to a comand prompt. If you can only do one of the last two, see below the next point for info on editing the boot information.

- I'm not terribly familiar with the recovery options as I've never used them personally, but you should have an option to try and repair Windows (Startup Repair). You might try that; it might fix your boot information for you as that's part of what it is designed to do. You can also try System Restore from the recovery options if this doesn't work.

Ultimately, if the recovery options don't fix your boot info or you can't load a previous config from the boot menu, you'll need to get access to the C: drive and edit the boot information yourself to make C: your primary boot partition again. You can use BCDEdit.exe to do this, but if you can't boot into Vista it won't be easy to run it. Some links to information on this are below; in the Microsoft article, the meat of what you will need to do will be under "8. Change the default boot entry." Ignore the steps about enabling debugging because they don't apply. Definitely look over the whole article, though, so you know what you're getting into.

Here is the article: http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/driver/tips/debug_vista.mspx

There's no easy way to make a boot disk for Vista, unless you can get to another Vista machine. Here are some instructions: http://www.windowsbbs.com/showthread.php?t=55427

Note that the article talks about a floppy disk; you'll be using a CD instead.

You can also try something like VistaBootPRO, though I cannot vouch for its effectiveness in your situation: http://www.pro-networks.org/vistabootpro/intro.php



Whatever method you use, the first thing you want to do when you can boot back into Vista is go back to Disk Management and get rid of that Quickplay partition you made! This will at least take you back to square one.

Assuming that my initial guess is the problem, once you get back to booting into Vista the only ways to get that 1GB partition to be the last one on the drive will be:

a) Somehow shrink the recovery partition by 1GB so the free space is at the end of the drive - I do not know if this can be done;
b) Delete the recovery partition so that there is no other partition after your boot partition. If you're going to go this route, CREATE YOUR RECOVERY CDs FIRST; or
c) Use a different application capable of moving partitions. Partition Magic Pro could do it easily in XP, but I'd hesitate to use it in Vista. I've gotten version 8.0 working with Vista but haven't used it to modify any partitions for fear of error.

Logically speaking, you probably shrunk your Vista partition, which is the first partition on the drive, and created the X: partition out of the free space after this, which sticks X: in between the first partition and the previously second partition, which is usually the recovery partition. This is not good, because the X: partition that Quickplay will use HAS to be the last one on the drive, like so:

http://www.sollitaire.com/toxico/partitions.png

This is my hard drive as shown by Disk Management. C: is my Vista boot partition, D: is just a partition I have for storing install files for applications and whatnot, and the unnamed 1.00 GB partition is what you have after Quickplay installs properly. Note that I don't have the recovery partition anymore, because I deleted it.


I hope my rambling here helps you. Please let me know. I will keep trying to help if this doesn't do it.

[dr_pepper]

For those struggling with QP 1.4:

I stumbled across this thread while trying to sort through my own problems with WP 1.4 freezing on my DV1170. I had wiped the drive, reinstalled, but allowed the 240 MB. I even had the quickplay disc to reinstall, but it would keep freezing when it showed "loading quickplay". As it turns out, I also had to install InterVideo WinDVD to make quickplay work (this is also available on the HP web page with the drivers). Nowhere does HP explain that this need be installed for Quickplay to work. Seems kinda goofy to me that basically a stand alone OS must access my windows partition to grab -well i'm not even sure what- from WinDVD to work. I'm wondering if a lot of people struggling with QP installs have a similar type problem.

[Toxico]

For those struggling with QP 1.4:

I stumbled across this thread while trying to sort through my own problems with WP 1.4 freezing on my DV1170. I had wiped the drive, reinstalled, but allowed the 240 MB. I even had the quickplay disc to reinstall, but it would keep freezing when it showed "loading quickplay". As it turns out, I also had to install InterVideo WinDVD to make quickplay work (this is also available on the HP web page with the drivers). Nowhere does HP explain that this need be installed for Quickplay to work. Seems kinda goofy to me that basically a stand alone OS must access my windows partition to grab -well i'm not even sure what- from WinDVD to work. I'm wondering if a lot of people struggling with QP installs have a similar type problem.

Wow, thanks for the info; I wasn't aware of that. I don't believe I ever had a version of QP older than 2.x (I have a dv1680us so I suppose it's possible), or didn't pay attention until I needed to reinstall. :P

[acyclovir]

hello, i have successfully re installed qp direct, but when i want to exit or reboot since quickplay, it freeazes an i have to forced turn off my laptop, it seems to qp does not create the hibernate file, or something, some suggestions, how to fix that.... sorry about my poor english

[chrisbillabong]

Note for anyone hoping to get Partition Magic working in Vista.

There is an alternative - Acronis Disk Director Suite v.10.0 Build 2.160 works fine!

[Toxico]

Note for anyone hoping to get Partition Magic working in Vista.

There is an alternative - Acronis Disk Director Suite v.10.0 Build 2.160 works fine!

Excellent! I'll have to nab a copy once I get home from work.

[Toxico]

Note to all interested in installing Quickplay Direct using the instructions earlier in this thread: I willbe revising the instructions and reposting them today to account for some new information and possibly a few problems people have seen.

[chrisbillabong]

Note to all interested in installing Quickplay Direct using the instructions earlier in this thread: I willbe revising the instructions and reposting them today to account for some new information and possibly a few problems people have seen.

I have given up for now, as I keep getting the 5% error.
HP dv9008tx with a clean install of Ultimate.

Nothing seems to help.

Cheers, for the great advice on here! :)

[euhnlee]

Note to all interested in installing Quickplay Direct using the instructions earlier in this thread: I willbe revising the instructions and reposting them today to account for some new information and possibly a few problems people have seen.


to Toxico: I just got through following your instructions on getting QP Direct to work on Vista, and all i can say is: you're the MAN! (or WOMAN!)
Yes it worked; yes the XP logo brought a smile to my face; yes i'm enjoying a single-malt scotch in celebration (Laphroaig 10 Yr!); no, my anger at HP for directly advertising full Quickplay capability in their Vista-running laptops is not gone (but it is now on the backburner).
Anyway, Thank You! (and everyone else that pitched in)


One problem that you guys may or may not be able to help me with:
For some reason, in Quickplay Direct, it won't play some of my US-region DVDs. It asks if I want to change the code for my DVD-player (warning me that i can only do this 5 times), but even if i say yes it doesn't do anything and just spits out my DVD. At the same time i can play these DVDs without problem if i play it in Quickplay Windows.
What's the deal? Is there a way to install drivers (or whatever) into the X partition to solve this problem?

If you can help that'd be great!

Thanks again!

[euhnlee]

Actually, never mind about the DVD playing issue, it's gone now.
After playing a DVD in Windows mode with Quickplay, it now plays fine in QP Direct.
I guess since i never used the DVD drive before it had to initialize or something, I don't know...

[Toxico]

Glad things got worked out, euhnlee.

I apologize to everyone for not revising the instructions as of yet; my neck still hurts from the car wreck, I'm getting married this weekend, and it's crunch time both at home and at work (new IP phone system going in this week) - my cup runneth over at the moment! My fiancee is out doing girly things tonight; if my daughter will let me *cough* I may do it here shortly.

[boeonoz]

I have finish install HPQPDP with Vista OS. After I enable Hibernation in Vista, it's work well.

I have post some clip here

Turn on to HP QuickPlay DirectPlay and Enter Vista (MOV, 28 MB)
http://www.sendspace.com/file/8fvl4g

This is new movie, While inside Vista then Turn off and Open HP Quick Play DirectPlay (AVI DivX6, 1 MB)
http://www.sendspace.com/file/4xjwcu (http://www.sendspace.com/file/4xjwcu)

[pplcanfly]

I have download all the necessary files for Quickplay 2.3 (for windows XP) using the link posted by Toxico. As suggested by earlier post, i found out that renaming the unallocated ~1024MB of free space to letter X: allow the installation files to proceed to the stage where it will ask you to reboot. However, there is another problem. When I click "OK" to the reboot, the computer basically just restart and stop at a blank black screen.

Initially, i thought this is normal and part of the process but an hour later, nothing happen. I have then reinstalled winXP and followed your instructions in your post #584 but the same thing happen, blank black screen. To me it looks like as if BIOS does not know how to boot up windows XP and got stuck there. Have you got any experience with Boot.ini? My boot.ini before i reboot the computer was

hi isch, i had the same problem but now i know how to fix it:) i'll start from the begining, maybe these informations will help someone else.

first thing is a number of partitions we have on the disk. i had C (primary), D E F G (logical disks on extended partition). i've resized last partition so the free space after all of this partitions was 1gb (1027mb) but every time i started setup, the 5% error occured. i tried to format this 1gb space, left it unallocated etc. but nothing helped. someone in earlier post (sorry i can't find it now) wrote that maximum number of partitions is 4 so i merged E, F and G into one bigger partition with letter E. with this partitioning the setup went ok but after reboot there was that blank black screen which are you isch talking about... i've checked boot.ini file (method with mapping described in earlier post) on the X partition created by quickplay and there was line:
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(4)\WINDOWS
there's 'partition(4)' because i have 3 partition before partition X so this is all right.
only restoring the original xp's MBR helped to normally run xp. while installer was running i saw strange thing in the window where are all partitions listed:
C Partition1........
D Partition3........
E Partition4........
F Partition2........ (this is quickplay's 1gb partition)
as you can see quickplay's partition has number 2, not 4:| i think that primary partitions are numbered first and then logical disks on extended partitions. so i converted in partition magic all logical partitions to primary, installed quickplay again and after reboot quickplay partition booted:) i've checked numbering of partitions in xp installer and now everything was ok:)
but it's not the end of the story...:/ there was next problem... quickplay's partition booted but one second after xp logo showed strange error occured. it looked like blue screen of death in w98, severe error or something, i don't remember. after many experiments i found that the reason was disabled 'SATA native mode' in bios, so i enabled it. quickplay started without any problems, initialized and after reboot the same blue screen showed but while loading normal xp FUUUUUUUCK !?!?!?!?!?!?! i didn't know what's going on. on enabled 'sata native' quickplay worked good, xp crashed. and on disabled 'sata native' quickplay crashed and xp worked good:| on the net i've found document which described how to install sata drivers on hp's notebooks. i tried it and... EVERYTHING WORKS FINE NOW:)
this document you can download from:
http://www.excray.republika.pl/SATA.RTF
geeeeez it took me whole week to install this f*** quickplay;)
maybe these infromations will help someone.

now i'd like to install quickplay for windows but i can't download the files from megaupload.
can someone upload it somewhere else, PLEAAASE???:) thanks:)

SORRY for my english;)

[boeonoz]

I can provided you QuickPlay 3.0 for Vista, Have't test on WinXP.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/3gep1x
(about 80Mb just finished upload)

[pplcanfly]

i tried to install it and it's not working under xp :/

[boeonoz]

umm, I see that file still 0 download.

However, I will try to upload 2.3 when I totally got home.

[pplcanfly]

thanks boeonoz (member.php?u=112015), i had 3.0 version before, but the link will be useful for someone else for sure:) thanks in advance for 2.3:)

[boeonoz]

This is QuickPlay 2.3 For WinXP

http://www.sendspace.com/file/hiiqxe

[pplcanfly]

thanks again boeonoz:) it works great!!

[cullentonry]

Before I read all of this, I reformatted and clean installed XP Pro over Vista on my new dv9000t. WOW; was I in for a suprise. After Native SATA Problems, Wuick Launch Button Malfunctions, You name it... I finally got it functioning correctly after tons of driver downloads, but I had ONE thing bothering me. I couldn't get Quick Play to work. I may never use it and I may hate it; but the bottom line is that it wasn't working!!!

I MUST SAY you guys are AWESOME. After days of torment, I found this thread, downloaded 2.3 and followed Toxico's instruction on page 44. http://www.notebookforums.com/showthread.php?postid=2542025#post2542025
Now, my laptop works the way it is supposed to.

If I can be of ANY assistance to anyone on this forum, please do not hesitate to ask.

I have been through the HP dv9000 and 8000 downgrade from Vista Ulitmate to XP Pro without the assistance of ANY RESTORE DISCS, and now I live to tell the tale.

This thread has helped tremendously and now I am up to full capacity.

Thank You, Thank You, Thank You!!!!!!

[nsurg]

Hey, thanks for the info that you guys have posted. It's amazing how users figure out problems for free when tech support fails.

I am not very sophisticated in this stuff and could not seem to find straight answers by searching, so I was wondering if I could get help with 2 questions...

--after upgrading to vista on my dv9000t, do I want to install quickplay 2.3 or 3.0? It looks like people have 2.3 working, but what differences exist?

--I am unclear about how to proceed with my setup according to the directions on p.44 of this post. Disk management under vista shows disc 0 on my laptop with a 1gb (1029MB) partition at the end that is unallocated (the C drive is symbolized with a blue bar, and the other partition is in black and simply says "1.00gb unallocated"). I am pretty sure I killed my recovery partition when I made recovery disks under XP, and then when I installed vista I don't think I did anything to my original quickplay partition. Am I ready to go for running the program that you guys link to http://www.megaupload.com/es/?d=QVE3S9PU at this time, or do I need to do more?

Thanks for any tips, I just don't want to mess things up even more...

[Toxico]

Hey, thanks for the info that you guys have posted. It's amazing how users figure out problems for free when tech support fails.

I am not very sophisticated in this stuff and could not seem to find straight answers by searching, so I was wondering if I could get help with 2 questions...

--after upgrading to vista on my dv9000t, do I want to install quickplay 2.3 or 3.0? It looks like people have 2.3 working, but what differences exist?

--I am unclear about how to proceed with my setup according to the directions on p.44 of this post. Disk management under vista shows disc 0 on my laptop with a 1gb (1029MB) partition at the end that is unallocated (the C drive is symbolized with a blue bar, and the other partition is in black and simply says "1.00gb unallocated"). I am pretty sure I killed my recovery partition when I made recovery disks under XP, and then when I installed vista I don't think I did anything to my original quickplay partition. Am I ready to go for running the program that you guys link to http://www.megaupload.com/es/?d=QVE3S9PU at this time, or do I need to do more?

Thanks for any tips, I just don't want to mess things up even more...
3.0 is the Windows-based version; the 2.3 that we're usually talking about is the standalone version (in most cases; 2.3 for Windows is mentioned a few times).

You do NOT want the file you linked! That' an old version being kept around for legacy purposes. You want files from here:

http://ridickulous.net/quickplay/

Grab Quickplay 3.0.rar and HPQPDP.rar (or .zip; they're the same thing, just different compression). The first one is the Windows version; the second is the "Direct" or standalone version.

If that 1GB partition is definitely the LAST one on the drive (sounds like it is) then you're good to go. Try installing the standalone version as it is now; if it fails, go back and assign the 1GB partition drive letter X: using Disk Management and try again.


Sorry I haven't been around in a while, folks - Exchange server at work took a dive and we have some whiny users. :P

[nsurg]

3.0 is the Windows-based version; the 2.3 that we're usually talking about is the standalone version (in most cases; 2.3 for Windows is mentioned a few times).

You do NOT want the file you linked! That' an old version being kept around for legacy purposes. You want files from here:

http://ridickulous.net/quickplay/

Grab Quickplay 3.0.rar and HPQPDP.rar (or .zip; they're the same thing, just different compression). The first one is the Windows version; the second is the "Direct" or standalone version.


Whoops, I referred to the wrong link in my post by mistake. Yes, I got those files from the link you mentioned instead. I'll give it a try. Thanks!

[Spanky69]

3.0 is the Windows-based version; the 2.3 that we're usually talking about is the standalone version (in most cases; 2.3 for Windows is mentioned a few times).

You do NOT want the file you linked! That' an old version being kept around for legacy purposes. You want files from here:

http://ridickulous.net/quickplay/

Grab Quickplay 3.0.rar and HPQPDP.rar (or .zip; they're the same thing, just different compression). The first one is the Windows version; the second is the "Direct" or standalone version.

If that 1GB partition is definitely the LAST one on the drive (sounds like it is) then you're good to go. Try installing the standalone version as it is now; if it fails, go back and assign the 1GB partition drive letter X: using Disk Management and try again.


Sorry I haven't been around in a while, folks - Exchange server at work took a dive and we have some whiny users. :P
So ultimately, I'll be wanting to install both versions, so that I can access media without booting windows and also use QuickPlay from within Vista.

Is that correct?

Also, Should I install this?

http://www.cyberlink.com/cinema/hp/quickplay/2_3/hp/enu/item3.jsp

Thanks for all the info :)

[Trailblazer]

Thanks Boeonoz! I've been looking everywhere for 2.3 Windows download!

And Toxico, with your great help I got QP 2.3 Direct going. Great instructions! Thanks heaps!

[Toxico]

So ultimately, I'll be wanting to install both versions, so that I can access media without booting windows and also use QuickPlay from within Vista.

Is that correct?

Also, Should I install this?

http://www.cyberlink.com/cinema/hp/quickplay/2_3/hp/enu/item3.jsp

Thanks for all the info :)

Yes, you'll want both versions. QP for Windows actually isn't a shabby media player.

Once you install 3.0 those updates will be irrelevant. They are for QP Windows 2.3.

[tsupersonic]

What happens if I'm on a Compaq laptop and want to install this? I am running XP and it's a Compaq V5303NR.

[Trailblazer]

Also, no need to download the updates posted here, just start Quickplay (while connected to the Internet) and on the main page, go to the Quickplay looking icon where it will take you to an update page where it will look for updates (skin, application). Choose the update and then it opens a web browser on cyberlink's site where you can download the update.

No idea if it works on Compaq computers. Try it and let us know!

[Toxico]

Also, no need to download the updates posted here, just start Quickplay (while connected to the Internet) and on the main page, go to the Quickplay looking icon where it will take you to an update page where it will look for updates (skin, application). Choose the update and then it opens a web browser on cyberlink's site where you can download the update.

The only thing about that is that, I have noticed, no matter what version you are running it wants to give you the same updates.

[Toxico]

What happens if I'm on a Compaq laptop and want to install this? I am running XP and it's a Compaq V5303NR.

Good question... did you mean the Direct version, or Quickplay for Windows?

I have tried installing Quickplay 3.0 on a different machien, and it refused because the machine was not made by HP. Given that Compaq is under their umbrella, I would think it possible. A quick search shows that some Compaq models do indeed include Quickplay.

I will say this: If your laptop doesn't include Quickplay buttons or a remote, don't even try the Direct version. You'll have no way to start it. :p

[stewnuts]

Almost! I followed the instructions pg 44, for my DV2310US Vista Premium. I wiped the recovery partition and made the 1028 mb. When I came to step 10 (shut down and push the Quickplay button), it goes straight into Vista then QP.

I wonder if it has something to do with my pre-existing QP3 (updated)?

Edit: 5-7-07:

It did work all along. The quickplay button still goes straight into Vista, but last night I pushed the DVD button for the first time and it booted into QP Direct.
Thanks!

[user001]

http://ridickulous.net/quickplay/

download HPQPDP.zip and extract

look in qpw

[user001]

email me for details. i have written specific directions for XP to Vista upgrades and Vista to XP downgrades.

user001
robwhitey at g mail dot com

[user001]

the problem you are having is a result of upgrading the QP software instead of clean install. if you complete a fresh install of os and follow my directions, it will work. 50 laptops and counting...


user001

[user001]

hi isch, i had the same problem but now i know how to fix it:) i'll start from the begining, maybe these informations will help someone else.
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a single hard drive may ONLY contain FOUR primary partitions. to use more, you need to use extended partitions. however, quickplay will ONLY boot from a primary partition. AND it must be the LAST primary partition on a drive.

[user001]

Is that $45 restore disc from HP the same as the Recovery Discs created from the hard drive?


the restore disks from HP are worthless in terms of getting quickplay to run. the only disks that would restore QP would be the backup disks you CREATE when you first turn on your system.

if you want directions for installation, email me...


user001
robwhitey at g mail dot com

[pedrof.amorim]

Hey guys,


I followed everything u guys did... but what's happening when i press the quickplay button to start the program when the computer is on it goes to windows media player... and when i press de button to open the program when the computer is off... it goes to wndows... does anyone know how to help me??

[askh22]

Hi, I am using V3000 series. I tried to following the instructions to install QPD but encounter some errors.
1. every run fine, 1st install of QPD runs. However it start from 5%-- jump to 95%, and a restart...
2. boot back to my original windows... so i though it works and shutdown and try
3. press quickplay button, boot to my windows again!!!(not qpd)
4. I am lost, so tried to change boot.ini to force boot qpd partition.
5. it started to boot, and stuck at a blank screen.

So how to overcome this funny problem?

[leo999]

Looks like ridickulous.net (http://ridickulous.net/) is down. Is there any alternate place I can get the files from? Thanks.