The latest trial version of PowerDVD9 doesn't allow you to use it's H.264 decoder in other applications either.
That should cut down on the amount of downloads, will also stop people updating altogether from 7\8 to 9
This is unfortunately wrong because last patch of powerdvd 8 has the same behaviour so don't update
For some reason, my shop boxed version did not suffer from that when updating, first saw the no h.264 codec with my online purchased 9 ultra
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