Winamp visualizations playing when PowerDVD plays movie

[Ikiwt]

I'm having a really odd problem where when I start a movie in PowerDVD, the visualizations from the Winamp plugin directory start to play.

I recently installed PowerDVD 7 Platinum on a new system and whatever visualization is selected for Winamp starts to play over the movie. Depending on how the visualization operates, it can last from around 5 second and then closing on its own, to having to forcibly shut down PowerDVD to stop the visualization, nothing else will stop it from running.

I finally pinpointed the problem by removing all Winamp plugins and moving back just a few at a time until I found which were causing the problem. It's any visualization plugin that PowerDVD doesn't like, all other plugins are fine and don't cause a problem. It's like PowerDVD specifically searches the Winamp\plugin directory, and it happens whether Winamp is loaded or not.

I'm thinking there has to be something wrong in the registry but can anyone suggest something to fix this? (other than permanently deleting all visualizations from Winamp). The visualizations do not start to play when a movie is started with WinDVD, WMP, or Roxio's Cineplayer.

I'm running WinXP Pro with SP2 and all updates are current; Winamp v5.24; Nvidia 7900GT video card; motherboard drivers are most current; not sure what other info might be helpful. Kasperspy AV is always running and uptodate, Spybot S&D and Ad-Aware are run weekly to be sure there's no malware/adware on the system.

I've uninstalled PowerDVD completely and reinstalled it, same problem happens. I've tried installing PowerDVD 6 and same problem.

Anyone have any suggestions why this is happening and how to fix it?

[JonnyMac]

There are various MultiMedia products that can make use of Winamp's plug-ins.
I am not very familiar with PowerDVD. However, at a guess, there might be a option to use Winamps vis plug-ins upon play.

It appears that more of a PowerDVD issue and not directly a Winamp related issue. Have you tried contacting the developer of PowerDVD?

[Ikiwt]

I've checked everywhere in options for anything that might be doing it and there's really nothing about it at all. I've used PowerDVD for probably the last 5 years now and no other version has done this.

And yes, you're right about it bing more of a PowerDVD problem, but Cyberlink (PowerDVD makers) doesn't seem to have a community forum such as this, and I find these forums are generally more useful than a real tech support's cut and paste answer. But I guess contacting them might have to be the next stop.

Thanks.