Access Violation or other crash reported in CLAUD.AX or CLVsd.ax

You application has just crashed and this was caused by the third party codec claud.ax or CLVsd.ax.

These files are is a part of Power DVD. To fix this issue

  1. Please upgrade your installation of Power DVD. This crash can happen when using a very old version of Power DVD on a recent version of Windows.
  2. (For Prism Only) Select the 'Options' on the toobar and then select the tab 'Conversions'. Make sure 'Use FFMPEG first' option is checked. Please try again.
  3. Disable claud.ax for the current use of video application. Open a command prompt

Now type
regsvr32 /u *CLAUD.ax*

Similarly for CLVsd.ax

You can re-register it using

regsvr32 *CLAUD.ax*

Similarly for CLVsd.ax