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

Express Burn 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. Disable claud.ax for the current use of Express Burn or Prism. 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