How do I disable automatic DivX update popups on Mac OS X

Occasionally when I start viewing a video, an annoying popup dialog promps me whether to install a newer version of DivX Player.

New version of DivX for Mac available

As I do not use DivX Player, is there any way to disable the popup?

Solution 1:

Solution from official forum. It works in my case (Setting option to NEVER fails to work)

https://forums.divx.com/divx/topics/divx_update_notifications_still_appearing_on_mac_after_uninstalling

If the URL is dead then here is the transcript

1. Unload the DivX auto-update and media server agents

   launchctl unload /Library/LaunchAgents/com.divx.update.agent.plist

   launchctl unload /Library/LaunchAgents/com.divx.dms.agent.plist

   launchctl list

   (com.divx.update.agent should not appear in the list)

2. Remove supporting DivX files

   sudo rm /Library/LaunchAgents/com.divx.update.agent.plist

   sudo rm /Library/LaunchAgents/com.divx.dms.agent.plist

   sudo rm -rf /Library/Application\ Support/DivX/

   sudo rm $HOME/Library/Preferences/com.divx.*

--- EOM ---

Solution 2:

Go to System Preferences > DivX and modify the "Check for Updates" setting to Never.

Solution 3:

It seems the new way is to go to Applications->DivX (folder)->Preferences, run that and change the settings for auto-updating.

Solution 4:

I found this advice on: https://discussions.apple.com/message/17048121#17048121

"Here is another sneaky place Divx hides their stuff that "spotlight" did NOT show: Finder: HomeFolder/Library/LaunchAgents/com.divx.agent.postinstall.plist"

Indeed I found this item and deleted it. Remains to be seen if popups stop. There are some other suggestions on that discussion, too.

(To show your library folder, hold down the Alt key while clicking Go in the menu bar)