PowerDVD Ultra (HD-DVD and Blu-Ray)

[darkjedi664]

Well seeing as how people aren't very helpful in this thread and ignore what you post, I'd say good luck to you...

[mlb5000]

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?p=10639655&&#post10639655

I tried making a graph of this, but every time I try to make a connection it tells me that they can't agree on a connection...

edit: nevermind I figured it out. It plays back fine, although I can't find the exact EVO that caused problems in the menus.

[mlb5000]

Could someone help me with this?: I have a monitor with a native resolution of 1366x768 (I think this are the numbers) and a projetor of 1280 x 720. When I use an spliter from the DVI output of the graphics card, can't see the movie because the program asks me to downgrade the signal output (looks like detect something strange). Is there any way to have my TV and projector working together and powerdvd accepts the solution?.
Thanks

How do you have your displays configured? Clone mode, dual-display, etc.

[jorsan]

clone mode. The basic idea is to know if the image of HD dvds can be played in two displays at the same time, or because the copy protection, this is imposible.Thnaks.

[dmunjal]

That's enough to play any h264 disc in software, and way more than enough for VC1. Have you tried the latest 2911 PowerDVD patch?

I'm running the latest 2911 install from scratch and the latest ATI drivers. I tried Dreamgirls, Smokin' Aces, and Alpha Dog with the same results.

Where else can I optimize besides overclocking more?

BTW, I'm running Vista Premium.

[mlb5000]

clone mode. The basic idea is to know if the image of HD dvds can be played in two displays at the same time, or because the copy protection, this is imposible.Thnaks.

I don't believe you will be able to achieve HDCP compliance outputting to two devices. Are each of your devices connected to their own DVI port or is it literally a split signal?

If Ii remember correctly you may only have one display active for HDCP to work. You will likely have to use AnyDVD HD in order to watch it simulateously on both displays.

[sgibson]

Could someone help me with this?: I have a monitor with a native resolution of 1366x768 (I think this are the numbers) and a projetor of 1280 x 720. When I use an spliter from the DVI output of the graphics card, can't see the movie because the program asks me to downgrade the signal output (looks like detect something strange). Is there any way to have my TV and projector working together and powerdvd accepts the solution?.
Thanks

HDCP wont allow HD content output to two separate displays. I found this out using PowerDVD 7.3 and selecting nVidia Dual Display-Clone. When I tried playback I got the message that playback wont continue because of : Wrong video drivers, non-HDCP video card or Do Not use Dual-M (I take that to mean Dual-Monitors).
I have a 1600x1050 LCD Monitor and Infocus IN72 projector. If I select Use Single Display, then PowerDVD 7.3 plays fine. There is a work-around this problem, using 3rd party software, but I prefer to just use single display. Still, it's annoying that consumer doesn't have the option to view both displays simultaniously without having to resort to 3rd party app to bypass HDCP constraints.

[mlb5000]

Does anyone own the HD-DVD "Lucky Number Slevin" along with PowerDVD 7.3 Ultra that you could test for me? My display completely freaks out when I go to scene selection in the menu for that movie. I think it might be the graphics drivers, but I can't say for sure. I'm trying to get some further verification for NVIDIA as to whether it is a PowerDVD issue or a graphics driver issue. All you'll have to do is load the disk, go to scene selection on the main menu...and trust me, you'll know if it happens.

[Gunnar]

I notice that the image is rather dark from PDVD 7.3. I`m using WinXP Pro SP2, 7800GT, 93.71 driver, E4300 CPU. Otherwise the PQ is very good. I want to calibrate the image for my Barco CRT, and would like to make a custom color profile to get a gamma curve that look good on the CRT. Unfortunately, the custom color profile doesn`t seem to do anything in overlay.
I can choose "Overlay" on the Nvidia display property page, and I can make the "Custom" color profile, but it doesn`t affect the video playing in PDVD 7.3. If I choose "Desktop" or "All" I can make a custom color profile that works in eg. Zoomplayer, where I can select VMR9 as renderer, but Overlay is the only renderer used in PDVD7.3 in XP...

Is this a bug in the Nvidia display driver? Very annoying, as the PQ is otherwise excellent, and overlay looks good on my system. Are there any differences using the PDVD 7.3 color controls (accessible when video is running) from using the brightness/contrast controls in the Nvidia display properties?

Gunnar

[inol]

Jorsan:

In my DVI-splitter one of the outputs is considered a master and the other
a slave output. The master output "decides" which resolution to use.

The easiest way i can see to get your system to work is to replace the
graphics card to a dual-DVI card. That way you can have different resolutions
configured for your displays.

/Ingvar

[slimm]

Does anyone own the HD-DVD "Lucky Number Slevin" along with PowerDVD 7.3 Ultra that you could test for me? My display completely freaks out when I go to scene selection in the menu for that movie. I think it might be the graphics drivers, but I can't say for sure. I'm trying to get some further verification for NVIDIA as to whether it is a PowerDVD issue or a graphics driver issue. All you'll have to do is load the disk, go to scene selection on the main menu...and trust me, you'll know if it happens.

I had no problem using scene selection with Lucky Number Slevin. PDVD 7.3 Ultra, 8600 GTS, Nvidia 158.24 drivers.

[mlb5000]

I had no problem using scene selection with Lucky Number Slevin. PDVD 7.3 Ultra, 8600 GTS, Nvidia 158.24 drivers.

Thanks, now I can give NVIDIA a case where it does work.

[jorsan]

Thanks for all the information. My card is a gygabite 8500T so only one DVI output. Because there is no solution and the card is new (no intention to replace it), I'll use it just with the projector. Happy weekend

[chumbawumba]

I'm currently using a 7600GT and PDVD7.3 on a C2D 6420. The playback is a bit jumpy at the start and when the menus etc kick in, so I bought an 8500GT passive.

This worked beautifully in PDVD with very smooth playback and better PQ - for about 5 mins and then it got too hot...

So (and I'm not sure if this is the right post to ask this) does anyone know of either an aftermarket cooler for the 8600GTS (or GT) or one which comes with a quiet fan as-is?

I understand the stock cooler is very noisy on the 8600 cards and I'm fed up with the vacuum cleaner that is the 7600GT!

thanks...

[mlb5000]

I'm currently using a 7600GT and PDVD7.3 on a C2D 6420. The playback is a bit jumpy at the start and when the menus etc kick in, so I bought an 8500GT passive.

This worked beautifully in PDVD with very smooth playback and better PQ - for about 5 mins and then it got too hot...

So (and I'm not sure if this is the right post to ask this) does anyone know of either an aftermarket cooler for the 8600GTS (or GT) or one which comes with a quiet fan as-is?

I understand the stock cooler is very noisy on the 8600 cards and I'm fed up with the vacuum cleaner that is the 7600GT!

thanks...

If you're worried about heat, then you may want to wait for the midrange ATI HD 2000 series chips to come out. They consume something like 26 watts of power (if memory serves) and I would assume that would translate to cooler operation. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.

If you're a gamer, however, no one can really be sure how these will operate w/ the newest DirectX 10 games (or any games for that matter) because of that confounded NDA *shakes fist*.

edit: turns out it's 80 watts of power for the X2600, but it's still a lot better than the 550W power supply requirements of some of NVIDIA's cards. http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/22/ati-radeon-hd-2600-xt-snapped-in-the-wild/

[arfster]

The 8500GT barely needs any airflow - I unplugged the internal fan on mine and now direct a 80mm @ 1000rpm in its direction. No stability problems whatsoever.

[Rathbone]

I can see aliasing effects on my 8600GT in PowerDVD 7.3. I did not have these with my ATI. Is there a driver setting that influences this issue?

[bigian13]

So I just got around to installing the newest patch (5/28/07) and it still won't play blu-ray. I uninstalled, deleted the installshield folder, cleaned the registry, put back the 2605 version, and it STILL won't play blu-ray.

The drive itself works fine, it recognizes the blu-ray discs, only powerdvd won't play them.

First, did I miss something when cleaning up? I deleted every cyberlink file and registry entry I could find.

Second, does anyone know where I could find the full version of the build 2911? The password for the cyberlink download expired on the 4th.

EDIT: Never mind, I got it fixed with more digging. Amazing what sleep will let you do. Still, does anyone know if I can find the 2911 full install file somewhere?

[jorsan]

Some of us are using PowerDVD ultra for HD and Theatertek for SD because the possibilities that this last program offfers with the option of FFDShow and other tools to manipulate the image. What can we do in this respect with PowerDVD today and what can we espect for the future? could be great if they add more tools for processing the image or maybe the option of use FFDShow; this way we could use one program for all.
Another question... are there any other skins arround besides the regular one that comes standard with the program and one that I download of a "bettle car" ? , maybe there are more but cant find them .

[deandob]

Through all the versions of PDVD up to the latest patch, I can't seem to get rid of the default subtitles "on" behaviour. Using AnyDVD most of the time editing the VPL file helps but not always.

I must be missing something here - the subtitles button on the PDVD control bar will toggle the subtitle language but not remove them. Previous posters have mentioned to turn subtitles off while the movie is playing by selecting the menu and switching off subtitles, however I can't get the HD-DVD menu up (using arrow keys, mouse or the title/root menu options on the right click menu does nothing).

I'm really sick of editing the VPL file to remove subtitles, especially when this occassionally does not work. Surely I'm not alone, but this is not a topic that comes up often in this thread now, so what do others do to remove the frustrating subtitles????

Many thanks for your help.

Dean

[babgvant]

I'm currently using a 7600GT and PDVD7.3 on a C2D 6420. The playback is a bit jumpy at the start and when the menus etc kick in, so I bought an 8500GT passive.

This worked beautifully in PDVD with very smooth playback and better PQ - for about 5 mins and then it got too hot...

So (and I'm not sure if this is the right post to ask this) does anyone know of either an aftermarket cooler for the 8600GTS (or GT) or one which comes with a quiet fan as-is?

I understand the stock cooler is very noisy on the 8600 cards and I'm fed up with the vacuum cleaner that is the 7600GT!

thanks...

I have this (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814133199) 8600gt and it's pretty quiet.

[lsdavinci]

Before I start a new thread, I'll ask it here:

I bought the DVE HD-DVD disc and meant to use it with PowerDVD but for some reason, this version has no instructions at all. So now I feel like a complete noob. Does anyone know of a good source as to how to use these test patterns? :o

[MickeyDora]

Before I start a new thread, I'll ask it here:

I bought the DVE HD-DVD disc and meant to use it with PowerDVD but for some reason, this version has no instructions at all. So now I feel like a complete noob. Does anyone know of a good source as to how to use these test patterns? :o

Instructions should be on the SD side. Watch it, take a few notes, and then flip the disc and do the HD side.

[Vern Dias]

Surely I'm not alone, but this is not a topic that comes up often in this thread now, so what do others do to remove the frustrating subtitles????You can make sure that the most recent version of PowerDVD Ultra is actually "Installed" and being used on your system.

When you start PowerDVD, does the splash screen contain the work "Ultra" in script on it?

If not, you need to find a way of totally removing the old version (making sure that you actually have the full install rather than the upgrade version of the latest PowerDVD. The latest versions do not have this problem.

The is a full set of instructions on how to do this earlier in this thread.

Vern

[Vern Dias]

but for some reason, this version has no instructions at all. The insert gives you a web site for the documentation on the HD version.

Vern

[deandob]

Thanks Vern.

You are probably right, I have uninstalled / installed PDVD so many times with so many versions that something is persisting (registry or files) from an old version. I'll try a Vista rebuild and see if that makes a difference.

Regards,
Dean

[lsdavinci]

DOH!!!! and DOH!!!!!
I will check both sources tonight. Thanks! and DOH!!!! again. :o

[WilliamG]

If you're worried about heat, then you may want to wait for the midrange ATI HD 2000 series chips to come out. They consume something like 26 watts of power (if memory serves) and I would assume that would translate to cooler operation. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.

If you're a gamer, however, no one can really be sure how these will operate w/ the newest DirectX 10 games (or any games for that matter) because of that confounded NDA *shakes fist*.

edit: turns out it's 80 watts of power for the X2600, but it's still a lot better than the 550W power supply requirements of some of NVIDIA's cards. http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/22/ati-radeon-hd-2600-xt-snapped-in-the-wild/

Absolutely no Nvidia card needs a 550watt PSU. People run 8800GTXs all day long on 400watt PSUs.

[heartsurgeon]

Any comments on the following:
i have ripped DVD's on my hard rdives that i have viewed many times before. Updated to Powerdvd Ultra (HD). Now, I cannot play the ripped content from my hard drives? what's up with that? Do I need to install the older version of powerdvd to play my ripped standard def dvd's?

[daniel_owen_uk]

Ok my little addition;

Just built a new PC mainly for the playback of HD files.

Nothing special hardware wise, 3200+ a64, 2GB RAM, 8500GT

Installed vista + latest nvidia drivers + nvidia purevideo + latest version of PDVD (7.3.2911)

VC1 plays lovely, h264 no dice, just a black screen, been trying to source PDVD (7.3.2605) to test that but can't find it anywhere.

[RichB]

Absolutely no Nvidia card needs a 550watt PSU. People run 8800GTXs all day long on 400watt PSUs.

I had problems with a Seasonic 430 watt power supply with my 8800/4600+ system. I upgraded to a 530 watt Seasonic with no problems. The problem arises with the total current required on the 12 volt rails. Although my peak power under load was only 230watts.

Since then I "upgraded" to a 8500GT which works the same on AVC, Mpeg, but much better on AVC. Sold my 8800 on Ebay for an $60 profit :p

Also, my system uses on 130watts under full load now. For non-gaming, HTPC, the 8500 is a great card.

- Rich

[daniel_owen_uk]

The problem is PSU suppliers overstating what their products can do.

Lower quality suppliers will say they can produce 500w but at what temperature? -100c?

[RichB]

The problem is PSU suppliers overstating what their products can do.

Lower quality suppliers will say they can produce 500w but at what temperature? -100c?

True, but to be fair, the Seasonic is a high quality power supply.
There are two basic problems:

- 12 Volt power is where most power is required.
- Lower noise power supplies are designed to remove their heat and not necessarily ALL of the heat of the case.

The 8800GTS is like putting a toaster into your computer even though it vents externally. The card itself still adds a lot of heat to your case. That is why for HT, new cards like an 8500 (HDCP) version or newer ATI cards coming down the road are much better choices.

- Rich

[daniel_owen_uk]

Ok my little addition;

Just built a new PC mainly for the playback of HD files.

Nothing special hardware wise, 3200+ a64, 2GB RAM, 8500GT

Installed vista + latest nvidia drivers + nvidia purevideo + latest version of PDVD (7.3.2911)

VC1 plays lovely, h264 no dice, just a black screen, been trying to source PDVD (7.3.2605) to test that but can't find it anywhere.

LOL ok turns out I didn't have 7.3.2911, update to that version now, H264 plays sweet as a nut, low CPU, video plays smooth, Hardware Acceleration listed as "in use". VC-1 won't play at all.

[saintsaints]

I think I'm the only one with brotherhood of the wolf in here, but I try anyways. I can't get the english subs to turn on. I go to the subtitle menu in Wolf and it shows a picture of a remote control with A B C D to select where you want your subs located on the screen eg. lower or higher on the screen. Pressing ABCD does nothing so I click the mouse once. Takes me back to the main dvd menu and I click film to play, but no subs. Tried for an hour, subtitle option in PD7.3 greyed out. Letter from Ito Jima subs work fine. Also tried launching xpl and cid file, from hard drive, from hd-dvd no luck on subs. I don't have a hardware player.

[Dessie]

I have just installed the Gigabyte 8500gt and I am using the latest version of Powerdvd ultra in XP. The problem that I am have is that no matter what drivers I use I cannot keep the tick in the hardware acceleration box. An example is with Casino Royale, when the intro's on the disc is playing the tick is in the box but when the movie itself starts the tick is gone and I am using software mode. I have confirmed that it is not in use in the info panel in Powerdvd and also by my cpu usage. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

[K40]

Hardware acceleration of Purevideo HD and H264 is not yet available for
8500/8600 series and XP.New driver for XP should come this month.

[jorsan]

I have this issue for long time and couldn't find a solution, I though PDVD ultra could solve it but not: when I wach dvd music concert videos, in some of them, appears what looks like a gost or a second blury image; some told me that is a deinterlace problem but I try to modify some aspects in the PDVD ULtra but couldnt get perfect picture. One example of a video that shows this problem is the Cream concert in the royal albert hall. Thanks

[PapaSloth]

OK, here's an odd one...

Athlon XP X2 4500+, ATI Radeon X1950 Pro, PDVD 2605n.
Perfectly smooth playback with DVI to HDMI cable going direct
to JVC RS1 at 1080p60. Also perfectly smooth going through
a Monoprice 4x1 HDMI switcher.

However, when I run the HDMI through an Onkyo TX-DS604,
I get jerky playback and high CPU usage. I have no idea why
having the receiver in there makes a difference, but it does.

Anyone else seen anything like this? Any ideas? I could
update to 2911, but everything else is working great when I go
direct to the RS1, and I hesitate to risk it...

[mattman734]

I have a question if anyone an help
.
I have a
8800gts
4000+ AMD
2 Gig ram
SB Audigy 2
.
and trying to play HDDVD i have all the updates and stuff for everything but VC-1 HDDVDs dont play back right ... i did get king knong to work ok for some reason but at next to 100% CPU use but everything else like F&F slideshow after about 5 sec.
.
Every other HDDVD codec seems to work ok with about 75% CPU but i guess its because the video card dosent accelerating VC-1 enough to work smooth on a 4000+.
.
Anyone have any tips or should i just forget it and hope for a pacth later or somthing.

[AnthonyB]

Matt,

Upgade your CPU. Worked for me.

But what version of PowerDVD are you running

[mattman734]

Matt,

Upgade your CPU. Worked for me.

But what version of PowerDVD are you running
I installed the latest pacth so that i guess

[ReneV]

Is anyone aware of a detailed write-up about the deinterlacing options in 7.3, other than the paltry paragraph in the manual?

I'm particularly interested in the 4 modes I see on my machine for performing hardware deinterlacing: two GUIDs, it seems, and "BOB (no deinterlacing)" and "Weave (hardware deinterlacing)". [edit: I may have swapped the parenthetical comments for BOB and Weave.]

(I'm using an 8600GT card that is driven by 101.02 under XP, with hardware acceleration enabled and active, and the Purevideo HD logo showing on the default PowerDVD screen. I'm currently only using PowerDVD for HD DVD and I have both 1080p and 1080i sources.)

[PapaSloth]

OK, here's an odd one...

Athlon XP X2 4500+, ATI Radeon X1950 Pro, PDVD 2605n.
Perfectly smooth playback with DVI to HDMI cable going direct
to JVC RS1 at 1080p60. Also perfectly smooth going through
a Monoprice 4x1 HDMI switcher.

However, when I run the HDMI through an Onkyo TX-DS604,
I get jerky playback and high CPU usage. I have no idea why
having the receiver in there makes a difference, but it does.

Anyone else seen anything like this? Any ideas? I could
update to 2911, but everything else is working great when I go
direct to the RS1, and I hesitate to risk it...

I upgraded my graphics drivers to Catalyst 7.5 and PDVD to
2911. Now I'm getting HDCP errors instead of jerky playback,
so I guess all the CPU was due to some sort of HDCP issue, and
that 2911 just gives up instead of trying to simultaneously
negotiate HDCP and play at the same time.

Searching around, I've seen a couple of mentions of issues using
Radeons with HDCP via "repeaters," such as switching receivers.
This appears to be due to the drivers not being 100% compliant
with the HDMI spec covering repeaters. So, if anyone is seeing
choppy performance, that's something to try: make sure you're
going direct to your display instead of through a repeater.

I sure hope _someone_ fixes this. I paid extra to get a receiver
that switches HDMI, and now I can't even use that feature. Oh well,
curse of being an early adopter.

[JAHarris]

Hi,

Is PDVD Ultra controllable via IR remote? If so, how are folks doing this?

Please tell me there is support for something like the usbuirt, or a girder .gml at the very least.

TIA

J

[R10KYJ]

Hi,

Is PDVD Ultra controllable via IR remote? If so, how are folks doing this?

Please tell me there is support for something like the usbuirt, or a girder .gml at the very least.

TIA

J

I use the MCE remote without any problems.

Ricky

[JAHarris]

I use the MCE remote without any problems.

Thanks for the info Ricky. Did you have to configure this in some way, or did PDVD Ultra respond to the remote out of the box? Can I also assume the MCE remote includes some sort of IR receiver?

TIA

J

[PapaSloth]

Thanks for the info Ricky. Did you have to configure this in some way, or did PDVD Ultra respond to the remote out of the box? Can I also assume the MCE remote includes some sort of IR receiver?

The MCE remote came with a receiver. Mine just worked out of the box, but I'm running XP MCE 2005, so I'm not sure what part of that is handled by MCE-specific software, if any, and what part is just a normal part of the device drivers.

[Patrick McGuire]

Found the problem why I couldn't run HD DVD discs or files on my AMD 4000+/NV7800GT. Using PowerDVD and AnyDVD.

My SB0570 Audigy SE was causing a conflict that hard locked the computer whenever I tried to play HD DVD from the 360 drive or play files off the hard drive. Also, never saw cpu below 100%. Removed the sound board and lo and behold, perfect studder free playback at between 60 and 75% average, 90% peak cpu usage.

Yes, the 94.24 Forceware does have hardware accel enabled, at least for King Kong(VC-1?). With hardware accel unchecked in PowerDVD, usage goes to 100% constant. Now I just need to find a solution for sound that doesn't lock my sytem and uses minimal cpu. Any "sound" suggestions? TIA

[t30t28t16t12]

Patrick,
Are you certain that 94.24/7800GT support hardware accel? Mine always studders when I tried to enable it.

Found the problem why I couldn't run HD DVD discs or files on my AMD 4000+/NV7800GT. Using PowerDVD and AnyDVD.

My SB0570 Audigy SE was causing a conflict that hard locked the computer whenever I tried to play HD DVD from the 360 drive or play files off the hard drive. Also, never saw cpu below 100%. Removed the sound board and lo and behold, perfect studder free playback at between 60 and 75% average, 90% peak cpu usage.

Yes, the 94.24 Forceware does have hardware accel enabled. With hardware accel unchecked in PowerDVD, usage goes to 100% constant. Now I just need to find a solution for sound that doesn't lock my sytem and uses minimal cpu. Any "sound" suggestions? TIA

[Patrick McGuire]

Windows task manager says so. The highest I saw was 93% for a instant. Without HA, straight-lined 100%. Think i'm going to get away from Creative crap. Maybe a motherboard with onboard DTS connect. Possibly an Asus Crosshair.

If I were you, I would look for a conflict, check you processes in Task Mgr. and turn off what you think might be causing a problem. You wouldn't have a Creative sound board would you?

Good Luck!

[Patrick McGuire]

Moved sound board to another slot and uninstalled the non-certified newer driver and installed original disc driver for Audigy. Sound and video now perfect with no stutter and cpu averaging 75%, with peaks near 97%. Doesn't touch 100% now at all.

Shucks, I guess I've got to keep this old heap of a computer for a while. Apologies to all those Creative lovers, all three of you. Ha Ha just funnin ya. See Ya, gotta watch some HD.

[Axel Olmos]

I think it does. I suspect he's referring to a situation where the HDMI cable is plugged into a receiver instead of directly to the TV. The HDMI circuitry designates this as a "repeater" (the receiver is "repeating" the signal to another device-- the TV), and for some reason PowerDVD seems to trigger an HDCP-violation related to this while in DVD mode.

I just hit this PowerDVD Ultra bug with my new Onkyo 805 receiver, so now I can't use the HDMI switching until Cyberlink fixes this. I opened up a ticket with them, hopefully they respond with something other than "we don't support HDMI repeaters".

[PapaSloth]

I just hit this PowerDVD Ultra bug with my new Onkyo 805 receiver, so now I can't use the HDMI switching until Cyberlink fixes this. I opened up a ticket with them, hopefully they respond with something other than "we don't support HDMI repeaters".

I have this problem too with an ATI X1950 Pro and an Onkyo TX-SR604 receiver. Are you, by any chance, running a Radeon too? Because I've seen it suggested that this is an ATI driver issue and not (or not just) a PowerDVD issue.

[Axel Olmos]

I installed the latest Power DVD Ultra patches and the problem has gone away!! I was running an nvidia 8500 and Vista.

[MKANET]

Can anyone please tell what's wrong:

I just got a brand new PC with Blu-Ray + HD-DVD. If I play either format, the video will start off choppy with no sound... and progresively get slower and slower within a few seconds to where the video is moving forward at a snail's pace. My machine's hardware is already capable for playing both format (as it was shipped with HD-DVD and Blu-Ray discs). Like dummy, I didnt bother trying the stock HD-DVD / Blu-Ray software and uninstalled it and installed brand new PowerDVD in its place.

Anyway whats wrong??

1) Geforce 8500GT 512MB
2) Lastest WHQL certified drvier from Nvidia's website for VISTA 32
3) Lastest PowerDVD patch for version 7.3 Deluxe (Ultra Edition)
4) Quad Core processor 2.4GHz.
5) 4 GB system RAM.
6) Vista Ultimate

NOTES:

- All my video driver options are at their defaults.
- PowerDVD cpu usage is at 3% and Svchost.exe is around 20% or less.
- Hardware accelleration is on by default. If I turn it off, the video reacts the same way.

[hamish b]

what are using as sound output

maybe thats playing up and vista is trying to keep the video playback in sync with the sound

[MKANET]

I have a creative labs Xi-Fi with regular stereo out. It is selected as stero in PowerDVD as well. I have tried Spdif and HDMI audio out as well and it does the same exact thing.

what are using as sound output

maybe thats playing up and vista is trying to keep the video playback in sync with the sound

[hamish b]

im stumped

the only other thing i can think of is setting the affinity under the task menu process page to one cpu


does the 8500 hace pci-e power seperate power supply connector, maybe thats come loose

but im clutching at straws here though

[Thuppu]

Does someone know how to move the subs up and down in PDVD Ultra? Or how to get the subs wisible? I have a small problem with "Brotherhood of the wolf" HD DVD... http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?p=10867541&&#post10867541

[Rathbone]

Does someone know how to move the subs up and down in PDVD Ultra? Or how to get the subs wisible? I have a small problem with "Brotherhood of the wolf" HD DVD... http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?p=10867541&&#post10867541

I have this problem with all titles of the new Studio Canal wave (BotW, Serpico, T2 etc.)

[MKANET]

Can anyone help me? I'm not sure what to try. I already tried the most obvious by getting the latest patch and display adapter driver. What I'm trying to play was even possible on my 4 year old machine (VC1). It must be something pretty simple. Anyone??

EDIT: All tests passed 100% for BD-HD advisor's HD-DVD and Blu-Ray playback

Can anyone please tell what's wrong:

I just got a brand new PC with Blu-Ray + HD-DVD. If I play either format, the video will start off choppy with no sound... and progresively get slower and slower within a few seconds to where the video is moving forward at a snail's pace. My machine's hardware is already capable for playing both format (as it was shipped with HD-DVD and Blu-Ray discs). Like dummy, I didnt bother trying the stock HD-DVD / Blu-Ray software and uninstalled it and installed brand new PowerDVD in its place.

Anyway whats wrong??

1) Geforce 8500GT 512MB
2) Lastest WHQL certified drvier from Nvidia's website for VISTA 32
3) Lastest PowerDVD patch for version 7.3 Deluxe (Ultra Edition)
4) Quad Core processor 2.4GHz.
5) 4 GB system RAM.
6) Vista Ultimate

NOTES:

- All my video driver options are at their defaults.
- PowerDVD cpu usage is at 3% and Svchost.exe is around 20% or less.
- Hardware accelleration is on by default. If I turn it off, the video reacts the same way.

[Axel Olmos]

Can anyone help me? I'm not sure what to try. I already tried the most obvious by getting the latest patch and display adapter driver. What I'm trying to play was even possible on my 4 year old machine (VC1). It must be something pretty simple. Anyone??

EDIT: All tests passed 100% for BD-HD advisor's HD-DVD and Blu-Ray playback

Make sure hardware acceleration is checked on under the Power DVD configuration when video playback is stopped.

Other than that-
If you have a system restore point before you changed anything, I would roll back to that...

[MKANET]

Hardware acceleration is on. The only thing that changed was installing PowerDVD

Make sure hardware acceleration is checked on under the Power DVD configuration when video playback is stopped.

Other than that-
If you have a system restore point before you changed anything, I would roll back to that...

[Paul Bigelow]

I would have thought the processor at quick reading as I have seen processor-starved (even at 3GHz) systems behave that stuttering, slideshow way. Quad-core Q6700 should have no problem. I use a Duocore E6700 and no problems.

What motherboard is used? I use an ASUS P5N32E-SLi. It's an nVidia-based 680i chipset with high FSB numbers. I use 2 2GB 800MHz Patriot RAM. I have used EVGA 8800GTS and 8600GTS successfully with PowerDVD 7.3 Ultra with both Blu-Ray and HD-DVD.

Just for grins, what is the Windows Experience Index (found in the Vista Welcome Center)? Mine is 5.3 and it is the E6700 that makes it so or the score would be even higher. I am not tweaking voltages or clocks at all. Maybe something will show up in the score to point the way.

[MKANET]

Okay... I've got a puzzle for you guys... why am I able to play both Blu-Ray and HD-DVD's flawlessly with HP's OEM PowerDVD version that comes free with my new HP; but the >$100 PowerDVD I just bought wont play anything. The one I bought will play the video extremely slow without sound (Ill hear a split second of the sound every once in a while while the video is skipping).

I emailed PowerDVD support but got a surprisingly lame reply back which a 6 year old kid could suggest. Is there a way to talk to someone at Cyberlink that can actually help? Afterall I did spend $100 and I cant use it on a HD-DVD + Blu-Ray certified PC.

[Tulli]

You need a CLEAN install of PDVD 7.3. So make sure that after uninstalling the OEM version there's no trace left of it in the system. There's a faster way to do this than having to manually delete entries in the registry and the HD, that was amply discussed previously in this thread when the 2911 patch was released.

[MKANET]

That's not the cause of the problem, as I have already done a super clean uninstall of both products. Not one mention of "Cyberlink" anywhere in my registry or filesystem. Whatever it is, it looks more like a bug with this release of PowerDVD. I'm not sure how to move forward with this.

You need a CLEAN install of PDVD 7.3. So make sure that after uninstalling the OEM version there's no trace left of it in the system. There's a faster way to do this than having to manually delete entries in the registry and the HD, that was amply discussed previously in this thread when the 2911 patch was released.

[John DeLuca]

I'm not sure how to move forward with this.

One thing I would possibly try is download a trial version of AnyDVD HD. First, with that running, try and play them from disc and see if you its any better. You could also try and rip the disc to the hard drive and see if you get better results.

People have mentioned that even though their system passes the Cyberlink advisor, they still need to run AnyDVD HD to get good results. It's worth a shot.

[MKANET]

HDCP isn't the issue either. I already have a HDCP + HDMI display adapter with respective display. Since this PC is already certified to play Blu-Ray + HD-DVD right out of the box, my guess is that there's something wrong with this particular version of PowerDVD. What I'm scared of is contacting Cyberlink to fix this problem. :(

I'm guessing I'm not the only person in the world with an HP Pavilion Media Center m8010y series PC (Quadcore CPU + HD-DVD + Blu-Ray bybrid ROM drive). But, I might possibly be the first person who installed this version of Cyberlink on this PC since its brand new.

Thanks for any further suggestions you guys have to offer. I'm guessing this forum thread is better than Cyberlink's own support. I'm not sure if it will help for me to buy Cyberlinks Voice support to speak to someone in India.

One thing I would possibly try is download a trial version of AnyDVD HD. First, with that running, try and play them from disc and see if you its any better. You could also try and rip the disc to the hard drive and see if you get better results.

People have mentioned that even though their system passes the Cyberlink advisor, they still need to run AnyDVD HD to get good results. It's worth a shot.

[RichB]

HDCP isn't the issue either. I already have a HDCP + HDMI display adapter with respective display. Since this PC is already certified to play Blu-Ray + HD-DVD right out of the box, my guess is that there's something wrong with this particular version of PowerDVD. What I'm scared of is contacting Cyberlink to fix this problem. :(

I'm guessing I'm not the only person in the world with an HP Pavilion Media Center m8010y series PC (Quadcore CPU + HD-DVD + Blu-Ray bybrid ROM drive). But, I might possibly be the first person who installed this version of Cyberlink on this PC since its brand new.

Thanks for any further suggestions you guys have to offer. I'm guessing this forum thread is better than Cyberlink's own support. I'm not sure if it will help for me to buy Cyberlinks Voice support to speak to someone in India.

I would submit a support request to Cyberlink. They do tend to get back to you and if there is a internal version they will give it to you.

- Rich

[MKANET]

Thanks, I just did. They seemed to be pretty responsive and asked some pretty good questions. They are already forwarding this issue to the R & D department. Hopefully this is a known issue since they do have a business relationship with HP.

I would submit a support request to Cyberlink. They do tend to get back to you and if there is a internal version they will give it to you.

- Rich

[bennynihon]

I've got PowerDVD 7.3 (w/ latest patch) up and running with the latest official Geforce 94.24 drivers on WinXP x32.

My machine is rather modest (dual-core Opteron 165 overclocked @ 2.25 GHz, and integrated Geforce 6150 graphics), but it suprisingly plays most HD-DVDs very smoothly even with no hardware acceleration. CPU usage is typically around 80% for both cores.

Here's the problem. My machine can't keep up with all movies without some hardware acceleration. King Kong is an example. There are certain scenes where it drops lots of frames, while most scenes do playback fine. When I turn on hardware acceleration I avoid dropping those frames, but even the simplest of scenes are not played as smoothly. It's difficult to explain, but there's jerkiness that is not experienced with hardware acceleration turned off.

I know others have witnessed this same problem. Although CPU usage goes down with hardware acceleration, the movie playback is less fluid then with it off. It appears that Nvidia/PowerDVD don't have the use of the hardware acceleration ironed out.

Have others found a way to rectify this problem? Perhaps a certain combination of PowerDVD and drivers are less jerky with hardware acceleration turned on?

I've used Reclock, and this doesn't help the hardware acceleration problem.

I appreciate any help.

[arfster]

Hardware acceleration with <7600gt will screw things up rather than help :-( That's why it's the min requirement for PDVD.

[Axel Olmos]

I've got PowerDVD 7.3 (w/ latest patch) up and running with the latest official Geforce 94.24 drivers on WinXP x32.

My machine is rather modest (dual-core Opteron 165 overclocked @ 2.25 GHz, and integrated Geforce 6150 graphics), but it suprisingly plays most HD-DVDs very smoothly even with no hardware acceleration. CPU usage is typically around 80% for both cores.

Here's the problem. My machine can't keep up with all movies without some hardware acceleration. King Kong is an example. There are certain scenes where it drops lots of frames, while most scenes do playback fine. When I turn on hardware acceleration I avoid dropping those frames, but even the simplest of scenes are not played as smoothly. It's difficult to explain, but there's jerkiness that is not experienced with hardware acceleration turned off.

I know others have witnessed this same problem. Although CPU usage goes down with hardware acceleration, the movie playback is less fluid then with it off. It appears that Nvidia/PowerDVD don't have the use of the hardware acceleration ironed out.

Have others found a way to rectify this problem? Perhaps a certain combination of PowerDVD and drivers are less jerky with hardware acceleration turned on?

I've used Reclock, and this doesn't help the hardware acceleration problem.

I appreciate any help.

I have an AMD x64 3200, had the same problem, bought an Nvidia 8500 video card, and upgraded to Power DVD Ultra. Problem gone. (It was easier for me to add a video card than buy a new motherboard, cpu, ram, etc.) The good news about this solution is that I was trying to accelerate HDR-SR1 ACDHD videos I was shooting with my camcorder, and the 8500/8600 were the only cards at the time that would do it.

[Damodred]

Just a short question:

Anyone else who had conflicts with Creatives soundcards and hardware acceleration? mkanet on page 77 reports no hardware acceleration and I have the same problem. Differences would be that Im on a htpc that is only modest i comparison with a Creative X-Fi. I know I could just open the case and remove the card and try again but I feel totally lost inside a case...

[jmb295]

I have PowerDVD Ultra working with my 8500GT, and I am able to get smooth playback off of my HD-DVD drive. The problem arrives when I try and pause the video, if I leave it paused for any length of time and then hit play it causes PowerDVD to crash.

Any ideas on this?

[bennynihon]

I have PowerDVD Ultra working with my 8500GT, and I am able to get smooth playback off of my HD-DVD drive. The problem arrives when I try and pause the video, if I leave it paused for any length of time and then hit play it causes PowerDVD to crash.

Any ideas on this?

Get the latest patch. Search this thread.

[bennynihon]

I've got PowerDVD 7.3 (w/ latest patch) up and running with the latest official Geforce 94.24 drivers on WinXP x32.

My machine is rather modest (dual-core Opteron 165 overclocked @ 2.25 GHz, and integrated Geforce 6150 graphics), but it suprisingly plays most HD-DVDs very smoothly even with no hardware acceleration. CPU usage is typically around 80% for both cores.

Here's the problem. My machine can't keep up with all movies without some hardware acceleration. King Kong is an example. There are certain scenes where it drops lots of frames, while most scenes do playback fine. When I turn on hardware acceleration I avoid dropping those frames, but even the simplest of scenes are not played as smoothly. It's difficult to explain, but there's jerkiness that is not experienced with hardware acceleration turned off.

I know others have witnessed this same problem. Although CPU usage goes down with hardware acceleration, the movie playback is less fluid then with it off. It appears that Nvidia/PowerDVD don't have the use of the hardware acceleration ironed out.

Have others found a way to rectify this problem? Perhaps a certain combination of PowerDVD and drivers are less jerky with hardware acceleration turned on?

I've used Reclock, and this doesn't help the hardware acceleration problem.

I appreciate any help.

OK, I rolled back to PowerDVD 7.1, and it seems to play much better than 7.3 without hardware acceleration. I can now watch HD-DVDs even on my 6150 without any stuttering. I also switched to the 165.02 Forceware drivers, and that seems to have improved things ever so slightly as well.

[ashwincr]

I am running vista 64 bit Ultimate with powerdvd 2911 build. I am running the gigabyte 8500GT with 160.04 WHQL drivers.
What I have seen are
powerdvd plays 720p h264 files fine and I do have hardware acceleration.
powerdvd fails on 1080p h264 files. I was able to play these using zoom player 5.5 alpha using ffdshow decoderrs and EVR.
The major problems with powerdvd start when playing hddvd's or bluray movies wither from my harddrive or from the disk drive. First vista goes into basic mode whenever I play them. The movies itself play fine when power dvd is windowed, but as soon as I go full screen, the video starts flashing and most times I end up with a blank screen with no video, but audio is still playing correctly. I cannot get any video on my monitor even if I press Alt+F4 to kill powerdvd and the only way to restore video is to reset the PC.

I only have a single monitor so I am not running clone mode, and I have an Athlon 3800+ X2 which should be plenty. Any ideas about whats going on? Vista going into basic mode tells me powerdvd might not be using EVR. is there a way to force it to use EVR?
forgot to mention, this is on a fresh vista installation and powerdvd was upgraded to 2911 from 2605.

[Damodred]

Anyone else who had conflicts with Creatives soundcards and hardware acceleration? mkanet on page 77 reports no hardware acceleration and I have the same problem. Differences would be that Im on a htpc that is only modest i comparison with a Creative X-Fi. I know I could just open the case and remove the card and try again but I feel totally lost inside a case...

Quoting myself here. I just removed my Creative X-Fi card and tried to play the same movies again. Mpeg4 AVC went down from 80-100% cpu usage to...2-18%... Still got problems with VC-1 tho but hopefully a reinstallation of nVidia drivers and PowerDVD will solve that.

[ashwincr]

I am running vista 64 bit Ultimate with powerdvd 2911 build. I am running the gigabyte 8500GT with 160.04 WHQL drivers.
What I have seen are
powerdvd plays 720p h264 files fine and I do have hardware acceleration.
powerdvd fails on 1080p h264 files. I was able to play these using zoom player 5.5 alpha using ffdshow decoderrs and EVR.
The major problems with powerdvd start when playing hddvd's or bluray movies wither from my harddrive or from the disk drive. First vista goes into basic mode whenever I play them. The movies itself play fine when power dvd is windowed, but as soon as I go full screen, the video starts flashing and most times I end up with a blank screen with no video, but audio is still playing correctly. I cannot get any video on my monitor even if I press Alt+F4 to kill powerdvd and the only way to restore video is to reset the PC.

I only have a single monitor so I am not running clone mode, and I have an Athlon 3800+ X2 which should be plenty. Any ideas about whats going on? Vista going into basic mode tells me powerdvd might not be using EVR. is there a way to force it to use EVR?
forgot to mention, this is on a fresh vista installation and powerdvd was upgraded to 2911 from 2605.

I tested this on XP 32 bit installed on a different partition, with 160.03 nvidia drivers and powerdvd 2911. I seem to have the same problems in XP! powerdvd plays HD-DVD's fine in windowed mode, but the video starts flickering (especially during the HD-DVD title menu) and usually ends up with no video.

[Aitor Ibarra]

Does anyone know a way to get PowerDVD to quit via an MCE remote? Also to get at some of the functions you normally need keyboard shortcuts for, like the information overlay or zoom?

[arfster]

No offence guys, but if you use a leaked internal test version (ie 160.04) then you can't expect things to work properly. There's a reason why it was never released publically.

Anyway, 162.15 is out as the new beta, both for XP and Vista.

[ashwincr]

160.04 are WHQL certified drivers.
but I'll give the latest official drivers a shot.. I could not get my desktop to scale (resize) with the 158.xx drivers though.

[MKANET]

I failed to mention that my system does have another sound card... however, it's currently not the system default. Cyberlink suggested I disable my second sound card. I replied back by telling them to fix their software and that disabling my sound card is not a fix for my problem.

Both of my sound cards (Creative Xi Fi and Realtek HD audio) use a Windows Hardware Compatibility publisher driver for Vista and are WHQL certified for Vista.

Cyberlink is the most expensive useless piece of st software Ive ever bought. I dont ever remember having these many issues under previous MS OS's

[Rathbone]

If you don't play games on your HTPC or don't need EAX, do not buy a X-Fi. This card "bends" the PCI standard to fit the X-Fi features. I had one and had nothing but trouble with it, mostly with non game applications like Software DVD Players and Audio Software.

Now I have a card with CMI8768+ chipset and quite happy (except the lousy Vista drivers). Will buy a CMI8788 soon.

[Damodred]

Thats interesting to hear, for some reason it makes sense that it would be conflicts between Vista and X-Fi...

[MKANET]

I figured it out!!!!! All problems magically went away when I upgraded the driver for my Realtek hi definition sound card. Weird though, my system defaults to the Creative sound card. <10% CPU usage on both blu-ray and HD-DVD. Just to push things even more, I was decoding a 1080i HDTV video in one window and playing Blu-Ray in the other one. It just works! Im glad since I'm sure you guys were getting tired of hearing me nag.

[mikemav]

I have PDVD Ultra 7.3, the latest patch, and AnyDVD-HD (trial version for now.) I have a GeForce 8600GT, with ForceWare, version 158.24. I use an Xbox 360 HD drive. I can play back King Kong from the drive, using PDVD 7.3, called from My Movies 2 (within Vista Media Center.) I was also able to rip my disc to hard drive using AnyDVD. However, when I try to playback the hard drive copy I run into issues. I tried pointing My Movies to the King Kong folder, or the HD VIDEO_TS folder inside there. I also tried various files within these folders (mainmenu.evo, feature1.evo, etc...) Which file or folder do I play to launch the movie w/ functioning menus? I also tried bypassing My Movies/Media Center for the time being and running as a file or folder from within PowerDVD. However, when I find something that will launch, it launches with a black screen for video. Interestingly, if I double-click directly on the mainmenu.evo in Explorer, it will give me the HD-DVD logo, then the background video for the main menu in widescreen/HD looking res full screen (but not actual menu controls.) No other files within the HD DVD structure seem to play w/ video.

Ideas? Again, the disc was playing fine, but not when played from the hard drive. At first I was trying a UNC path (//unraid/disk1) for networked server, but I read MyMovies has trouble w/ this since PowerDVD cannot use UNC path from command line, so I moved the 25GB file to a local hard drive, but still w/ no joy. Any help appreciated. Thanks!

[Rathbone]

Which driver settings in Forceware affect playback in PowerDVD Ultra?

[mikemav]

I have PDVD Ultra 7.3, the latest patch, and AnyDVD-HD (trial version for now.) I have a GeForce 8600GT, with ForceWare, version 158.24. I use an Xbox 360 HD drive. I can play back King Kong from the drive, using PDVD 7.3, called from My Movies 2 (within Vista Media Center.) I was also able to rip my disc to hard drive using AnyDVD. However, when I try to playback the hard drive copy I run into issues. I tried pointing My Movies to the King Kong folder, or the HD VIDEO_TS folder inside there. I also tried various files within these folders (mainmenu.evo, feature1.evo, etc...) Which file or folder do I play to launch the movie w/ functioning menus? I also tried bypassing My Movies/Media Center for the time being and running as a file or folder from within PowerDVD. However, when I find something that will launch, it launches with a black screen for video. Interestingly, if I double-click directly on the mainmenu.evo in Explorer, it will give me the HD-DVD logo, then the background video for the main menu in widescreen/HD looking res full screen (but not actual menu controls.) No other files within the HD DVD structure seem to play w/ video.

Ideas? Again, the disc was playing fine, but not when played from the hard drive. At first I was trying a UNC path (//unraid/disk1) for networked server, but I read MyMovies has trouble w/ this since PowerDVD cannot use UNC path from command line, so I moved the 25GB file to a local hard drive, but still w/ no joy. Any help appreciated. Thanks!
I'm trying the Nvidia 1.58.45 version; we'll see if that helps and I'll report back. Anyone have any other ideas for the black screen on HD-DVD rips but fine playback from disc itself?

[ZeggyZon]

I have PDVD Ultra 7.3, the latest patch, and AnyDVD-HD (trial version for now.) I have a GeForce 8600GT, with ForceWare, version 158.24. I use an Xbox 360 HD drive. I can play back King Kong from the drive, using PDVD 7.3, called from My Movies 2 (within Vista Media Center.) I was also able to rip my disc to hard drive using AnyDVD. However, when I try to playback the hard drive copy I run into issues. I tried pointing My Movies to the King Kong folder, or the HD VIDEO_TS folder inside there. I also tried various files within these folders (mainmenu.evo, feature1.evo, etc...) Which file or folder do I play to launch the movie w/ functioning menus? I also tried bypassing My Movies/Media Center for the time being and running as a file or folder from within PowerDVD. However, when I find something that will launch, it launches with a black screen for video. Interestingly, if I double-click directly on the mainmenu.evo in Explorer, it will give me the HD-DVD logo, then the background video for the main menu in widescreen/HD looking res full screen (but not actual menu controls.) No other files within the HD DVD structure seem to play w/ video.

Ideas? Again, the disc was playing fine, but not when played from the hard drive. At first I was trying a UNC path (//unraid/disk1) for networked server, but I read MyMovies has trouble w/ this since PowerDVD cannot use UNC path from command line, so I moved the 25GB file to a local hard drive, but still w/ no joy. Any help appreciated. Thanks!

You didn't describe how you were trying to open these ripped HDDVDs. There are 2 ways to playback ripped HDDVD. One is to use "open movies on hard drive" and select the folder where the HD_DVD sub folder resides similar to how you would open a regular DVD. The second way is to use ImgBurn (http://www.imgburn.com/) and rip the HDDVD as an image and mount it with daemon tools. PowerDVD will then see this and treat it as an actual disk.

ZZ

[mikemav]

You didn't describe how you were trying to open these ripped HDDVDs. There are 2 ways to playback ripped HDDVD. One is to use "open movies on hard drive" and select the folder where the HD_DVD sub folder resides similar to how you would open a regular DVD. The second way is to use ImgBurn (http://www.imgburn.com/) and rip the HDDVD as an image and mount it with daemon tools. PowerDVD will then see this and treat it as an actual disk.

ZZ
No, file mode, not .iso. I have not messed w/ daemon tools yet. File or folder mode should work, no?

[Bignickfly]

Sorry in advance,

But why do my HD-DVD play without Anydvd-hd?

This is my sysytem: E6400, x1900pro,Cat7.5, PDVD-U latest build, Xbox360addon, VGA out to PJ.

My system is no way HDCP compliant but I did play the movies previosly with Anydvd-hd enabled.

[Alpha10]

Sorry in advance,

But why do my HD-DVD play without Anydvd-hd?

This is my sysytem: E6400, x1900pro,Cat7.5, PDVD-U latest build, Xbox360addon, VGA out to PJ.

My system is no way HDCP compliant but I did play the movies previosly with Anydvd-hd enabled.

It is because you are using VGA which is analogue, HDCP is only for digital connections

[XxDeadlyxX]

I can't install PowerDVD Ultra 7.3 2911 on Vista x64, it has the installation error 1628. Is there any solution to this at the moment?

[ashwincr]

the latest patch from cyberlink on their download site fixes that error.

[mikemav]

No, file mode, not .iso. I have not messed w/ daemon tools yet. File or folder mode should work, no?
Anyone have any ideas about why I'm getting a black screen playing back the ripped HD-DVD files? If I go to launch one directly from Explorer ("open with: PowerDVD"), which file in the HD-DVD folder structure will cause PowerDVD to launch the main menu w/ functioning menu controls like playing the disc does? What things can I check to see about why the black screen on file playback and not on disc playback? I'm using the latest patch on PDVD so I have hardware acceleration checked for my GeForce 8600GT, FYI...

[mikemav]

Anyone have any ideas about why I'm getting a black screen playing back the ripped HD-DVD files? If I go to launch one directly from Explorer ("open with: PowerDVD"), which file in the HD-DVD folder structure will cause PowerDVD to launch the main menu w/ functioning menu controls like playing the disc does? What things can I check to see about why the black screen on file playback and not on disc playback? I'm using the latest patch on PDVD so I have hardware acceleration checked for my GeForce 8600GT, FYI...
More info, still no solution. If I point MyMovies 2 at the HDVIDEO_TS folder from the rip, it will launch PowerDVD but not Autoplay. So if I go and hit play in PowerDVD for that file, I get "DVD Error: Error Code 80040265, Internal error" Any ideas? Help! Thanks

[ashwincr]

I have narrowed down the problems I am having with powerdvd ultra. the flickering video and sometimes black screen occurs only on HD-DVD menus and enhanced content in full screen. they play fine in windowed mode! this happens in both XP-32 bit and Vista 64 bit !
The movies itself play fine in full screen. so if start the movies in windowed mode, go through the menu and once the movie starts playing, switch to full screen mode, everything is fine. but if I start full screen, then as soon as the menu starts, my video goes haywire!

[XxDeadlyxX]

This has probably been answered, but is there any easy way to get rid of the grey bars in the 16:9 frame in Vista without reducing the video brightness in the Nvidia CP? In XP it works fine and the bars are black... I have read it has to do with Vista only showing black levels from 16 and above? Is there any easy fix for this or is this just the way it is?

[John Nelson]

More info, still no solution. If I point MyMovies 2 at the HDVIDEO_TS folder from the rip, it will launch PowerDVD but not Autoplay. So if I go and hit play in PowerDVD for that file, I get "DVD Error: Error Code 80040265, Internal error" Any ideas? Help! ThanksError 80040265 happens when you try to play a HD-DVD from a network unc name. You must map the network share to a local drive letter and play from there.

From the file explorer, if you right click on X:\12 Monkeys\ADV_OVJ\vplst000.xpl and click Open with PowerDVD, the HD-DVD starts and the Menus work.

For MyMovies, install the latest version 2.31, put your ripped HD-DVD's in a folder something like this with write access.
X:\HD DVD\12 Monkeys
x:\HD DVD\T2
X:\HD DVD\RAY
X:\HD DVD\etc...

Then from Manage Collection, Select "File>Import>FolderContent" when it asks, point the importer to x:\HD DVD. MyMovies will scan all the folders in x:\HD DVD and add to the catalogue.

[mikemav]

Error 80040265 happens when you try to play a HD-DVD from a network unc name. You must map the network share to a local drive letter and play from there.

From the file explorer, if you right click on X:\12 Monkeys\ADV_OVJ\vplst000.xpl and click Open with PowerDVD, the HD-DVD starts and the Menus work.

For MyMovies, install the latest version 2.31, put your ripped HD-DVD's in a folder something like this with write access.
X:\HD DVD\12 Monkeys
x:\HD DVD\T2
X:\HD DVD\RAY
X:\HD DVD\etc...

Then from Manage Collection, Select "File>Import>FolderContent" when it asks, point the importer to x:\HD DVD. MyMovies will scan all the folders in x:\HD DVD and add to the catalogue.
Thank you! I'll try this when I get home and if it works, I'll be one happy camper! Appreciate the info.

[mikemav]

Error 80040265 happens when you try to play a HD-DVD from a network unc name. You must map the network share to a local drive letter and play from there.

From the file explorer, if you right click on X:\12 Monkeys\ADV_OVJ\vplst000.xpl and click Open with PowerDVD, the HD-DVD starts and the Menus work.

For MyMovies, install the latest version 2.31, put your ripped HD-DVD's in a folder something like this with write access.
X:\HD DVD\12 Monkeys
x:\HD DVD\T2
X:\HD DVD\RAY
X:\HD DVD\etc...

Then from Manage Collection, Select "File>Import>FolderContent" when it asks, point the importer to x:\HD DVD. MyMovies will scan all the folders in x:\HD DVD and add to the catalogue.
Okay, I tried this, and we're getting somewhere, but not all the way to HD-DVD bliss. First, when I pointed MyMovies to the HD-DVD folder, it said no compatble files found to play (it imported file w/ Import>Folder Content. so to play, I then switched to point to a gile, and I pointed to the .xlp file in ADV-OVJ, but it launched PowerDVD, I got to a blank black screen w/ HD-DVD logo in the bottom right side, but no menus or anything further. The folder structure, ripped via AnyDvd, is Z:\KING_KONG\HVDVD_TS\ADV_OBJ\VPLST000.XPL
But it won't get past that DVD-Menu logo screen. In the root level of the HVDVD_TS folder are the .EVO and .MAP files, in addition to the ADV_OBJ folder, and .jpgs of the covers MyMovies placed.

[John Nelson]

Okay, I tried this, and we're getting somewhere, but not all the way to HD-DVD bliss. First, when I pointed MyMovies to the HD-DVD folder, it said no compatble files found to play (it imported file w/ Import>Folder Content. so to play, I then switched to point to a gile, and I pointed to the .xlp file in ADV-OVJ, but it launched PowerDVD, I got to a blank black screen w/ HD-DVD logo in the bottom right side, but no menus or anything further. The folder structure, ripped via AnyDvd, is Z:\KING_KONG\HVDVD_TS\ADV_OBJ\VPLST000.XPL
But it won't get past that DVD-Menu logo screen. In the root level of the HVDVD_TS folder are the .EVO and .MAP files, in addition to the ADV_OBJ folder, and .jpgs of the covers MyMovies placed. I believe you need to put one more directory layer above the folder named King_Kong. i.e Z:\HD Rips\King Kong\... and point MyMovies import only at the z:\HD Rips folder. Do not point it at the King_kong folder or any folders/files below that. The files (.xml, .jpg) that my movies created, should have appeared in the "King_Kong" folder. It would probably also work if you just pointed the manage collection importer at z:

[ballenjr]

mikemav

Are you sure HD DVD rips play properly with PowerDVD alone before using my movies to launch them.

Just checking.

[mikemav]

mikemav

Are you sure HD DVD rips play properly with PowerDVD alone before using my movies to launch them.

Just checking.
No, same thing I believe, when I launch the .xlp file directly in PowerDVD, I get a "file mode" or something similar icon on top left, and it loads to a page that is all black w/ except the HD-DVD logo in the bottom right corner, and doesn't do anything more from there.

As far as the file structure, I'll check that tonight, but I believe it goes share/HD-DVD rips/movie folder name/HVDVD_TS, so that level above the movie is there, but when I mapped the network drive for that share, I mapped Z to the HD-DVD Rips folder, not the whole drive share. I'll retry w/ your suggested layout, but as ballenjr points out, this may be a PowerDVD issue for me and not a MyMovies issue. Also, I have 2.30, so I need to try out 2.31 beta.

[John Nelson]

As far as the file structure, I'll check that tonight, but I believe it goes share/HD-DVD rips/movie folder name/HVDVD_TS, so that level above the movie is there, but when I mapped the network drive for that share, I mapped Z to the HD-DVD Rips folder, not the whole drive share..In that case just point the importer at Z:

[ballenjr]

No, same thing I believe, when I launch the .xlp file directly in PowerDVD, I get a "file mode" or something similar icon on top left, and it loads to a page that is all black w/ except the HD-DVD logo in the bottom right corner, and doesn't do anything more from there.

As far as the file structure, I'll check that tonight, but I believe it goes share/HD-DVD rips/movie folder name/HVDVD_TS, so that level above the movie is there, but when I mapped the network drive for that share, I mapped Z to the HD-DVD Rips folder, not the whole drive share. I'll retry w/ your suggested layout, but as ballenjr points out, this may be a PowerDVD issue for me and not a MyMovies issue. Also, I have 2.30, so I need to try out 2.31 beta.

2.3 or 2.31 won't make a difference for your problem.

First get you HD DVD rips playing properly through PowerDVD alone, then using mymovies shouldn't be a problem.

Like others have said, you can't play HD DVD rips from a network location. The workaround is mapping a network drive (this is my setup).

When you try to play your rip select 'play movie file from hard disk' not 'open media file'--this puts you in file mode.

[mikemav]

2.3 or 2.31 won't make a difference for your problem.

First get you HD DVD rips playing properly through PowerDVD alone, then using mymovies shouldn't be a problem.

Like others have said, you can't play HD DVD rips from a network location. The workaround is mapping a network drive (this is my setup).

When you try to play your rip select 'play movie file from hard disk' not 'open media file'--this puts you in file mode.
When I "play movie file from hard disk", when I point it to KING KING (folder), it accepts that folder but nothing plays. If I change to selecting HVDVD_TS folder within KING KONG, it will take it, play, show the black screen w/ HD-DVD logo on bottom right, and then stop on it's own. If I hit play again, that repeats. Any ideas?

Edit- I tried a few more experiments. If I double click on FEATURE_1.evo, it will launch a video, but it chuggs along at a frame or two a second. If I play the disc in the HD-DVD drive also with PowerDVD, it works perfectly. Hardware acceleration is enabled for my GeForce 8600GT card. Core2Duo Allendale, overclocked to 2700, BTW. No other issues keeping up w/ any files, HD or SD.
Still can't get past that initial black screen w/ HD-DVD logo when playing the HVDVD_TS folder or the .xlp file. Urgh! Any other ideas of stuff to try?

[vjren]

My gear: C2D4300, 7600GT HDMI,Vista Nvidia 158.24, PDVD-U 2911, Xbox360addon, VGA out to LCD or HDMI to projector.
Issues:
Vista:
HW accel breaks image to green squares
SW decode plays alright.
Not completly smooth on Happy Feet (Pan over the ice in the beginning is a bit jumpy).
Not smooth on Planet earth

XP: setup with 85 driver
Not completly smooth on Happy Feet (Pan over the ice in the beginning is a bit jumpy).
Not smooth on Planet earth

(Again it plays, it is whatchable but some frames just skip when it is panning fast..)

My question is, no matter what I try, PDVD 6.5 7.1 7.2 7.3 I never get completly smooth playback while CPU is below 30/40%, so is this the 7600GT not able to handle it?
Can we expect magic nvidia update that will fix it?
Anyone with a 7600GT that does have absolute smooth playback and can explain how?

[bran82]

Has anyone tried the 7.4 version? If so, what's the difference/new features?

[MKANET]

I just bought the 7.4 deluxe a couple of weeks ago. How do I get the 7.4 version?

Has anyone tried the 7.4 version? If so, what's the difference/new features?

[Sarvatt]

as far as I know, there is no 7.4 released, it's just a virus ridden warez copy of an earlier release.. They just released a 7.3.2911e patch for LG drives today that contains v3008 directshow filters, a 4208 bluray filter and v3006 UI. Interested in how those work out :)

[Socio]

FYI: To Those getting stuttering or intermittent slowdowns during playback:

I had smooth play back with my X-Plosion card then I tried a Creative XFI card. No matter how I had in configured I got stutter or intermittent slowdowns during HD-DVD playback.

I removed the XFI card all the XFI drivers and software for it, went back to the X-Plosion and I have smooth playback again. So if you have a Creative XFI and are experiencing this it is probably the XFI or its drivers and not PowerDVD, your CPU or your Video card.

[MidnightWatcher]

FYI: To Those getting stuttering or intermittent slowdowns during playback:

I had smooth play back with my X-Plosion card then I tried a Creative XFI card. No matter how I had in configured I got stutter or intermittent slowdowns during HD-DVD playback.

I removed the XFI card all the XFI drivers and software for it, went back to the X-Plosion and I have smooth playback again. So if you have a Creative XFI and are experiencing this it is probably the XFI or its drivers and not PowerDVD, your CPU or your Video card.
I have an X-Fi and am not experiencing any issues. Was it set to Entertainment mode? Did you have the EAX effects disabled? SVM off?

[Socio]

I have an X-Fi and am not experiencing any issues. Was it set to Entertainment mode? Did you have the EAX effects disabled? SVM off?

I was using Entertainment mode, no EAX and I believe I tried it with SVM off and on. I even re-installed the X-plosion installed while leaving the XFI installed and setting the X-Plosion as playback device under Sound in the control panel and it still stuttered.

Only when I removed the XFI, drivers and software did it stop which makes me think that something in the drivers or software that loads causes interference with PowerDVD regardless what you are using to playback sound.

So if any are using the XFI and have these problems they could try removing it, its drivers and software to see if it is the cause.

NOTE: I am using XP this may not occur in Vista.

[ilpostini2]

I replaced my GeForce 7900GT with the 2400 tonight and I'm having a problem watching any BluRay discs. I replaced the video card because it wasn't hdcp compliant.The disc starts up in the latest version of PowerDVD and plays FBI and Interpol warnings, any coming attractions and then the play screen without a problem until the actual film starts. Then all I get is a green screen. I'm not using my tv yet, just a Dell 15" VGA monitor. The green screen appears whether I use the vga or the dvi output. I'm using Vista Ultimate and have a AMD duo core processor, 3 gigs of ram.
Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong?
Thanks

[archer75]

Is your monitor HDCP compliant?

[ilpostini2]

probably not, it's my sons from a cheap setup.
does it make a difference if I'm running vga? Why does everything else on the disc play until the actual movie? Do they just make the actual film part hdcp compliant?

[archer75]

probably not, it's my sons from a cheap setup.
does it make a difference if I'm running vga? Why does everything else on the disc play until the actual movie? Do they just make the actual film part hdcp compliant?

For the DRM the MPAA puts on these discs both the video card and the monitor have to be HDCP compliant and you have to use a digital connection such as HDMI or DVI. The same thing applies to set top boxes and TV's.

I don't know if this is why part of the disc would play or not.

[ilpostini2]

I'll try it on my Samsung later tonight.

[Rathbone]

The LG updates contain a new release. PowerDVD.exe is now Version 3006 (previous: 2911). If you don't have a LG drive, but want to install the new release anyway, do the following:

1. Execute the file until a message pops up which says that your version is wrong. DO NOT CLICK OK, LEAVE THE WINDOW AS IT IS! If you click OK, the temporary files will be deleted.

2. Install Universal Extractor

3. Browse to your Temp Folder (Vista users/yourname/AppData/local/temp)

4. Search for the data1.cab file and extract everything in it with Universal Extractor.

5. Replace your old PowerDVD Ver. 2911 files with the new ones by copy & paste function. It works.

[slimm]

The LG updates contain a new release. PowerDVD.exe is now Version 3006 (previous: 2911). If you don't have a LG drive, but want to install the new release anyway, do the following:

1. Execute the file until a message pops up which says that your version is wrong. DO NOT CLICK OK, LEAVE THE WINDOW AS IT IS! If you click OK, the temporary files will be deleted.

2. Install Universal Extractor

3. Browse to your Temp Folder (Vista users/yourname/AppData/local/temp)

4. Search for the data1.cab file and extract everything in it with Universal Extractor.

5. Replace your old PowerDVD Ver. 2911 files with the new ones by copy & paste function. It works.

Thanks but I think I'll just wait until they release a patch that takes me directly to version 3006 :) BTW, what is this Universal Extractor :confused:

[nathan_h]

The LG updates contain a new release. PowerDVD.exe is now Version 3006 (previous: 2911). If you don't have a LG drive, but want to install the new release anyway, do the following:

1. Execute the file until a message pops up which says that your version is wrong. DO NOT CLICK OK, LEAVE THE WINDOW AS IT IS! If you click OK, the temporary files will be deleted.

2. Install Universal Extractor

3. Browse to your Temp Folder (Vista users/yourname/AppData/local/temp)

4. Search for the data1.cab file and extract everything in it with Universal Extractor.

5. Replace your old PowerDVD Ver. 2911 files with the new ones by copy & paste function. It works.

Glad to hear it works. But what new does it give you?

[Sarvatt]

You can also just unrar the exe and edit the custom.ini DrvVendor= and DrvModel= lines to match your drive and run setup.exe, thats what I did :D

[RichB]

I replaced my GeForce 7900GT with the 2400 tonight and I'm having a problem watching any BluRay discs. I replaced the video card because it wasn't hdcp compliant.The disc starts up in the latest version of PowerDVD and plays FBI and Interpol warnings, any coming attractions and then the play screen without a problem until the actual film starts. Then all I get is a green screen. I'm not using my tv yet, just a Dell 15" VGA monitor. The green screen appears whether I use the vga or the dvi output. I'm using Vista Ultimate and have a AMD duo core processor, 3 gigs of ram.
Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong?
Thanks

I have this as well with the 2400Pro. It works at some resolutions and not others. 1920x1280 works great. 1920x1080 and 1366x768 pixelate and flash green.
It also failed on XP and Vista.

Basically, something is broken in the software or hardware.

- Rich

[arfster]

Bluray and HDDVD are fine for me with the 2400pro, whether mpeg2, vc1, or h264. Using PDVD 7.3 2911, catalyst 7.6, vista32.

Green screens often mean a dxva screwup - does it work if you untick hardware acceleration?

[RichB]

Bluray and HDDVD are fine for me with the 2400pro, whether mpeg2, vc1, or h264. Using PDVD 7.3 2911, catalyst 7.6, vista32.

Green screens often mean a dxva screwup - does it work if you untick hardware acceleration?

It works fine without hardware acceleration. The failure is somehow related to the resolution. Although 1920x1200 works and that is greater than 1920x1080 so I think there is something messed up when it needs to scale.

- Rich

[bton]

The LG updates contain a new release. PowerDVD.exe is now Version 3006 (previous: 2911). If you don't have a LG drive, but want to install the new release anyway, do the following:

1. Execute the file until a message pops up which says that your version is wrong. DO NOT CLICK OK, LEAVE THE WINDOW AS IT IS! If you click OK, the temporary files will be deleted.

2. Install Universal Extractor

3. Browse to your Temp Folder (Vista users/yourname/AppData/local/temp)

4. Search for the data1.cab file and extract everything in it with Universal Extractor.

5. Replace your old PowerDVD Ver. 2911 files with the new ones by copy & paste function. It works.

Do you have the link?

[Rathbone]

Do you have the link?

Just look in the PowerDVD Ultra Patches section of the Cyberlink website.

[Rathbone]

You can also just unrar the exe and edit the custom.ini DrvVendor= and DrvModel= lines to match your drive and run setup.exe, thats what I did :D

Could you post the custom.ini for the XBOX Addon please?

[Rathbone]

BTW, what is this Universal Extractor :confused:

With UE you can extract the InstallShield cab files. WinRAR etc. can only extract Microsoft cab files.

[arfster]

Don't bother with this update, the video filters aren't changed and there are other bugs. On top of that, it's a bit risky knowing PDVD's history with uninstallation/updates leaving a mess behind.

[bran82]

Don't bother with this update, the video filters aren't changed and there are other bugs. On top of that, it's a bit risky knowing PDVD's history with uninstallation/updates leaving a mess behind.

Thanks, I kinda suspected that, since I never got the 2911 patch working properly and had to use a version which 2911 was already incorporated.

[multiblitz]

Ok, here is my experience:

- with 2605: No Playback without HArd Accelaration possible (Conroe @3.6 ghz, 7600gt)

- 2911 (full install from scratch): Playback without hardware accelaration possible, but crash with "the prestige" while it works in 2605...

[Thuppu]

Does someone know how to move the subs up and down in PDVD Ultra? Or how to get the subs wisible? I have a small problem with "Brotherhood of the wolf" HD DVD... http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?p=10867541&&#post10867541
I have this problem with all titles of the new Studio Canal wave (BotW, Serpico, T2 etc.)

So, is there any solution for "studo canal non visible subs" problem yet?

[Kakyoin]

It seems I can't play a HD DVD properly with PowerDVD. I tried using XP, but after displaying the HD DVD logo for a few seconds PDVD would just crash.
Tried Unforgiven and Goodfellas using Vista, the WB HD DVD promo plays fine but the actual movie is overly bright (like using VMR9 on a PC monitor), not smooth, displays quite heavy blocking in some dark scenes, and reds look heavy saturated. I also tried using AnyDVD and even to rip them to my hd, and other HD (x264) videos play without problems using MPC. Would buying Windvd 8 be a solution?

My gear:
Core 2 Duo E6400 @ 2.13ghz
2gb Kingston RAM
GeForce 7600 GT HDCP compliant connected via HDMI to a Samsung LCD at 1360x768 resolution
Creative X-Fi
XBox 360 HD DVD Drive

Thanks in advance.

[slothy]

It seems I can't play a HD DVD properly with PowerDVD. I tried using XP, but after displaying the HD DVD logo for a few seconds PDVD would just crash.
Tried Unforgiven and Goodfellas using Vista, the WB HD DVD promo plays fine but the actual movie is overly bright (like using VMR9 on a PC monitor), not smooth, displays quite heavy blocking in some dark scenes, and reds look heavy saturated. I also tried using AnyDVD and even to rip them to my hd, and other HD (x264) videos play without problems using MPC. Would buying Windvd 8 be a solution?

My gear:
Core 2 Duo E6400 @ 2.13ghz
2gb Kingston RAM
GeForce 7600 GT HDCP compliant connected via HDMI to a Samsung LCD at 1360x768 resolution
Creative X-Fi
XBox 360 HD DVD Drive

Thanks in advance.

i have almost the same setup - but with a 8600gt/vista and my hddvd is flawless playing. What version of powerdvd are using? the latest patch seemed to fixed the few lil bugs i was having (mostly with normal dvds).

[bowser15]

It seems I can't play a HD DVD properly with PowerDVD. I tried using XP, but after displaying the HD DVD logo for a few seconds PDVD would just crash.
Tried Unforgiven and Goodfellas using Vista, the WB HD DVD promo plays fine but the actual movie is overly bright (like using VMR9 on a PC monitor), not smooth, displays quite heavy blocking in some dark scenes, and reds look heavy saturated. I also tried using AnyDVD and even to rip them to my hd, and other HD (x264) videos play without problems using MPC. Would buying Windvd 8 be a solution?

My gear:
Core 2 Duo E6400 @ 2.13ghz
2gb Kingston RAM
GeForce 7600 GT HDCP compliant connected via HDMI to a Samsung LCD at 1360x768 resolution
Creative X-Fi
XBox 360 HD DVD Drive

Thanks in advance.

From reading this forum, it seems that the 7000 series nvidia cards just don't have the drivers necessary for HD DVD or blu-ray. I'd suggest going to the 85/86/8800 series video cards.

[Kakyoin]

i have almost the same setup - but with a 8600gt/vista and my hddvd is flawless playing. What version of powerdvd are using? the latest patch seemed to fixed the few lil bugs i was having (mostly with normal dvds).
Version 7.3.2605, and I'm using the lastest (162.15) nVidia beta drivers, since the lastest final drivers would only show HD DVDs as weird green screen with some macroblocks showing some details of what was supposed to be played also in a greenish tint. I have no problems playing SD DVDs at all.
From reading this forum, it seems that the 7000 series nvidia cards just don't have the drivers necessary for HD DVD or blu-ray. I'd suggest going to the 85/86/8800 series video cards.
They used to play fine (at least the VC-1 encoded ones) using the same video card but with a different (Athlon XP 3500+) CPU. I also can play 1080p x264 at high bitrates so it seems weird that it can't handle VC-1.

[Micromain]

It seems I can't play a HD DVD properly with PowerDVD. I tried using XP, but after displaying the HD DVD logo for a few seconds PDVD would just crash.
Tried Unforgiven and Goodfellas using Vista, the WB HD DVD promo plays fine but the actual movie is overly bright (like using VMR9 on a PC monitor), not smooth, displays quite heavy blocking in some dark scenes, and reds look heavy saturated. I also tried using AnyDVD and even to rip them to my hd, and other HD (x264) videos play without problems using MPC. Would buying Windvd 8 be a solution?

My gear:
Core 2 Duo E6400 @ 2.13ghz
2gb Kingston RAM
GeForce 7600 GT HDCP compliant connected via HDMI to a Samsung LCD at 1360x768 resolution
Creative X-Fi
XBox 360 HD DVD Drive

Thanks in advance.
You didn't mention it so I have to ask; what video drivers have you tried and which are you using now?

[Kakyoin]

I forgot to mention in the first post, sorry, anyway it's 162.15.

[AnthonyB]

What do you think cyberlink will do about this online feature (HD-DVD) for movies like "Blood Diamond" and "300".. They're gonna have to do something quick because 300 is gonna be a popular title.

Might as well get Vista MCE integrated now too.

[Sarvatt]

Don't bother with this update, the video filters aren't changed and there are other bugs. On top of that, it's a bit risky knowing PDVD's history with uninstallation/updates leaving a mess behind.


I think ya might have had a bad install of powerdvd 2911e if you aren't seeing newer filters and such. The LG patch is a full install, I removed the old one and cleaned it out and installed it and every filter that matters has a newer version number than the 2911 patch ones. It might be related to how you installed it too, I unrarred the update exe and changed the lines in the custom.ini to match the drive string of any drive in my system and it installs perfectly.

For example-
DrvVender=Pioneer
DrvModel=DVR-111D

Also nice to change richvideo=1 to richvideo=0 :D

[arfster]

Oh, good spot, thanks. You're right, the filters are a month newer. Anyone spotted changes?

[JavierS]

Any one tried ver 3104a?
Seems to be the latest patch, dated 07/11

http://www.cyberlink.com/multi/download/dl_patch_397_112_ENU.html

[Rathbone]

Any one tried ver 3104a?
Seems to be the latest patch, dated 07/11

http://www.cyberlink.com/multi/download/dl_patch_397_112_ENU.html

Hope it fixes the subtitle and menu problems of the new Studio Canal wave.

[arfster]

Any one tried ver 3104a?
Seems to be the latest patch, dated 07/11

http://www.cyberlink.com/multi/download/dl_patch_397_112_ENU.html

The file is named for july 03, a day later than the LG patch, so it's probably just the same for the rest of us.

Edit: .......... and it's not. It's 3104 dshow, UI and DVD version, and the codecs have changed too. Not sure how of course, wish they'd do a changelog.

[IAM4UK]

In PDVD Ultra, I tried to watch "Chronos" HD-DVD. I can see the main menu, and I can see the overlay menus while the feature is playing. Audio is fine, but the feature itself is blacked out. Anyone experience such a problem before? Any ideas how it is possible, and how it might be fixed? I've asked CyberLink via their online tech support, but who knows if I'll get anything out of them...

[RichB]

Any one tried ver 3104a?
Seems to be the latest patch, dated 07/11

http://www.cyberlink.com/multi/download/dl_patch_397_112_ENU.html

I tried it with a 2400Pro and it did not fix my HW Acceleration problems but it caused the image to no longer use the whole screen. I have an inch of black on both sides. I used system restore to go back.

FYI,

Rich

[Thuppu]

Hope it fixes the subtitle and menu problems of the new Studio Canal wave.

Nope, seems that this patch don't fix anything. No subs on my "Brotherhood of Wolf" disc, and no go for "Relentless Enemies"... :(

[slimm]

Still can't play HULK :(

[arfster]

I tried it with a 2400Pro and it did not fix my HW Acceleration problems but it caused the image to no longer use the whole screen. I have an inch of black on both sides. I used system restore to go back.


Odd - that's what I got with the LG update at first. Today's update is fine though.

[Rathbone]

Nope, seems that this patch don't fix anything. No subs on my "Brotherhood of Wolf" disc, and no go for "Relentless Enemies"... :(

That's really bad. Have to use Nero Showtime for Brotherhood and hope it doesn't crash while watching the movie. :(

[rawknmxpx]

Been lurking awhile... first time posting. You guys are an incredible resource and have helped me a bunch... Forgive me if this has been covered, but I didn't see it in my search(es)...

I have my x360 drive hooked up to my pc with drivers installed... playback is smooth, audio works EXCEPT it only plays the top left quarter of the video. I looked everywhere for a zoom feature that might have been active but found nothing. Anyone else run into this problem?

My machine:
Pentium D 3.0ghz
1 Gig DDR800
NVidia 7600GS 256MB (8600GT 256MB coming friday...)
Samsung 204B Monitor thru DVI
Vizio VU42LF LCD TV (DVI to HDMI cable)

Also have new version of WinDVD and Nero Showtime installed... Neither work w/HD. I thought it might be an HDCP issue, but seems to me AnyDVD clears that up... Any help getting all the video to play would be awesome

[buggdog]

is there a list of keyboard shortcuts and command line parameters for powerdvd ultra? I cant seem to find any of info on their website.

thanks for any help.

[ZeggyZon]

Been lurking awhile... first time posting. You guys are an incredible resource and have helped me a bunch... Forgive me if this has been covered, but I didn't see it in my search(es)...

I have my x360 drive hooked up to my pc with drivers installed... playback is smooth, audio works EXCEPT it only plays the top left quarter of the video. I looked everywhere for a zoom feature that might have been active but found nothing. Anyone else run into this problem?

My machine:
Pentium D 3.0ghz
1 Gig DDR800
NVidia 7600GS 256MB (8600GT 256MB coming friday...)
Samsung 204B Monitor thru DVI
Vizio VU42LF LCD TV (DVI to HDMI cable)

Also have new version of WinDVD and Nero Showtime installed... Neither work w/HD. I thought it might be an HDCP issue, but seems to me AnyDVD clears that up... Any help getting all the video to play would be awesome

Make sure the setting for antialiasing in the control panel for the Nvidia drivers is set to "application controlled" or disabled entirely. Had the same problem the very first time I tried to play an HDDVD.

ZZ

[Sarvatt]

SWEET! I'm getting great h264/mkv directshow acceleration on my geforce go 6150 with this newest patch, still using the older 162.15 drivers. Time to put this on my other PCs :)



CLSID: {FA10746C-9B63-4B6C-BC49-FC300EA5F256}
Filter: Enhanced Video Renderer
Pin: EVR Input0

- Connection media type:

Video: DXVA 704x400 29.97fps

AM_MEDIA_TYPE:
majortype: MEDIATYPE_Video {73646976-0000-0010-8000-00AA00389B71}
subtype: MEDIASUBTYPE_NV12 {3231564E-0000-0010-8000-00AA00389B71}
formattype: FORMAT_VideoInfo2 {F72A76A0-EB0A-11D0-ACE4-0000C0CC16BA}
bFixedSizeSamples: 1
bTemporalCompression: 0
lSampleSize: 518400
cbFormat: 112

[nathan_h]

What OS?

[Sarvatt]

vista ultimate x64. still no DXVA with subtitles but all my anime is low bitrate anyway :D

[mine]

I tried it with a 2400Pro and it did not fix my HW Acceleration problems but it caused the image to no longer use the whole screen. I have an inch of black on both sides. I used system restore to go back.

FYI,

Rich

This Cyberlinkupgrade for XP fixed HW acc. on 2400 pro... completely (this was only possible on 2400 HD with 2911 ...with tricks)
Rich , I suppose you have serious incompatibilities or problems in your system a.t.m.

[hamish b]

getting accel with mpeg2 dvd :p
i think its the only one bar wmp11 that offers it
2-3% cpu!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D

[RichB]

This Cyberlinkupgrade for XP fixed HW acc. on 2400 pro... completely (this was only possible on 2400 HD with 2911 ...with tricks)
Rich , I suppose you have serious incompatibilities or problems in your system a.t.m.

I tried the patch and HW Acceleration did not work.
I suppose. I have an AMD 4600+ with an ASUS A8n and Vista32. You would think they would have tested that one :p

It also failed on my XP System that just had a graphics card installed. Perhaps I will try that again when my 2600Pro comes in.

vkristof posted a link (http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?p=11006492&&#post11006492) to the The Tech Report (http://www.techreport.com/reviews/2007q3/radeon-hd-2400-2600/index.x?pg=9) review of the ATI 2400 and 2600 cards running PowerDVD with VC1 and AVC movies and HQV HD Image quality tests score. The 2600's did the best with a 100 score. Pretty interesting. It seems everybody can get the 2400Pro running except me :p

- Rich

[Atlas100]

Hi guys,

can anybody help me how to add the cyberlink-filters to zoomplayer in order to play HD-DVDs in ZP with EVR?

Greets

Atlas

[rawknmxpx]

Make sure the setting for antialiasing in the control panel for the Nvidia drivers is set to "application controlled" or disabled entirely. Had the same problem the very first time I tried to play an HDDVD.

ZZ

Worked. Thanks a bunch!!!

[Socio]

Hi guys,

can anybody help me how to add the cyberlink-filters to zoomplayer in order to play HD-DVDs in ZP with EVR?

Greets

Atlas

Not possible in third party software like ZP yet.

[darkjedi664]

Has anyone had problems installing the patch? It keeps telling me that I have an old version, or I don't have it installed. I contacted Cyberlink to get the full version instead of the patch.

[maxleung]

I think there is a beta version of Zoomplayer with EVR support. Zoomplayer 5.5 Beta? Hopefully someone here can confirm...

[MidnightWatcher]

Has anyone had problems installing the patch? It keeps telling me that I have an old version, or I don't have it installed. I contacted Cyberlink to get the full version instead of the patch.
I can't install the patch on Vista x64.

[Sarvatt]

patch installed fine for me on vista ultimate x64, upgrading from the LG release that was installed clean. don't think its x64 stopping it :(

[mule]

@arfster:
Same for me with the "picture not using the whole screen"!

My setup: 1080p, Radeon 2400pro, Vista x86, just did a clean setup of the HTPC.

The problem even occurs in window mode: The cyberlink window can not be zoomed to cover the whole screen. It seems to stop around the size of a 720p window.
After deinstall of the new patch and reinstall of Version 2911 everything is fine again. The problem is reproducable! Bad work cyberlink!

TheMule!

[mariner888]

SWEET! I'm getting great h264/mkv directshow acceleration on my geforce go 6150 with this newest patch, still using the older 162.15 drivers. Time to put this on my other PCs :)



CLSID: {FA10746C-9B63-4B6C-BC49-FC300EA5F256}
Filter: Enhanced Video Renderer
Pin: EVR Input0

- Connection media type:

Video: DXVA 704x400 29.97fps

AM_MEDIA_TYPE:
majortype: MEDIATYPE_Video {73646976-0000-0010-8000-00AA00389B71}
subtype: MEDIASUBTYPE_NV12 {3231564E-0000-0010-8000-00AA00389B71}
formattype: FORMAT_VideoInfo2 {F72A76A0-EB0A-11D0-ACE4-0000C0CC16BA}
bFixedSizeSamples: 1
bTemporalCompression: 0
lSampleSize: 518400
cbFormat: 112

Hi Sarvatt,

Greetings and thanks for the post. Would like to address a few questions to you:

1. Is this DXVA2 ?
2. If not, what should the subtype be?
3. Are you using the Cyberlink H264 decoder?

Thanks and best regards.

[bran82]

SWEET! I'm getting great h264/mkv directshow acceleration on my geforce go 6150 with this newest patch, still using the older 162.15 drivers. Time to put this on my other PCs :)



CLSID: {FA10746C-9B63-4B6C-BC49-FC300EA5F256}
Filter: Enhanced Video Renderer
Pin: EVR Input0

- Connection media type:

Video: DXVA 704x400 29.97fps

AM_MEDIA_TYPE:
majortype: MEDIATYPE_Video {73646976-0000-0010-8000-00AA00389B71}
subtype: MEDIASUBTYPE_NV12 {3231564E-0000-0010-8000-00AA00389B71}
formattype: FORMAT_VideoInfo2 {F72A76A0-EB0A-11D0-ACE4-0000C0CC16BA}
bFixedSizeSamples: 1
bTemporalCompression: 0
lSampleSize: 518400
cbFormat: 112

That card doesn't even have dedicated H264 hardware the 85/8600 cards do? Is this with Win XP or Vista?

I'm still getting the 20-21FPS crap with mkv:s with my 8600GT and PDVD 7.3 Ultra 3104 :( (Vista).