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post #1531 of 8247
4/2/07 at 12:37am
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Originally Posted by deandob View Post

Hmm. I tried that and even turned off all the 3D settings, and re-installed 7.3. No go. Any other ideas from those who had this problem and got it to work? I've gone back to PDVD v6.5 which although only plays half my HD DVD collection, at least renders a decent picture.

I may have to wait until the final release of PDVD 7.3 comes out, or try the trial Nero player.

I'm assuming you are using AnyDVD HD. Have you tried ticking the "disable menus for Canal" option for those titles which won't work in PDVD 6.5? I did that with one title which wouldn't work and it fixed the problem even though I don't think it was a Canal title, but I'm not sure it works for all of them. I think the problem lies with the menuing setup rather than in actually playing the content.

The only alternative to be able to watch all titles under PDVD 6.5 is to modify the xpl file to remove everything (even the nav stuff) but the feature and the desired audio track, however that requires the files on a HDD.
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post #1532 of 8247
4/2/07 at 4:18am
Hi Ian,

Yes, I'm use AnyDVD (nifty piece of software!). I'll try the disable menus for Canal as I prefer the PowerDVD 6.5 video quality (it uses VRM9 not overlay).

I thought with AnyDVD you can still modify the XPL which is always copied to the HD even if you watch the movie on the disk without making a HDD copy? I did try this to remove the subtitles however it didn't work, either because you are correct it needs to be a HDD copy or because I have not fully worked out how to hack the XPL file.

Regards,
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post #1533 of 8247
4/2/07 at 9:05am
how do i get truehd sound from powerdvd 7.2 ultra?
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post #1534 of 8247
4/2/07 at 9:47am
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Originally Posted by Burt McGurt View Post

If you have a Nvidia 8800 series graphics card, Win XP 32bit, and PowerDVD Ultra and are having issues seeing HD-DVD video playing King Kong, Children of Men, or any other Universal titles ..

Download and install the BETA Nvidia 101.02 Drivers from Guru3d website. This seems to have solved that issue at least for me!

* Install beta drivers at your OWN risk*

So happy this works!!

What type of problems were you having. My issue was a blank screen on the feature presentation. Turning off U-Control in the menu didn't work. IMHO, it appears powerdvd can't handle sub pictures (PIP) because of overlay. With VMR this issue should go away. In the meanwhile, you can disable the U-Control sub picture stuff by commenting it out in the XPL like so:
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post #1535 of 8247
4/2/07 at 12:10pm
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Originally Posted by jerrytdss View Post

Changed 8800GTS for ATI X1950 and got "Incompatible Graphics Driver" message from PowerDVD 7.3

Tried different ATI Cat drivers from 7.1 to 7.3, no luck.

Had to revert back to PowerDVD 7.1 and Cat driver 7.2, working fine again.

Anyone got PowerDVD 7.3 working with X1950?

if so which drivers?

I use PowerDVD 7.3, an X1650, and catalyst 7.2. Blu-ray playback is fine, but HD-DVDs must be ripped to the hard drive first to avoid the "Incompatible Graphics Driver" error. I think it's been pretty well documented here that encrypted VC-1 discs in PowerDVD 7.3 require hardware acceleration, which does not appear to work for ATI cards. Hopefully, Cyberlink will fix this before AnyDVD stops working...
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post #1536 of 8247
4/2/07 at 3:07pm
When playing these HD DVD titles in WinXP 32bit, I could see and hear the universal logo, the menu, FBI warning, and the interview opinion "spiel" .. but after that I could hear the movie audio but not see the video.

I dual boot WinXP 32bit and Vista 64bit. With Vista this isn't an issue -- I can see and hear the movies fine. Why don't I just watch the movies on Vista then? Playing movies in Vista has a lot of stutters and eventually locks up and crashes. I think this is an issue with the 64bit OS... but thats a whole other issue entirely.

The fix with the 101.02 beta drivers works just fine for me but thank you for posting the possible other solution, ymarker.

Just for reference here are my PC's specs:

Core 2 Duo E6600 overclocked to 3.4 Ghz
2 Gigs OCZ DDR2 PC-8000
EVGA GeForce 8800GTX Video Card
X-Fi Fatality Creative Sound Card
XBOX 360 HD-DVD Addon Drive
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post #1537 of 8247
4/2/07 at 4:48pm
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Originally Posted by Burt McGurt View Post

The fix with the 101.02 beta drivers works just fine for me but thank you for posting the possible other solution, ymarker.


Do you able to set resolution to 1920x1080 at 60Hz with this beta driver on Vista?
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post #1538 of 8247
4/2/07 at 5:22pm
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Originally Posted by kimang View Post

Do you able to set resolution to 1920x1080 at 60Hz with this beta driver on Vista?

I've had problems connecting at 1920x1080 since 100.65 but only with VGA (with XP works fine), output to a Samsung LCD. For what I have checked the driver is not getting the EDID info correctly (it reads 1920x720 at 60hz). This will be surely fixed in next driver releases. Anyway with DVI I have no problems.

I have a 8800GTS and get "incompatible graphics driver"with 101.02.

With 97.92 PowerDVD (HD-DVD) works fine in XP but only if I uncheck hardware acceleration. Otherwise I get sound but no picture when feature starts.

Oh, BTW. I can watch now movies with 97.92/XP on my secondary monitor with NO STUTTERING AND WITHOUT EXCLUSIVE RENDERLESS MODE! Picture is smooth as silk (1920x1080p/DVI). Have tested it with ZP 5.0 and Theatertek.

I don´t have my 7950gt anymore but can anyone confirm if this works too with series 7 GPUs?
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post #1539 of 8247
4/2/07 at 6:57pm
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Originally Posted by Burt McGurt View Post

When playing these HD DVD titles in WinXP 32bit, I could see and hear the universal logo, the menu, FBI warning, and the interview opinion "spiel" .. but after that I could hear the movie audio but not see the video.

I dual boot WinXP 32bit and Vista 64bit. With Vista this isn't an issue -- I can see and hear the movies fine. Why don't I just watch the movies on Vista then? Playing movies in Vista has a lot of stutters and eventually locks up and crashes. I think this is an issue with the 64bit OS... but thats a whole other issue entirely.

The fix with the 101.02 beta drivers works just fine for me but thank you for posting the possible other solution, ymarker.

Just for reference here are my PC's specs:

Core 2 Duo E6600 overclocked to 3.4 Ghz
2 Gigs OCZ DDR2 PC-8000
EVGA GeForce 8800GTX Video Card
X-Fi Fatality Creative Sound Card
XBOX 360 HD-DVD Addon Drive

Looks like we had both had the same symptoms and have very similar setups. I dual boot XP MCE 32bit and Vista Ultimate as well. Are you using U-Control's PIP capability on those Universal movies? I'm wondering if somehow the new 101.02 beta is enabling VMR on PDVD 7.3. See if you can take a printscreen of a windowed powerdvd playing the movie. Let us know.

EDIT: Also did you have any issues setting the display driver at 1920x1080p?
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post #1540 of 8247
4/2/07 at 10:41pm
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Originally Posted by Burt McGurt View Post

When playing these HD DVD titles in WinXP 32bit, I could see and hear the universal logo, the menu, FBI warning, and the interview opinion "spiel" .. but after that I could hear the movie audio but not see the video.

I dual boot WinXP 32bit and Vista 64bit. With Vista this isn't an issue -- I can see and hear the movies fine. Why don't I just watch the movies on Vista then? Playing movies in Vista has a lot of stutters and eventually locks up and crashes. I think this is an issue with the 64bit OS... but thats a whole other issue entirely.

The fix with the 101.02 beta drivers works just fine for me but thank you for posting the possible other solution, ymarker.

I was about to post "re-install", since that used to happen to me in the beginning before I go the drivers right.

But my question is: are you trying to use the same install under both OS's, or have you done a separate installation for each OS?

If it's the same install, you will likely not get it working with both. Recommend you do a separate installation under wach OS.

If you have two different installs already and the 32 bit install is the one that is not working, then uninstall both the program and the GPU drivers, then re-install the GPU drivers and then the program, in that order.

Does this help?
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post #1541 of 8247
4/2/07 at 11:21pm
I'm suddenly getting the 'incompatible graphics driver message, error=12", and I get it whether my hardware acceleration is on or off. Are the other suggestions to fix this? I had HD DVD working fine, but I'm suddenly getting this message for King King and Serenity (the only two disks I have on hand just now).

System is:
XP 32bit
e4300, overclocked to 2.61ghz
Asrock 775 880pro dual vista mobo
2Gig Corsair DDR2 800 memory
EVGA 7600GT 256mb (non HDCP)
AnyDVD HD
PowerDVD 7.1
XBox 360 drive
Display is a Marquee 8500 CRT Projector
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post #1542 of 8247
4/3/07 at 8:12am
I just got an 8800 GTS and have had a world of hurt getting PowerDVD ultra to work. I had a 7600GT which worked flawlessly...

Is this a driver problem with the 8800 series? On my setup, using the 100.XX driver I can play Universal titles like KK ONLY with hardware acceleration checked. With the released Nvidia drivers, I got a black screen with sound with it checked, and the incompatible driver error with acceleration unchecked with any and all driver versions. Is this a fault of Nvidia or Cyberlink or both?
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post #1543 of 8247
4/3/07 at 2:43pm
hi there, can anyone please help me?

I have 360 drive, powerdvd 7.x (?) on my xp httpc.

I can only get stereo sound - even when passing through the spdif. Does anyone know why this is?

I have 3 sound cards installed (RME 9632 + daughterboard, Lynx-TWOB, onboard Realtech) - how can I choose which soundcard to use?

I'm so used of theatertek....

CaM
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post #1544 of 8247
4/3/07 at 3:04pm
Set the Realtek as the default audio device in Windows before launching PowerDVD. If the RME and Lynx are like my EMU they won't passthru AC3/DTS multichannel.
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post #1545 of 8247
4/3/07 at 3:08pm
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Originally Posted by rdewey View Post

I just got an 8800 GTS and have had a world of hurt getting PowerDVD ultra to work. I had a 7600GT which worked flawlessly...

Is this a driver problem with the 8800 series? On my setup, using the 100.XX driver I can play Universal titles like KK ONLY with hardware acceleration checked. With the released Nvidia drivers, I got a black screen with sound with it checked, and the incompatible driver error with acceleration unchecked with any and all driver versions. Is this a fault of Nvidia or Cyberlink or both?

On XP, right? It's a driver problem. I get the same error with 8800gts and 101.02. It works with 97.92.
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post #1546 of 8247
4/3/07 at 3:17pm
hi, thanks for the info.

I'm pretty sure the RME does though as it works fine for Theatertek on normal dvd's.

That also doesn't explain why I only get stereo with the analogue outs on the RME.

I'll go check though

CaM

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Originally Posted by Tulli View Post

Set the Realtek as the default audio device in Windows before launching PowerDVD. If the RME and Lynx are like my EMU they won't passthru AC3/DTS multichannel.
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post #1547 of 8247
4/3/07 at 3:36pm
OK, so set the RME as default and try. It should work then.
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post #1548 of 8247
4/3/07 at 4:50pm
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Originally Posted by jerrytdss View Post

Does it work without AnyDVD?

Sorry it took so long to get back to you my PSU died had to get another.

Anyway, with out AnyDVD HD PowerDVD just locks up trying to play HD DVD's.
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post #1549 of 8247
4/3/07 at 5:02pm
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Originally Posted by deandob View Post

Hi Ian,

Yes, I'm use AnyDVD (nifty piece of software!). I'll try the disable menus for Canal as I prefer the PowerDVD 6.5 video quality (it uses VRM9 not overlay).
Regards,

I wonder if there is something you can change in the registry for 7.3 to force it to use VRM9 as I agree 6.5 does have better PQ?
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post #1550 of 8247
4/3/07 at 5:11pm
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Originally Posted by Socio View Post

I wonder if there is something you can change in the registry for 7.3 to force it to use VRM9 as I agree 6.5 does have better PQ?

Uhmm ... I watch PDVD 7.3 on my secondary monitor (Vista and XP). I understand that this is not possible in XP with overlay. Right? At least this is like used to be before I got the 8800gts with the new drivers ...
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post #1551 of 8247
4/3/07 at 6:22pm
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Originally Posted by rdewey View Post

I just got an 8800 GTS and have had a world of hurt getting PowerDVD ultra to work. I had a 7600GT which worked flawlessly...

Is this a driver problem with the 8800 series? On my setup, using the 100.XX driver I can play Universal titles like KK ONLY with hardware acceleration checked. With the released Nvidia drivers, I got a black screen with sound with it checked, and the incompatible driver error with acceleration unchecked with any and all driver versions. Is this a fault of Nvidia or Cyberlink or both?

Try the 101.02 Nvidia Beta drivers at Guru3d. This sounds like the exact problem I was having. The beta drivers fixed it for me.

More to come from the above questions when I have the time to answer them fully.

Good Luck
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post #1552 of 8247
4/3/07 at 9:37pm
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Originally Posted by kimang View Post

Do you able to set resolution to 1920x1080 at 60Hz with this beta driver on Vista?

I cannot, with either 100.65 or 101.02 beta. My projector says "out of range". 24p, 30i, and 50p all work fine. I need to hookup a computer LCD and see what the real frequency it's outputting is.
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post #1553 of 8247
4/4/07 at 3:44am
ok, I set the realtech as the default and the spdif worked correctly

thanks for your help.

CaM
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post #1554 of 8247
4/4/07 at 7:44am
Does PDVD Ultra support new AACS keys, when?
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post #1555 of 8247
4/4/07 at 10:50pm
Thuppu, not yet I don't think. I assume there will be a new version at that time.

Ok, so here's a question I've not seen asked:

I have this faint green line at the bottom of my screen, when playing HD-DVDs. Any idea how to get rid of it? It bugs me.
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post #1556 of 8247
4/4/07 at 11:09pm
Can someone translate the PowerDVD advanced video options into ordinary, precise terms?

WTF is Read-It-Clearly? Why is it a prerequisite to hardware de-interlacing?

Smart de-interlacing = it intelligently chooses between ___ ?? Just different deinterlacing algorithms, or also IVTC? Is it talking about frame-by-frame pattern selection or intraframe bob/weave or both?

What combination of settings will tell it "never deinterlace film-source video, just give me the 24p off the disc"?
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post #1557 of 8247
4/4/07 at 11:19pm
this is probally a newb question , but can you play ripped copies of hd-dvd' and blu-ray movies with this program ???
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post #1558 of 8247
4/4/07 at 11:33pm
Yes.
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post #1559 of 8247
4/4/07 at 11:35pm
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Originally Posted by Richard Berg View Post

Can someone translate the PowerDVD advanced video options into ordinary, precise terms?

WTF is Read-It-Clearly? Why is it a prerequisite to hardware de-interlacing?

Smart de-interlacing = it intelligently chooses between ___ ?? Just different deinterlacing algorithms, or also IVTC? Is it talking about frame-by-frame pattern selection or intraframe bob/weave or both?

What combination of settings will tell it "never deinterlace film-source video, just give me the 24p off the disc"?

another chapel hill resident.

anyway, i think read-it-clearly moves the subtitles down lower so they don't overlap the images at much or even at all. not sure why it is a pre-requisite.

for the last question just tick no de-interlacing and then you can be sure it won't try to do something foolish.

as for smart, I THINK it also take IVTC into account, but i'm not 100% sure.
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post #1560 of 8247
4/4/07 at 11:39pm
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Originally Posted by Johnnetbiz View Post

I'm suddenly getting the 'incompatible graphics driver message, error=12", and I get it whether my hardware acceleration is on or off. Are the other suggestions to fix this? I had HD DVD working fine, but I'm suddenly getting this message for King King and Serenity (the only two disks I have on hand just now).

System is:
XP 32bit
e4300, overclocked to 2.61ghz
Asrock 775 880pro dual vista mobo
2Gig Corsair DDR2 800 memory
EVGA 7600GT 256mb (non HDCP)
AnyDVD HD
PowerDVD 7.1
XBox 360 drive
Display is a Marquee 8500 CRT Projector

i've found that nvidia control panel should be closed.
HW accel usually need to be on.
sometimes need to shut down powerdvd and restart

anyway those three always do the trick with the driver/software combo taht has sometimes given me that error.

800GTS
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