PowerDVD Ultra (HD-DVD and Blu-Ray) - Page 148

I am getting notable frame dropping in one partcular Blu-ray title, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Best I can tell it only happen whenever the bitrate goes past 26Mbps. Perhaps the fact that it is MPEG-4 could also be an issue, as it is the only disk I have which uses that format. Anyway, has anyone else had or heard of others having trouble with such disks?

Set your display resolution to 1080p. If you're using XP or MCE 2005, right-click on the desktop and select properties.

Go to the Settings tab and choose the Advanced button and change your DPI settings to custom setting and choose 150%. That should enlarge things.

Then go back to the Display Properties and under the Apperance tab change your font size to Large.

Hi fellows,
I just received my LG-HD/BD drive and just finished installing it. I tried the new Pirates of the Caribeean (part 3) BD disc and It plays fine with full 5.1 sound.

Now, I'm wondering how do I back-up this BD-DVD disc to my hard drive?
What application do I need? DVDShrink?
I have AnyDVD-HD and ImgBurn.
I'm running Vista 32-bit Ultimate

just imgburn...use the read mode and make an ISO. Then mount the ISO with daemontools.

FYI - I asked Cyberlink some Q's on PDVD & I thought I would share their prompt but not very encoraging response (any other workaround or suggestions would be warmly welcome!):

Questions to Cyberlink:

Hi, I've got V7.5 (after free upgrade of the OEM version that came with the LG GGV-H20 combo BluRay / HD-DVD Drive) but have a couple of questions I can not find the answer for:
1) Sound Over HDMI (I'd like to output the 5.1PCM track over HDMI) - I can output sound over S/PDIF but not HDMI (works on all other programs just for PDVD)
2) Integration with HTPC Front End - I can start up PDVD from inside my HTPC SW (JR Media Center) and control it with my MCE RC just fine but would like PDVD to close OR handback control to the HTPC SW when playback is finished or stoped. Are there any switches (or other means) to enable this?
3) 1080/24p Support - Can PDVD be configured to dynamically change the video output to 1080/24p when playing BluRay / HD-DVD then revert to the previous resolution / timing settings when playback is finished?

Response from Cyberlink:

Thank you for contacting CyberLink Online Customer Support.

In regard to your issue, we regret to say that all the 3 points which you have mentioned in your email are not supported PowerDVD Ultra software and therefore will not work. The PowerDVD Ultra is not designed to provide such features.

We regret the inconvenience you have encountered so far.

So is an ISO file that is needed? I thought that it needed to be in UDF format?

And just to confirm this still works at 3516?

With regards to question #3 above, you are getting 1080p24 playback though, right? I do...

yes, and i just found that running anydvdhd in the background seems to help jsut enough by probably helping reduce the AACS decryption load in one way or another. but if you don't already have it let me test a little more first.

Thank you very much.

Regards,

Yup - thanks to archibael's suggestion I use batch files to get ResChange to swap between 24hz and 50hz manually.

First, I was able to ameliorate the problem by going into my Samsung TV's service mode and turning off the overscan feature. When it plays movies, it now cuts off roughly half the height of the taskbar from the bottom of the screen, which is probably not enough overscan to get up in arms about; however, I have noticed that I can still see slightly more of the image around the edges when I have a movie windowed as opposed to running full screen, and it's annoying me that I am cutting off part of the picture, no matter how small it is.

Secondly, I know perfectly well the setting you mention. I have been working with it extensively, and as I said, no matter how I have adjusted the picture using the resize menu, those settings are TEMPORARILY discarded when I start to watch a high definition movie. If I make my screen as small or as large as possible before I play back a movie, I will have the same amount of overscan when I start the movie. Once the movie stops, the screen goes back to being normal. If I try to adjust the screen DURING playback, with the old version of the drivers, it would cause the video to flash to a black screen for a few moments, and then PowerDVD would tell me that HDCP was not available on the system. The curent (beta) version of the nVidia drivers don't even allow you to reduce the size of the screen while a video is playing, but only before or afterwards. The more I look at it, the more I am beginning to think that the card does not support overscan compensation when HDCP is enabled. Perhaps it is a limitation of the 8400GS.

guys,

is it possible for powerdvd to output 24hz video, and more importantly will the video card (Radeon 3850) output at 24hz?

You need three things to get smooth 24p output:
1) 24p Media (all BluRay / HD-DVD) & PDVD = OK
2) 24hz (or a multiple) support from your Graphics Card = OK for me on an Intel G33 and I use ResChange to change from between 50 and 25hz
3) Monitor that will support 24hz (or a multiple) = OK for me on a Pio Kuro 60" but not all TV's / Displays support this frequency.

Thanks
Nathan

Does PDVD Ultra work with Windows MCE remote control?

Yes - I've got it working as we speak

Yes, I use with via Girder + USB-UIRT

Anyone have problems running ISO with:
PDVD 3516
Daemon V4.10
Imgburn
AnyDVD HD

Anything above PDVD 3319a gives me either Unrecognize Format or Internal Error but only on Live Free/Die Hard and The Day After Tomorrow?

I just installed my LG drive, and the PowerDVD 7.3 it came with, ripped World's End with anydvd-HD, and am watching it . Video bitrate is between 20 and 40 Mbps, Dolby 5.1 at 640 kbps.

Processor between 30-40%
Intel x6800 cpu @2.93ghz
2 GB ram
8800 ultra in SLI
hardware acceleration on

LPCM runs at 6912 kbps

Yes, it is UDF, but imgburn calls the resulting file an ISO.

guys does anydvdhd have any negative effects on the system? Can I set it up to only run when I want to rip a disc?

in an HTPC??? (Just kidding, I'm sure it's your gaming machine as well).

I didn't have the program but I downloaded the free trial at your suggestion, and while it says it removed the AACS encryption, that movie drops frames during high bitrate scenes just the same. CPU usage never tops 30% on my C2D, but I wonder if maybe the transfer speed from the drive just isn't enough or if perhaps it is my 8800gt's hardware acceleration that is choking. Regardless, I'd like to find the cause of the issue, so I'd like to hear what more testing on your system turns up.

And has anyone else run The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, either playing smoothly or with dropped frames?

Yes, from months of using it, it's perfectly "disable-able". You know what, I find these "sneaky" or "shady" (as some would like us believe) programs much cleaner and less annoying than the supposedly mainstream or "clean" ones. Just not going too far, PowerDVD installed at least 3 totally unnecessary sneaky processes, and now with 3516 I noticed it installs a fourth one, brs.exe or something like that. You need to go to msconfig to disable these, or better, get autoruns from sysinternals.com. With AnyDVD, you can disable autostart right there from the program itself easily.

By the way, anyone playing movies in a laptop with either a nVidia 8400 or 8700? How's HW acceleration working? I'm thinking of building myself a laptop for work.

of course, jsut turn off auto-start in the menu.

that said, for me at least, for whatever reason if I don't have it running in the background, spiderman is all choppy and if it IS running then it is smooth.
just tested that out again.

i hope it will also solve the choppiness in my other new avc highbitrate blurays too. if so, it might actualy be good to just leave it running, at least for some people.

What bitrates are you seeing in Spiderman where it was choppy without AnyDVD? And are you using a videocard that supports hardware acceleration, or if not what CPU?

ditto, what videocard are you using. From reading a lot of the posts on here most folks with playback issues seem to be using nvidia cards.

I'm using a 8600GTS with 163.75 drivers, and no (major) playback issues. No choppiness and such with either blu-rays or HD-DVDs, but I do get a thin green line at the bottom of the 16:9 frame in full screen with 163 drivers. With 169 drivers it's not there, but I get forced levels expansion for HD and not for SD, which is a pretty annoying bug, so I'm sticking with 163 for the time being.

Whats forced levels expansions?

8800gt here, with the 169.09 drivers.


Has anyone else run The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, either playing smoothly or with dropped frames?