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Just got my blu-ray drive in yesterday and its working fine. My problem is more on the software side of things. I thought I heard that VLC was capable of playing BD's now but what I didn't catch is that's apparently only possible with anyDVD. I tried this and it works but VLC doesn't look like its doing a good job scaling 1080p to my 1680 x 1050 monitor. The diagonal edges are very rough.
So I tried a few demo blu-ray software packages. I first tried TMT3. Works great but the black level is obviously outputting 16-235 to my monitor instead of the normal 0-255. Because of this my black level looks HORRIBLE. The rest of the picture quality looks good though.
I thought it may just be because TMT3 didn't give me the option to set the RGB range so I tried powerDVD. Same result with a bit more problems on playback in terms of the program freezing.
From what I see though the problem is actually with my ATI graphics card. From what I've read, nVIDIA gives the option to set the output range(not sure if this is just for HDMI outputs) between 16-235 and 0-255. I've had this issue before in other software like windows media player. However, I just utilized VLC or mplayer(with FFDshow which lets me specify conversion to 0-255) to get around it. Now that these players don't work or only work with marginal quality I'd like to fix this issue.
Anyone with an ATI graphics card replicate this issue or have a fix for it? I've tried ATI drivers 9.6 and 9.7 in windows 7 and Vista.
So I tried a few demo blu-ray software packages. I first tried TMT3. Works great but the black level is obviously outputting 16-235 to my monitor instead of the normal 0-255. Because of this my black level looks HORRIBLE. The rest of the picture quality looks good though.
I thought it may just be because TMT3 didn't give me the option to set the RGB range so I tried powerDVD. Same result with a bit more problems on playback in terms of the program freezing.
From what I see though the problem is actually with my ATI graphics card. From what I've read, nVIDIA gives the option to set the output range(not sure if this is just for HDMI outputs) between 16-235 and 0-255. I've had this issue before in other software like windows media player. However, I just utilized VLC or mplayer(with FFDshow which lets me specify conversion to 0-255) to get around it. Now that these players don't work or only work with marginal quality I'd like to fix this issue.
Anyone with an ATI graphics card replicate this issue or have a fix for it? I've tried ATI drivers 9.6 and 9.7 in windows 7 and Vista.
