PowerDVD 10 - any experts on Blu Ray ?

[cleavers]

Long story, but I've a Dell Studio with a Blu Ray player, and it came with PowerDVD DX, after an upgrade Blu Ray played fine, bit bought a new one yesterday, and it wouldn't play, so I tried the older ones that did play. Now they don't.

I've searched for solutions but can't find any (just a lot of folk with the same problem).

Anyway I decided to buy PowerDVD 10 Ultra, (should have just gone and bought a Blu Ray player from Comet) but I still can't play any. Basically it won't let me set the Blu Ray region code, and gives me an "internal error" when I try to play one, it says I have no of my 5 changes available, but I've never changed the region successfully.

I've tried a couple of hacks and a couple of programs, but they don't work either. Dell couldn't give a shit, and Cyberlink's "help" is worse than useless.

 

[malkie]

Have you tried Sly Soft Any DVD ?

 

[Ragnarok]

One of my friends had a similar issue with his bluray player , and this fix (you may have already tried it) did the trick for him :http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=149191

I will post in this thread if i find any more solutions , but until then i suggest you rip the BD using any of the commonly available free programs and watch it like that.

 

[Russ218]

Download and try Arcsoft TotalMedia Theatre Platinum.

You can rip your blu rays with anydvdhd, but you need to rip them as an image. Beacuse powerdvd will not play blurays from a folder.

 

[cleavers]

Thanks for the replies, much appreciated.

I'd tried that solution ragnorak, it didn't make any difference to PowerDVD because it said I'd used all my chances to change region, even though I'd never used any, and it wouldn't change region on the fly, the app did change, but it didn't affect PowerDVD :-( there was another one I tried was supposed to do the same thing, also failed to work.

I've also tried Arcsoft Total Media, and it just crashes my laptop, (I only downloaded the trial version, but this should work with Bluray), it says I need a better processor, which is ridiculous as it was a brand new top of the range laptop less than 1 year ago, and while I know things move on, you expect more than a years useful use.

I've no idea about "ripping" anything, just want to watch them :)

My solution was to have lots of email rows with Cyberlink, and finally they've refunded in full, so I've taken the money and just bought a Bluray player straight to the TV.

I've told Cyberlink exactly what I think of their support and website, they are utterly useless. I'd avoid paying them for anything until you know it will work, but of course if you need a Bluray software player you can't download a trial, you have to buy the full thing first, and it seems it doesn't work for many.