The Cyberlink BD HD DVD advisor is a useful too but it is still in beta and it can only basically verify the presence of the necessary components not that they are functional and working correctly.
Also note that it is divided into a BD compliant test and an HD DVD compliancy test whereby BD is offered first (top) and HD DVD testing is offered last (bottom).
If like “hiro1030” you ran the test, have an HD DVD drive installed and still get a “red” response for the HD DVD drive,….I would first check the obvious such as; drive is not installed properly, not turned on, not plugged in, the BD test was performed rather then the HD DVD drive and so on,….
In the case of JL32BiT, I would just try anything to make PowerDVD Ultra 7.1 happy. Try using an analog VGA connection to an analog VGA connection (if you haven’t already) and see if that helps, Update drivers, turn off dual monitor support,….anything,… also ripping to the HDD and playing from there might have some effect (unlikely I think).
As for the CPU, even some of the fastest CPUs, yes Core 2 Duo included, can be taxed to and beyond their limits without GPU hardware assistance in HD DVD playback (depending on encoding). For those users that have qualifying video cards (and underling support) open PowerDVD and right click the play surface and click “configuration” from the menu. Click the “Video tab” then click the “Enable Hardware Acceleration” check box. For ATI cards it should say “Enable Hardware Acceleration (AVIVO)” but all ATI cards are not AVIVO compliant. This is probably why in part Cyberlink recommends a X1600 series video card and above for ATI (7600 and above for nVidia).
I’m no expert but I’m guessing that ATI cards below the X1600 series such as the X800 series will not provide any GPU hardware assistance. Perhaps the X1300, X1550 and maybe even some motherboards with integrated ATI video can lend hardware assistance but perhaps not enough.
I don’t think this is JL32BiT problem though because even if the CPU is taking all of the load it should still be able to play,….jerky maybe,…
It should be noted however that Cyberlinks software has a number of bugs and you don’t have to look too far to find them.
There is an updated Cyberlink BD / HD advisor for download here:
http://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/928.page
This was an update for those PowerDVD Ultra users that where hit hard with the 0103 Error so it may be more thorough during its checks
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BTW, there is supposedly going to be a ~$30 WinDVD 8 HD update pack to add BD / HD DVD support to existing WinDVD 8 installs this quarter,…so some time this month. If it works on WinDVD Gold it should cost about ~$65 in total which is reasonably cheaper then PowerDVD Ultra‘s ~$100,…so a price brake on PowerDVD Ultra may be in order soon:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2074264,00.asp
http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/12/21/windvd-hd-upgrade-pack-priced-tested/