Hi folks, the honeymoon period for my new LG Blu Ray + HD-DVD drive (GGW-H20L) is over.
I've still yet to try a HD-DVD in it, but have been trying a few Blu Rays mostly all went well. This US Sunshine disk though with all its 1.1 stuff is just a nightmare, I'd stuck with a version of PDVD that still allowed HD material to be played off of HD. Bizarely it was working with Sunshine without AnyDVD, even though it should have been the wrong region. Anyways i'm enjoying the film till i reach about 1 hour 25 minutes in, and then it all starts to stutter, eventually the picture freezes though the timer still ticks up. I've since watched that the actual drive's light stops flashing though my PCs SATA activity continues. Any click of the timeline and PDVD just crashes.
I've since gone a journey where i'd try to fix everything including
i) upgrading to 3516, no help, though the region started to work, and AnyDVD wouldn't bypass it, it just said there was nothing inserted in the drive.
ii) flashing drive to latest firmware, no joy
iii) trying the new arcsoft TotalMedia Theatre player, it didn't help either and seemed rather flacky causing some Blue screens of death on running it, and occasionally when running AnyDVD ! When it was working i was forever wrestling with the permanent directors commentary track which i didn't want on.
When i first encountered this problem i set about ripping the disk to the hdd, sadly i can no longer play this file, and the problem seems to have persisted through the rip when i did try with the older powerdvd.
I've also since tried playing the movies .m2ts file but this typically plays at about 5fps even though the CPU is barely being used, it also seems to think the film is longer than it is, so its clearly not playing it correctly.
I'm going to ask elsewhere about general problems but it really gets on my nerves that i can't even play this film that i brought, well even worse i can till 3/4 of the way in!!!! I just wondered if the problems with the rip that i'm encountering are due to AnyDVD unsuccessfully ripping the disk, would i be best to just rip to ISO without decrypting it, and then use anydvd on the ISO, i thought i'd seen some mention of that about some Bad Disk Guide.
Finally, are more Blu Ray fixes incoming at some point, i take it this disk has all the BD+ rubbish on that taxes AnyDvd's current decrypting and region free-ing.. is there any scope for improvements to be made on this, or am i best steering clear of Blu Ray where possible (something that's going to get increasingly harder) and when i do get one take care to ensure its a simpler disk to play correctly.
What a horrible end to a film night ruined. Thanks guys.
Finally i try running the individual
I've still yet to try a HD-DVD in it, but have been trying a few Blu Rays mostly all went well. This US Sunshine disk though with all its 1.1 stuff is just a nightmare, I'd stuck with a version of PDVD that still allowed HD material to be played off of HD. Bizarely it was working with Sunshine without AnyDVD, even though it should have been the wrong region. Anyways i'm enjoying the film till i reach about 1 hour 25 minutes in, and then it all starts to stutter, eventually the picture freezes though the timer still ticks up. I've since watched that the actual drive's light stops flashing though my PCs SATA activity continues. Any click of the timeline and PDVD just crashes.
I've since gone a journey where i'd try to fix everything including
i) upgrading to 3516, no help, though the region started to work, and AnyDVD wouldn't bypass it, it just said there was nothing inserted in the drive.
ii) flashing drive to latest firmware, no joy
iii) trying the new arcsoft TotalMedia Theatre player, it didn't help either and seemed rather flacky causing some Blue screens of death on running it, and occasionally when running AnyDVD ! When it was working i was forever wrestling with the permanent directors commentary track which i didn't want on.
When i first encountered this problem i set about ripping the disk to the hdd, sadly i can no longer play this file, and the problem seems to have persisted through the rip when i did try with the older powerdvd.
I've also since tried playing the movies .m2ts file but this typically plays at about 5fps even though the CPU is barely being used, it also seems to think the film is longer than it is, so its clearly not playing it correctly.
I'm going to ask elsewhere about general problems but it really gets on my nerves that i can't even play this film that i brought, well even worse i can till 3/4 of the way in!!!! I just wondered if the problems with the rip that i'm encountering are due to AnyDVD unsuccessfully ripping the disk, would i be best to just rip to ISO without decrypting it, and then use anydvd on the ISO, i thought i'd seen some mention of that about some Bad Disk Guide.
Finally, are more Blu Ray fixes incoming at some point, i take it this disk has all the BD+ rubbish on that taxes AnyDvd's current decrypting and region free-ing.. is there any scope for improvements to be made on this, or am i best steering clear of Blu Ray where possible (something that's going to get increasingly harder) and when i do get one take care to ensure its a simpler disk to play correctly.
What a horrible end to a film night ruined. Thanks guys.
Finally i try running the individual