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Current "best" BD software player

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liels

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My PDVD8 which I've been using to play BDs is not handling current titles and has no updates.

What is the current consensus, if any, on the most reasonable software player for blu-rays? I tried MC16 and was having slow video & audio sync problems, it seems to not be able to mix to DTS or even AC3 over s/pdif (which I need for my Yamaha YSP-1100 3D sound bar).

Are the only other choices PowerDVD 11 or TMT5?

FWIW, TMT5 is 20% off today ...

Thanks
 
liels said:
My PDVD8 which I've been using to play BDs is not handling current titles and has no updates.
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Really? Try playing back while AnyDVD is running.
 
James said:
Really? Try playing back while AnyDVD is running.
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Really. Two titles. Green Zone gets through the previews then just hangs with a black screen (if I try to skip through them or not). Fox gives a message in yellow on a red background right at the beginning of Casino Jack (before previews) saying the BD player needs to be updated, go see your vendors website, it's not our problem. Or something to that effect.

I had to update PDVD 8 some time ago (a year maybe) to get some titles to play. At that point I lost the HD-DVD playback hack but BDs worked well until now.

Just to be sure, I uninstalled everything other than graphics/sound/network drivers and re-installed the PDVD8 and AnyDVD from scratch.

AnyDVD is always running on that machine (it only ever is a mythtv frontend or PowerDVD platform), currently 6.8.2.0.
 
Hokay ... I guess I'll take a leap and buy the TMT while the sale is still in effect. Honestly though, I would much rather have bought foxplayer (yes I know it is supposed to be for free but here we are :)
 
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