tgp7777777
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VCD currently emulates a DVD/BD drive. Can it or, will it , emulate a UHD drive?
Yes it does.No quite answering the question I know but doesn't a real UHD drive show up in Windows as a BD drive anyway?
No quite answering the question I know but doesn't a real UHD drive show up in Windows as a BD drive anyway?
No, you didn't mention anything about passing the test in your originak question.If you want to play UHD ISO "Full fat" i.e menus etc in Powerdvd then your system must pass the 4K BD Advisor tests. You can have everything pass the test, protected path, Kaby lake etc etc but it still won't play unless you have a 4K blu-Ray drive. My question was, can VCD allow your system to pass the test without having to buy an actual 4k Blu-ray drive. Apparently it cannot.
No, you didn't mention anything about passing the test in your originak question.
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In my tests it worked fine, so why do you think it cannot?If you want to play UHD ISO "Full fat" i.e menus etc in Powerdvd then your system must pass the 4K BD Advisor tests. You can have everything pass the test, protected path, Kaby lake etc etc but it still won't play unless you have a 4K blu-Ray drive. My question was, can VCD allow your system to pass the test without having to buy an actual 4k Blu-ray drive. Apparently it cannot.
In my tests it worked fine, so why do you think it cannot?
Well, of course you don't. But if you mount an unprotected (or protected, with AnyDVD running) image, PowerDVD will play it. At least last time, I tried.Hi James. Because when I mounted a 4K ISO and ran the Bd Advisor, it said my setup failed on not having a 4K Blu-Ray player.
In HDR James?Well, of course you don't. But if you mount an unprotected (or protected, with AnyDVD running) image, PowerDVD will play it. At least last time, I tried.
I believe so. PowerDVD doesn't need an "official" drive, as it has no need to decrypt AACS "officially". The rest of the system must meet the insane requirements (CPU, SGX, ... ), for no apparent reason. I haven't tested it much. But you can try it yourself, if you have all the pieces.In HDR James?
I thought that using AnyDVD eliminated all of those requirements if you played the disk with it on?I believe so. PowerDVD doesn't need an "official" drive, as it has no need to decrypt AACS "officially". The rest of the system must meet the insane requirements (CPU, SGX, ... ), for no apparent reason. I haven't tested it much. But you can try it yourself, if you have all the pieces.
I thought that using AnyDVD eliminated all of those requirements if you played the disk with it on?
In HDR James?
Maybe it doesn't need SGX, but it will certainly need the correct Intel HD graphics connected to the display (no Nvidia or AMD card), so it is hard to verify, if it will need SGX or not.I thought that using AnyDVD eliminated all of those requirements if you played the disk with it on?
AnyDVD allows the UHD disc to play in your drive, or a protected UHD .iso to play in VirtualCloneDrive, but can do nothing to avoid PDVD's ridiculous requirements, which involve more than drive itself.
Hi tgp7777777.
Yes in HDR.
When I mount a UHD .iso and try to play it on a non-HDR monitor, PDVD says the monitor can't play HDR content and do I want to use non-HDR mode. So the HDR is available on the .iso through VCD.
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It might have been the 4K drive that was the charm or maybe it was something else.
As you and me have discussed before, PDVD is so flaky playing 4K ISO rips that it could have been something else (such as the weather or the time of day)
Maybe it doesn't need SGX, but it will certainly need the correct Intel HD graphics connected to the display (no Nvidia or AMD card), so it is hard to verify, if it will need SGX or not.
Maybe not. If someone has the time to try...
Powerdvd enforces SGX at the software level or it won't do HDR period. A user contacted cyberlink about it. Took them a while to admit it, but even for unprotected content it's required for HDR
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Is this an implementation thing or does the HDR standard require SGX even for content that is not encrypted?Powerdvd enforces SGX at the software level or it won't do HDR period. A user contacted cyberlink about it. Took them a while to admit it, but even for unprotected content it's required for HDR