All2HD mode on Windvd 9 plus blu-ray

[hanksharpe]

Hi,
I've just bought a blu-ray player for my pc with the windvd 9 plus blu-ray.
So far I was able to watch all the movies without any trouble until i tried all2hd mode.
i understand that this mode allows up-convert the SD quality to near HD quality (so no point of using it to blu-ray since blu-ray's standard resolution is 1080p) also increases frame rates from 24 upto 60 by calculating pixel movements.
I was able to use the motion plus with sd-dvd no problem, but how come it greys out when i pop my blu-ray disc into my player. I can't uncheck the "use the hardware acceleration" when blu-ray is in, but I can on sd-dvds.
I heard motion plus works more better with higher resolution movies especially with animated movies, and I want to try it out really bad.
Any help?

basic specs of my pc is:
Win Vista 64bit ultimate
intel e6750 oc'ed to 3.6
geforce 8800 gtx (plugged into my hd-tv 1080p via dvi-hdmi cable)
4 gig corsair memory @ 800mhz
p.s. all the drivers are up-to-date.

thanks in advance.

[essinger]

I'd guess that hardware acceleration is required for blu-ray as a copy protection measure. If your computer were allowed to decode the frames in RAM it might be trivial to divert them to disk. But I'm just guessing.

[prerich]

Originally Posted by hanksharpe

Hi,
I've just bought a blu-ray player for my pc with the windvd 9 plus blu-ray.
So far I was able to watch all the movies without any trouble until i tried all2hd mode.
i understand that this mode allows up-convert the SD quality to near HD quality (so no point of using it to blu-ray since blu-ray's standard resolution is 1080p) also increases frame rates from 24 upto 60 by calculating pixel movements.
I was able to use the motion plus with sd-dvd no problem, but how come it greys out when i pop my blu-ray disc into my player. I can't uncheck the "use the hardware acceleration" when blu-ray is in, but I can on sd-dvds.
I heard motion plus works more better with higher resolution movies especially with animated movies, and I want to try it out really bad.
Any help?

basic specs of my pc is:
Win Vista 64bit ultimate
intel e6750 oc'ed to 3.6
geforce 8800 gtx (plugged into my hd-tv 1080p via dvi-hdmi cable)
4 gig corsair memory @ 800mhz
p.s. all the drivers are up-to-date.

thanks in advance.

You can't use all2hd with BD because it's all ready HD. It will do that with any 1080P content (to include WMV-HD or HD-DVD). You can only use it with SD material (I haven't tried it 720p material yet). This is normal.

[hanksharpe]

thanks for the reply prerich. But I wasn't trying to upconert the bluray movies, I was only trying to enable the digital motion enhancer, so I can watch certain movies with 60fps instead of 24fps.

Maybe essimger is right, maybe I do need my hardware accelerator to play the bluray.

[prerich]

Originally Posted by hanksharpe

thanks for the reply prerich. But I wasn't trying to upconert the bluray movies, I was only trying to enable the digital motion enhancer, so I can watch certain movies with 60fps instead of 24fps.

Maybe essimger is right, maybe I do need my hardware accelerator to play the bluray.

Yes you need the hw accelerator to play BD. Maybe I didn't say it clearly , you can use the digital motion enhancer with Bluray material (its all included in the all2hd stuff - that's not compatible with BD.

[hanksharpe]

oh thanks for the quick response. Bummer... I really hoped that there was some ways to work around it. Is there a software player that supports motion enhancer other than windvd? Or do I just have to buy a $2000 120hz tv