Hellboy II freezing?

[kevjan]

I had the exact same problem on the exact same scene. The baby in the air and the big plant thing in the middle of the street. No other disc I have freezes like that.

I went out and got a laser cleaner for my ps3 and that was a lot of fun. First the ps3 doesn't recognize the disc so I can't put it to track 3 like it said to. When the disc was in, all it did was spin around, make a terrible noise and then I ejected the thing. I returned the disc cleaner afterwards.

Afterwords I vaccumed the vents on the ps3 and tried to clean it out the best I could. Since then, the movie works just fine and does not freeze anymore.

I guess that section of the disc is crazy for processing or something, there is a lot happening there. I guess a semi-dirty laser could cause it to skip. I'm not a doctor, but I was able to frankenstien a solution.

Get your laser cleaned.

[bhampton]

I wouldn't use a cleaning disc but I do vaccuum the vents on my PS3 every few months or whenever I notice it's dusty.

The problem being there is likely something to do with a BD-Live feature or something. (I think there are some pip features with this movie... I'm not sure I usually ignore that stuff.)

-Brian

[blu-bry]

You know, a lot of us were having this exact same thing happen on "Baraka" some time ago, but a firmware update by Sony took care of the problem. I realize that you said your firmware is up to date, I'm just wondering if Sony needs to be made aware that people are having this issue at the same point on this disc. Maybe a new firmware update needs to be released.

[Spiderbri]

I'll replace that laser when Hellboy Freezes over!!!!

sorry couldn't resist

seriously I'd play a few movies in thier from start to finish. Just jumping to different scenes on diff movies and only letting them play for a few mins might not trigger a glitch. Could be when it heats up it freezes (counterintuitive of course lol)

what about games do those play well with no stutters or freezes?

[bhampton]

I don't remember the baby throwing scene in Baraka

[Iron-Blu-123]

I also use a PS3 60gb with latest update (got my January 2007). play Hellboy II bluray few times and no freeze, watch all my bluray collection with PS3, none freeze yet.

[MrJoeKalel]

Originally Posted by bhampton

I don't remember the baby throwing scene in Baraka

[Wdm81]

Originally Posted by kevjan

I had the exact same problem on the exact same scene. The baby in the air and the big plant thing in the middle of the street. No other disc I have freezes like that.

I went out and got a laser cleaner for my ps3 and that was a lot of fun. First the ps3 doesn't recognize the disc so I can't put it to track 3 like it said to. When the disc was in, all it did was spin around, make a terrible noise and then I ejected the thing. I returned the disc cleaner afterwards.

Afterwords I vaccumed the vents on the ps3 and tried to clean it out the best I could. Since then, the movie works just fine and does not freeze anymore.

I guess that section of the disc is crazy for processing or something, there is a lot happening there. I guess a semi-dirty laser could cause it to skip. I'm not a doctor, but I was able to frankenstien a solution.

Get your laser cleaned.

Awesome, i'm gonna give that a try, i might pick up some of that canned air stuff at best buy, its always good for getting rid of dust

Originally Posted by Spiderbri

what about games do those play well with no stutters or freezes?

the games i have work fine and i've tried about 15 other blurays and none of them freeze (haven't watch the entire movies though just parts) hellboy II just seems to be a little ******* right at that part...i'm also thinking it could be a BD live issue, perhaps it worked fine before but a recent PS3 firmware update made it stop working...if thats even possible, but i know for sure i watched the movie twice before and it never did that

[Wdm81]

Ok, so just a little update, i did some playing around and discovered that if you turn on U control and select the feature during that scene where you can watch 3 different effects stages of that scene, it overlays 3 screens over the movie but it plays without freezing (for the time being its the only I can watch the entire movie, but U control only needs to be on for that one chapter)

So the fact that it plays fine with U control enabled leads me to believe the freezing is a java problem, and if this is wide spread you think universal would issue an update

well at least i am making progress, i was ready to just go buy a second copy of Hellboy II so i could watch the movie uninterupted... Who knew U control would be good for something

[Mr.White]

The thread should be called Helboy II Freezes Over!

[jasonicus]

Originally Posted by Mr.White

The thread should be called Helboy II Freezes Over!

I need a drum for that gem.