Optimizing Blu-ray Playback

[Riverside666]

I've been having on off problems with my Blu Ray player on my PC between it being Choppy and what not. It turns out that half of my struggles were due to the resolution of my PC. Generally I run at 1900 by 1200 or something close to those numbers I didn't realize that this was screwing up my Playback Ability. Once I moved my overall resolution to the preferred 1900 by 1080 (With Black bars on top and bottom, yes even in windows mode) the playback ability Substantially improved.

Thoughts, ideas, suggestions, and Comments would be gladly heard. I'm still getting use to using windows under this resolution with the black bars but it's something I'm willing to do for Blu.

[dadkins]

Not sure how it works, but this thing stays at 1920x1200.
Every BD has small black bars on the screen... naturally!
Some BDs with other than 1.78:1 have bigger bars... to be expected.

If I set the res to 1920x1080, everything has those black bars - even this browser. Screw that!
Maybe you have some sort of scaling trying to happen to stretch the BD image bigger to fit the screen.
This thing is still at default - or at least *I* have never changed anything.
2.40:1 is wide as hell and BIG bars, 1.78:1 is as near to full screen as I would expect it to be(1080 is smaller than 1200).

Check the screen settings/scaling. Sorry I can't be of more help.

[prerich]

Originally Posted by Riverside666

I've been having on off problems with my Blu Ray player on my PC between it being Choppy and what not. It turns out that half of my struggles were due to the resolution of my PC. Generally I run at 1900 by 1200 or something close to those numbers I didn't realize that this was screwing up my Playback Ability. Once I moved my overall resolution to the preferred 1900 by 1080 (With Black bars on top and bottom, yes even in windows mode) the playback ability Substantially improved.

Thoughts, ideas, suggestions, and Comments would be gladly heard. I'm still getting use to using windows under this resolution with the black bars but it's something I'm willing to do for Blu.

Tell me about your PC -what are your specs?

[bb::bd]

Originally Posted by Riverside666

I've been having on off problems with my Blu Ray player on my PC between it being Choppy and what not. It turns out that half of my struggles were due to the resolution of my PC. Generally I run at 1900 by 1200 or something close to those numbers I didn't realize that this was screwing up my Playback Ability. Once I moved my overall resolution to the preferred 1900 by 1080 (With Black bars on top and bottom, yes even in windows mode) the playback ability Substantially improved.

Thoughts, ideas, suggestions, and Comments would be gladly heard. I'm still getting use to using windows under this resolution with the black bars but it's something I'm willing to do for Blu.

This is why you want to play your media at its native resolution. My PZ700U Plasma has a setting that turns on 3 percent overscan for messy signals. I can always tell its on, it doesn't take much to mess up good PQ.

[Riverside666]

I have 2 laptops and both of them seems to be having the same issue when playing at 1900 by 1200. As soon as I move to 1900 by 1080 my Blu's play flawlessly I just don't understand why I have to have black bars even in Windows Mode. ** Note I am not saying that my Blu's will not play at 1900 by 1200 I'm saying that it'll play while having lag, and there will be no lag at 1900 by 1080** I have the settings keep Aspect ratio it has to do with something about filling in the pixels or something. I'm using the latest updates on Ultra.

Anyways I feel my laptops are high end but these are the specs

latpop 1:

Dell m1710 on Windows XP
2.6 ghz Core 2 duo 667 FSB, 4 meg cache
3 gigs of ram ddr2, 667mhz
7950 GTX with 512 mb ddr3 memory
100 gig HDD
BLU ray UJ 220

LAptop 2:
Dell M1730 on Vista
Intel Core 2 Extreme X7900 (2.8GHz/800Mhz FSB, 4MB Cache)
4 gb of ram dd2, also 667 mhz
400 gig HDD 7200 rpm
NVIDIA SLI Dual GeForce 8800M GTX with 1GB GDDR3 Memory
AGEIA PhysX 100M Processor

[haste]

which software are u using to play your blu-rays?
from my experience most video players have an option to set the resolution when playing movies in "fullscreen". that way the video player switch the resolution automatically for you....

[prerich]

Originally Posted by Riverside666

I have 2 laptops and both of them seems to be having the same issue when playing at 1900 by 1200. As soon as I move to 1900 by 1080 my Blu's play flawlessly I just don't understand why I have to have black bars even in Windows Mode. ** Note I am not saying that my Blu's will not play at 1900 by 1200 I'm saying that it'll play while having lag, and there will be no lag at 1900 by 1080** I have the settings keep Aspect ratio it has to do with something about filling in the pixels or something. I'm using the latest updates on Ultra.

Anyways I feel my laptops are high end but these are the specs

latpop 1:

Dell m1710 on Windows XP
2.6 ghz Core 2 duo 667 FSB, 4 meg cache
3 gigs of ram ddr2, 667mhz
7950 GTX with 512 mb ddr3 memory
100 gig HDD
BLU ray UJ 220

LAptop 2:
Dell M1730 on Vista
Intel Core 2 Extreme X7900 (2.8GHz/800Mhz FSB, 4MB Cache)
4 gb of ram dd2, also 667 mhz
400 gig HDD 7200 rpm
NVIDIA SLI Dual GeForce 8800M GTX with 1GB GDDR3 Memory
AGEIA PhysX 100M Processor

Your laptops are extemely high end!!! It has to do with the native resolution of your screen. Those black bars have nothing to "fill in" for the extra 120 lines you are not using in Windows. In the Nvidia control panel you can tell your video card exactly how you want it to appear (to include resizing 1920x1080 to fit the entire window in Vista). When you tell it to keep the ratio - it will give you the black bars in Vista because you are not using the othe 120 pixel lines. I hope this helps or at least gets you started on the right track.

[Riverside666]

OK! perfect example is Sunshine WOW can't belive how picky this disk is. If I play the movie while my computer is at 1900 by 1200 (It's native) it doesn't matter what I do with the window or anything the movie just craps out. At first glance most people would figure the disk is flawed or Cyberlink is flawed, Lucky for me I'm not most people, lol. So I re do my resolution to the 1900 by 1080 and then it plays Flawless I mean everything is a problem the Menu doesn't load right the video lags everything is just awful. But as soon as I move to the resolution it's like Night and Day, the difference is so large that it's got me scratching my head.