Rookie with issues

[XLR28]

Hi,

I have built a computer from scratch and am having some issues. Most recently I have updated from Cyberlink's PowerDVD 6.6 that came with my Liteon BD Drive to PowerDVD 7.3 for Windows Vista 64-bit support.

I put in a variety of blu-ray movies and hit the play button and nothing happens... no error messages, no anything. The drive recognizes that it has a BD disc inserted and windows reads a 22.8 GB logical volume ID but will not display the movie name like it does with a DVD.

How does windows recognize movie titles of the BD format? Windows recognizes the drive in the hardware profile as being a DVD/CD drive but no Blu-Ray - but I am not suprised that it doesn't since the drive should be generic anyhow. I just don't know what is 'normal' and what isn't. Can anyone help? I am nearly at wits end.

XLR28

[DrinkMore]

You need to make sure your Monitor and Video card are HDCP compliant. If they are not, you won't see anything on your screen.

[XLR28]

I have a 58" Panasonic Plasma TV and a blu-ray approved nVidia GeForce GPU. I run Cyberlink's are you ready for Blu-Ray utility and everything's a go.

[jorg]

maybe you need to download codecs? what movies are you trying? and dose the drive work with dvds? whats your ram and cpu spec





99% sure it is becuase of vista

[XLR28]

Here is my setup:
Intel Core 2 Duo 6300 @ 1.86GHz
2GB of RAM
64-bit OS Windows Vista Ultimate
NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT
Lite-on BD B LH-2B1S (newest firmware)
Audio and Video via HDMI to 58" Panasonic Viesa Plasma TV
Cyberlink Power DVD 7.3 BD (latest update)
Blu-Ray Movies I have and have tried to play:
The Fifth Element
Pirates of the Caribbean 1 and 2
The Transporter 1 and 2
Lara Croft Tomb Raider
Underworld - Evolution
Hitchhikers Gide to the Galaxy
King Arthur
Kingdom of Heaven

The system plays regular DVD's without issue.

To someone who watches Blu-Ray movies on their PC when you open my computer while a movie is in the drive, what does the drive say is loaded? Does is say the movie title or just "DVD RW Drive (D): LOGICAL_VOLUME_ID 0 bytes free of 22.8 GB" I think mine should read "The Fifth Element" but it doesn't. Since I can't get microsoft to help with the troubleshooting and I have not gotten it to work as of yet, I have nothing to compare it to to see where I need to go from here.

Thanks for the assistance.

XLR28

[wanderer]

I have a sony BD drive and I can play "the Fifth element" in it. When I insert the BD disc, windows will not display movie title, but only volume information. BTW, i can play it with PowerDVD6.6, maybe you install 6.6 again?

[XLR28]

Unfortunately, 6.6 and my 64-bit windows vista like to but heads and not play nicely.