Quote: There are few (just google them) but I don't think they are any better.

Arcsoft Total Media theatre is much better than Cyberlink's piece of crab attempt. I was having trouble with this boxset and another bluray. They wouldn't even play in older versions of PowerDVD and had tons of stuttering/sound issues with 11. I downloaded the trial version of Arcsoft's player and guess what? It worked perfectly. Check it out for yourself.

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The interface and features are also much nicer than Cyberlink's.

I'm glad I'm not the only one experiencing this. Playing Star Wars Episode I on Blu-Ray and get choppiness/pixelation randomly but usually after a few minutes. I find pausing and waiting 10 seconds usually fixes it. I get loud pops from the speakers also.

I have PowerDVD 11 that I just bought, a brand new media PC with a core i5-2500k on a Asus mini-itx Z68 motherboard. This set-up plays the dark knight at around 5% cpu usage with the cpu running at 1.8ghz.

When watching Star Wars, core 1 is running at 100% (3.5ghz, so turbo boost is pushing it high) but the video clock is only running at 850mhz (max is 1.1ghz). The other cpu cores are running at 2 to 5%.

This is ruining the movie watching experience and considering I bought this media box/powerDVD set-up solely for this Star Wars release, I would appreciate it being fixed soon.

It's sad when Cyberlink cant fix this prob but I just went to HP ( if you have a HP ) and just fixed it . NO skipping works like a charm . Even HP said that CL cant fix it but we have . Just go to Update your MediaSmart/TouchSmart DVD
on HP's page and it took me 10min .

After Cyberlink support stating a patch for v9 will be available now I read this:
http://www.cyberlink.com/downloads/support/powerdvd/patches_en_US.html

"As the development phase of CyberLink PowerDVD 9 Ultra retail version has now ended, there will be no further Blu-ray Disc compatibility updates for this version. Any Blu-ray Disc titles released after 2011 June may not be compatible with CyberLink PowerDVD 9 Ultra retail version. "

Extremely good work, guys. Brilliant I'd say.

At least you got a response. I still haven't even though my support ticket has been open for about 10 days. It might be time to get a refund and find better software.

An option is to purchase AnyDVD HD. It's well worth the money and will end any compatibility issues with PowerDVD or any DVD/BD software player as it "fools" the players to see the disks as unencrypted and/or region free. And it's updated very regularly too. It allowed me to play the Star Wars disks with PowerDVD 9 quite fine several weeks ago already, for example.

That is just unbeliveable.

it is like an ipod saying it won't play any music from 2012 plus......I can't belive it.....they are being so selfish and lazy.

I'll be sure never to recommend anything by cyberlink to anyone

Have CyberLink Team fix the problem for PowerDVD 11 Then?

Can someone think me some information on this please

Hi,

please refer to this posting:

http://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/19254.page

thanks
Michael Technical Support

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That fix seems to have worked for me. Thank you.

Edit: I take that back. started getting choppy audio and video in chapters 26/27 of Episode 2. An improvement on before, but still issues to be solved.

Quote: An option is to purchase AnyDVD HD. It's well worth the money and will end any compatibility issues with PowerDVD or any DVD/BD software player as it "fools" the players to see the disks as unencrypted and/or region free. And it's updated very regularly too. It allowed me to play the Star Wars disks with PowerDVD 9 quite fine several weeks ago already, for example.

I can confirm this. I bought a lifetime update option for AnyDVD HD just before they removed the lifetime option, and I don't regret a single cent I paid. With that software, you will never have problems again with new BluRay releases.

Star Wars works just fine with it, and without "choppy" audio. My collection: http://www.blu-ray.com/community/collection.php?u=194008&action=showcategory&category=1&categoryid=7

Hello,

the PowerDVD 10 ULTRA Patch to v3322 has just been released.

PowerDVD 10 Patch to v3322 released

it fixes the FOX title issue (pixelation) and the analogue restriction issue.

Greetings
Michael Technical Support

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Michael,

This has also stopped the imbalance in core use - cheers!

Where can I get the 3322 patch? There is the 3306 as the latest on the updates page, and the internal updater tells me there are no updates available.

I agree. The latest link for patches for PowerDVD 10 is the 3306 update. I do this all the time in emails. "I have attached the file you need..." Reply from recipient: "You forgot to attach the file." "D'oh!" Please give us the link. :

Found it using the internal updater. By the way, that internal updater is HARD TO FIND! Yikes... Anyway, thanks for the update. Looking forward to trying it out!

CyberLink-Michael :Im so sorry to tell you that the 100% one core usage still is a problem,nothing has changed!At least for me on my pc.

ive installed the 3322 patch of course.im running on Vista 32bit

Quote: CyberLink-Michael :Im so sorry to tell you that the 100% one core usage still is a problem,nothing has changed!At least for me on my pc.

Hi,
this issue is not reltated to POwerDVD - it is related to the copy protection used by those specific titles.
We are working with Fox to identify the root cause.

The issue has no influence on the playback

BR
Michael Technical Support

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Maybe it's time to revisit the usage of those useless copy protections, which are "cracked" a few days after each new release anyway, and which only annoy honest customers, and not the pirates.

Just my 2 cents to this... maybe you can work with the Fox about that too, Michael. My collection: http://www.blu-ray.com/community/collection.php?u=194008&action=showcategory&category=1&categoryid=7

Dear CyberLink-Michael ,we users gonna appreciate if your team can find something to solve it.Its just no good when someone have a 4 or 6 core cpu's,but only one utilized at 100 percent,the rest of at 1-2.Good luck for the investigation.