Just to say, before my new asus eah5850, I had a Nvidia 8800GT in the same configuration (windows 7 x64 + powerdvd 9 ultra) and the hardware acceleration worked like a charm...

Updated to Catalyst 10.2 and the problem is still here...

OK the problem came from the catalyst drivers options.

You need to disable "Dynamic Brightness" & "Enable smooth playback"
Now everything is fine.

Quack

Hi!

I just bought an LG BE08LU20 BL player and it came with PowerDVD 8.
When I try to play Blu ray Disc the movie is extremly jerky and lags very bad.
(I tried 3 different original Discs, and all my programs/OS are legal and up to date all the time)
I updated the firmware of the Blu-ray drive, and its connected to my laptop via USB.
Before you tell something like "USB is too slow for this" I tell you: after the drive buffers the trailers or the Blu ray menu, its still jerky. Each Core of my CPU is at 5-25% while I try to play BR movies. HD 1080 .MKV files play nice and smoothly on Media player Classic, and uses 50-90% of my CPU. My laptop doesn't overheat.

I got Full version of Power DVD 8 (also tried PDVD 10 ultra Trial but that also failed)
SN: DVD100201-01
Version:8.0.3228f.50
I have no idea What TR number is.
Windows7 Ultimate x64
I use administrator account.
I guess my PowerDVD bundles with HW.

My PC is a notebook with the folowing parameters:
Dell XPS M1530
Intel Core2 Duo T7250 (2.00 GHz)
Geforce 8600M GT 256 MB (driver: 8.17.12.6099)
4 GB ram
Audio Device: SigmaTel High Definition Audio CODEC (driver: 6.10.0.5866)
ODD drive: Model = BE08LU20, Version = 2.00
Used Display: 15" Laptop Display with 1920x1200 native resolution. (Connection type: LVDS I guess)
I use only this display.
I use Microsoft Security Essentials (up to date)

Please Help!

Sanyi