:^/ Hey there, everyone.

I recently tried the demo version of Power DVD 9 (Ultra), and it played Iron Man perfectly, so I went ahead and bought the full commercial version.

Well, it plays some movies just fine, but it has trouble with others. And some have no video at all. I've used PowerDVD 9's own Movie Info button to look at the discs' parameters, and I've noticed something. My discs that play video use either MPEG-4 AVC or VC1, while the two that do not work use MPEG-2.

I'll list them:

Works as expected; put the disk in, and it plays:
• (MPEG-4 AVC) Fantastic Four, Rise of the Silver Surfer
• (MPEG-4 AVC) Iron Man
• (MPEG-4 AVC) Ratatouille

Kinda works; the introduction has no video, but video comes in for the menu/movie:
• (MPEG-4 AVC) Pursuit of Happyness
• (MPEG-4 AVC) Spider-Man 3
• (VC1) Superman II, the Richard Donner Cut

Works only if we can blindly navigate the menu system to launch the movie:
• (MPEG-4 AVC) Pirates of the Caribbean, At World's End

Doesn't work; we can hear the audio, but no video comes in:
• (MPEG-2) Space Cowboys
• (MPEG-2) Stranger than Fiction

;^) As we can see, so far both of the movies that fail to ever produce any video use the MPEG-2 format, and both of the movies with MPEG-2 have failed. I'm curious what experience others have had with this. Feel free to add your own movies to the list.