Messages posted by Trey

I updated my video drivers to the latest and got the same results. I installed Corel WinDVD and got no such problems. I will not be purchasing PowerDVD. Ever.

I'm having a playback freeze and system unresponsiveness issue requiring a power cycle with PowerDVD. The system is responsive enough for me to load task manager, but each click to get to that point takes several minutes to process. Once task manager is loaded I see that PowerDVD has consumed an order of magnitude more memory than any other process (330MB vs ~20MB. The Blu-Ray movie I'm viewing plays perfectly fine for a few minutes, but then the image freezes and no more audio is heard. It takes an inordinate amount of time for the system to respond to any navigation commands with the mouse and keyboard, and killing the PowerDVD (watched through Windows Media Center) seems impossible. It usually is faster to simply shutdown the computer via the power button and restart it rather than try to salvage the Windows session.

PowerDVD full Version: 10.0.1705.51
PowerDVD SR Number: DVD100510-04
Operating System: Windows 7 Professional x86 (32bit)
Is your PowerDVD a Retail product or bundles with HW? Retail trial
Used VGA: nVidia GeForce 8200
Used VGA driver version: 185.85
Used Audio device: Onboard Realtek High Definition Audio (not sure chipset)
Used Audio device driver version: 6.0.1.5898
Which kind of display connection: HDMI
Monitor environment: Single Monitor (Samsung LCD HDTV supporting up to 1080p)
Antivirus Software: Kaspersky Internet Security

My next step will be to try to play the DVD outside of WMC, it could be the plugin is experiencing problems.