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Thanks for the patch
When I first ran it, something during the install process caused powerdvd to startup before it was finished. I already had a bluray disc in the drive maybe it tried to auto play it? Anyway Im not sure why, but powerdvd did startup before the patch was completed and before I selected the run powerdvd button on the patch finished screen
This resulted in all the UI of powderdvd not looking right and basically being broken
I simply re-ran the patch and this time powerdvd did not auto start and it went through the patch process fine. When I manually selected the run powerdvd button from the patch is finished screen, powerdvd displayed all fine in the UI
However my biggest gripe is that this new build does not fix the absence of video playback on HDMI 2.0 with 3840x2160 on suitable 4K displays and the Nvidia GTX Geforce 960. Your advertising 4K as being part of the feature set of powerdvd 15 and to me atleast, this has got to be the #1 critical issue to fix. Cyberlink support have been truthful and polite in confirming you folk can replicate the problem, and I'm trying to be patient while you folk deal with the technical issues. I will point out however your competitors in the free to use, free to own and free to modify/distrubute world of open source video all works out of the box at no cost with HDMI 2 4K playback. It seems self evident to me if you want to compete, youve got to have a better product than the free open source video players. I'm happy to work with Cyberlink on testing new builds, but its not going to make a good outcome if it takes months on months to get fix candidates to effected users.
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Run something like mediainfo over them to see if theres anything special about the files. MP4-ASP should be fine generally.
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Thanks PJay for your personal message
Ill check out what ya sent me
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Bit of an update on this. Cyberlink responded and I was pretty happy with what they said. One, they were polite, and two, they were honest. They can replicate the problem and they were truthful with saying it might take sometime to get through the complexities of why its occuring, then to come up with a fix build, which needs to be tested and so on.
So having already had the tantrum about the problem existing in premium commercial software, I've gone into the next mode which is waiting for it to be fixed.
In the meantime 4K works with free software, and with the commercial anydvd HD software I can play back blurays just not do the menus.
When it is fixed I can then enjoy full bluray support with menus etcetc.
I just hope it doesnt take months to fix but I will try be patient with it
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I cant imagine Cyberlink ever offering such a product feature. They have to be buddy buddy with the media cartels to demonstrate their trustworthy enough in the eyes of the media cartels to be given bluray playback licenses, to be given decryption keys for decryoting bluray content etcetc
Im sure the media cartels would put Cyberlink through the wringer on compliance tests and so on before they certify it and allow for a licence from them.
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So is anyone else got working 4K playback in Powerdvd 15?
Ive had no response from support 
I tried reinstalling Powerdvd 15 but that didnt fix it
Ive got a theory, since getting my GTX 960, that Powerdvd 15 is trying to use my on die GPU from Intel which I wont do 4k playback. Maybe Powerdvd 15 hasnt been programmed correctly not to use on die craptastic Intel GPUs, but to use the Nvidia GPU chip. Thats assuming that other people do have working 4k playback in powerdvd 15 and it isnt a universal problem that no one can playback at 4k.
It all works using free software via LAV filters and MPC-HC, so my hardware can do it no sweat.
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Thanks again Pjay I think Ive found an internet video expert and a friend in you  Im from Australia, so please forgive my convict english in this sunburnt country 
Pjay do you happen to know why mate 10 bit HW accel is only available on copy back DXVA2? Why not cuvid? Or native?
Also, would you happen to know sir with the open source media title big buck bunny remastered in 4K like here
http://bbb3d.renderfarming.net/
Why that wont play with my setup in full HW accel? It resorts to software decode. I dont want that. Its a 60 FPS 3D video, but its only in H.264 and I thought the GTX 960 did that no sweat with 3d h.264 like 3d bluray?
Cheers
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It most certainly does decode DTS-MA and TrueHD with PCM output
Im not sure about dolby atmos, but then again whats the point of atmos if your not bitsreaming it to a AV receiver and playing it through all your speakers that way
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Its slysoft with AnyDVD HD, that will decrypt bluray content and strip region coding etcetc.
As to if the software is legal or not, this varies by country as in some countries rights to reasonable self use do exist, in other countries circumventing region coding is illegal, along with other things being illegal like defeating AACS and HDCP.
My personal view is that region coding is nothing but market fixation by the content cartels and it limits a persons rights to fair self use. Its especially problematic for international travellers who move around.
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Pjay to report back on your suggestions that I've been experimenting with. I found a major difference between the released x64 LAV and MPC-HC, and the nightly builds of both. So Ive stuck with nightly builds for both x64 LAV and x64 MPC-HC.
I have a video sample that is top end and absolutely kills my 8 logical core i7 CPU. Its 2160P 60 FPS, Main 10 with the 10 bit colour and its level 5.2 on HEVC with some fairly high bitrates.
Using the nightly builds of LAV and MPC-HC, I'm pleased to say even with DXVA 2 copyback I get zero dropped frames or stutter and even have some headroom left in the gpu video engine, the gpu memory controller and so on.
It looks simply stunning on my curved 65" UHD display
Thanks allot for your suggestions now I'm already for 10 bit UHD content on HEVC MAIN 10. I love my GTX 960.
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Yes I can see your right, plain as day that the GM206 chip does do Main 10. Ill experiment with the renderless mode on DXVA 2 copy back within LAV
It kinda makes sense this is an issue for you as Im aware that 2160p60 Main 10 HEVC is part of the Ultra HD Bluray specification. Then everyone will be using 10 bit video in the consumer space.
I wonder if Cyberlinks plan is to flog another product, say powerdvd 16, with amongst other things has a 2160p60 Main 10 HEVC DXVA decoder. Good way to milk the masses I guess, as it's a shame that feature is not in Cyberlink 15.
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Gawd how I hate resorting to support with IT companies...
Over the years Ive probably spent over a thousand bucks US on the various versions of PowerDVD that seem to be released more or less every year
So I sucked up my angst and gave support my dxdiag and my SR build number and all the rest of crap that should Cyberlink have their shwyt together would allready know, and have allready, made sure it all works. Its no suprise that if you run a desktop being 2160p, you expect playback. I have a GTX 960 that does this all in video decoder hardware. No big deal, it should work..........
And the irony is. Cyberlink the so called premier solution with the $$$$ to buy it asking price to join the club, doesnt even work, when the zero zero zero, lets count it, zero zero zero, software like MPC-HC and LAV and ffmpeg do it without failure for lets see, zero zero zero cost
If it werent for the bluray menu support, I'd ditch cyberlink for good. It would be, goodbye, but please go away. The only thing cyberlink does that others do not, is the bluray menus. Im semi tempted given Im a slsyoft HD customer, to just playback the decypted movie and stuff the menu suppprt atleast THAT works
And I tried to ring cyberlink via the phone, theyre out of office hours, so I guess Ill wait another two business days for some cretin from cyberlink to respond to my support update. I just hope it isnt some idiot from India on the support whos going to waste my time with some BS that I allready answered in the oringinal support request. Dam I detest support ques they suck.
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Do you have references you can site about the gtx 960s 10 bit support?
Im not so sure
Using LAV filters/splitters on MPC-HC and the nvidia cuvid, on all 4K 10 bit hevc samples I have there is zero gpu video engine acceleration. Then in DXVA2 native mode the same result.
Im not sure if the gtx 960 video engine can actually hardware decode 10 bit video
So its up too software. And 2160p60 HEVC 10bit is going to send your CPU into hell
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PowerDVD 15 on the current production build results in no video display at all on video playback at my native resolution of 3840x2160. If I reduce it down to 1920x1080 it displays no problems. At 3840x2160, it seems regardless of the video compression type h.264, MPEG2, Divx etetc no display will be shown but the audio still works.
At 3840x2160 all my other pieces of software work fine, the desktop, the free media player classic easily does video at 3840x2160 and will play all files that Cuberlink Powerdvd 15 breaks on.
I wasnt sure if it was something to do with HDCP 2.2 or not, so I looked up my display manual and realised only one of the four HDMI ports supported HDCP 2.2. So I swapped it over but the problem still remains
Then I tried to disable all the powerdvd post processing and just try to see if it will do basic hardware decoding and properly provide a video that way. But no luck, same problem, no video is displayed.
I've reluctantly raised a support ticket on this issue:
Question ID = CS001470643
I just hope it doesnt take forever to get to the higher level of support with the clues to actually write a patch and distribute a fixed build of powerDVD 15. Bit ironic free software video players work fine on first try, the so called premium bluray player with powerdvd is bugged. I hope it doesnt take forver for a new build to appear.
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Gday, so I'm about to order parts for my HTPC upgrade and want to confirm it all.
I'd like to achieve full hardware decoding of H.265 content at 3840x2160 and output via HDMI 2.0 with HDCP 2.2 support. My display can only accept 3840 only via HDMI 2.0. Speaking of which I have no idea how we ended up saying 4K is 3840 when its actually 4160x2160 as 4K!
So by using powerdvd 15, I understand that if I got an Nvidia GTX 960 card, powerdvd 15 has DXVA 2 drivers and all the necessary bits to engage the GPU's H.265 HW decoding at 4K resolutions? I didnt think there was a windows H.265 DXVA 2 driver so I assume Cyberlink package one with PDVD 15?
Is there anything else I need or any cautions with this?
I wonder too if PDVD 15 will work with the new Ultra HD Bluray spec for when the first titles start being sold to that spec
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Hi, I ran the beta for 4028 and I found that PDVD14 still wont close correctly on normal user exits. I have to use task manager to terminate the pdvd 14 exe to get new instances to run, or to play new videos
I understand the compile for 4028 was the same from beta to the production release
So whats going on? How can I get this root cause fixed properly?
Thanks
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Thanks for letting me know. Please consider enhanced windows media centre functionality for future versions.
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Gday
I'mm evaluating the trial currently for revision 11.
How do I tell powerdvd 11 to use its own matroska demuxer in WMC? I use WMC and dont want to use the powerdvd 11 menus for playback.
Powerdvd can play the MKV files in its own interface but I want to use WMC. I have done the registry edit to enable WMC to see MKV files, but when I try to play them it wont.
Thanks
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1. RAM detection is wrong. Detects 4096 I have 12 GB
2. Claims I have no dual video H.264, VC-1 and MPEG-2 GPU acceleration when I in fact have three GTX 480s in SLI where each one of the GTX 480s AFAIK accelerates these codecs
3. Says my GTX 480 are unknown
4. Says my dual XEON E5630s are unknown
5. The code for the HDCP is kinda simple in that it wont see if a HDCP defeat mechanism is in place like AnyDVD HD. You dont need HDCP to play back all content, only protected content that hasnt been defeated
Then if I go the 3d advisor I also get:
5. My samsung syncmaster 120HZ 3D ready LCD display isnt shown as being 3d capable when it is
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Hi folks,
I've had many problems with Power DVD 10 Ultra Mark II. After going through unhelpful support I gave up on this software and I've recently come back in the hopes its more useful now. The Cyberlink GUI for patches kept saying that there wasnt one, but now I have found build v2323 online and patched it. Some of the defects in the software are fixed, good! Thats a major problem that the software patch routines are bugged in the GUI cos it creates false user impressions about running the latest production build.
My main issue now is that deinterlacing does not occur. I have some simple AVI test files in bottom field first and top field first interlaced encoding, and regardless of what I try to set PowerDVD too, it doesnt actually deinterlace. I have other content, like MPEG 2 interlaced that isnt filtered either.
Ive set it to "always perform deinterlacing" and "advanced pixel adaptive" - it doesnt work
Months ago the support people claimed they would send it to higher levels for action, I'm hoping this will be fixed.
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