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Do you notice a difference between "Full dynamic" and "Compressed"?
Depends on the disc, and the audio track. On some films, no not a lot of difference. But in films where there is a wide difference between the quiet moments and the louder, more percussive ones, then yes, I think the difference is very noticeable.
But it's probably subjective. I've never had to become accustomed to equalized sound, so I haven't. I'm like that with MP3s as well - I don't go near ReplayGain. Personal taste, I guess.
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Hi bkrieger,
Are you sure the video file actually has the audio in DTS-HD or TrueHD formats? Even from a Blu-ray, most rips have downsampled audio, whereas an .ISO just copies the data from the disc as-is.
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Hiya Bogdan,
Similar setup here -- PDVD 14 and 2.1 speakers.
I'm lucky, because I have a stand-alone house, so I don't have to compress the audio. I much prefer the sound of the full dynamic range. Otherwise, I have the same settings as you.
I actually prefer the sound and dimensional effect of the Dolby Virtual Speaker process, but I find it has problems with the audio from a lot of Blu-ray discs. On vintage movies, if the audio is coded as centre-channel Mono, then often the Dolby VS simply goes silent; or if it's basic mono matrixed as two-channel, it might only play out of one speaker. So I tend to stick with the TrueTheatre, which seems to have fewer problems.
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Huh. Has *no-one* else seen this problem?
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Huh. So I tried uninstalling the latest AMD driver and its "Catalyst" suite of supplementary software, and let Windows put in a more generic driver for the graphics card. Now PowerDVD won't even launch. All I get is the error in the attached screen capture image.
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Hi folks,
I've been a happy chappy with PDVD 14 Ultimate on my Windows 7 x64 system, but suddenly I get an error on every BD disc I try to play (image attached).
It has been working fine, with no problems, until just a week or so ago. I've changed nothing in my system, though the problem *may* have begun at the time of the last Update Tuesday from Microsoft (i.e. could a Windows patch be responsible for the rise of the problem? I'm uncertain).
Even though the error message mentions PowerDVD, I suspect the problem is actually with my graphics card driver or the way it interacts with Windows. I've asked tech support at the GPU manufacturer's website, but the reply was so general and inspecific it really wasn't very helpful. I've asked for more details, but in the meantime I thought I'd ask here in case anyone had come across this issue before.
CPU = Intel i5 3.2 GHz, with 8 GB RAM
OS = Windows 7 x64
GPU = Radeon HD 5700, driver 14.501.1003
Display = Samsung SyncMaster EX2220 through DVI
Software = Cyberlink PowerDVD 14.0.4704.58 Ultra
No modifications or hacks to any of the software, no splitters on cables, and nothing pirated. The GPU card is still supported, and the driver is recent (Nov 2014). The discs are the same region as the BD region setting in PowerDVD. As I said, it's all been working fine until very recently.
Cyberlink's BD Advisor gives the same info: everything else gets a Pass, but the graphics card/display Fails because it doesn't support HDCP. (It used to!) No further info is available.
I'd really appreciate any ideas on this. Thanks!
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Any others seeing this?
I don't believe it's a faulty disc, since it plays fine in Nero 12's Blu-ray Player on the same PC. Both discs in the same set have a problem of a frequent but intermittent shudder in the video, which makes the discs (both) unwatchable in PDVD..
I'd appreciate hearing any comments.
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Thanks for the reply, stevek. And helpful question.
There's nothing major going on at the moment. A couple of little oddities — such as not being able to play a second disc after I've just finished playing one; the main screen of PDVD will update with the name of the new disc, but then when I click on the Play button I get an error saying "no disc in the drive" (but you just updated your own display with the *name* of the disc, so you must have read it!) If I exit PDVD, and then relaunch it, then it recognises the disc and will play it. So no biggie, just a thing that makes you go hmm ...
But I think my OS (Win 7 x64) is getting a bit tired and ragged, and that isn't helping; I'm planning to reformat my main drive and re-install it, and that in fact is why I went looking at the updates, to check I had the most recent at hand before I do the re-installation.
So I was just wondering then how it is the latest update doesn't seem to be listed. But no dramas; after I re-install, if the software doesn't update internally, I'll come back here looking for help! ;
As I said, thanks for the reply.
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Thanks for that, Jeff.
I did look at all the brochures and promo pages before I posted — lists often don't mean much to me, written as they generally are in marketingspeak, and what does "improved" really mean in terms of subjective experience? — So I was just wondering if there was any noticeable improvement in the performance aspects of the software with the new version. I take it from your reply that the answer is "no". :
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Hi folks,
I have PDVD 13 Ultra. I came to the website tonight to check if any updates exist, but the list doesn't appear to be current. The most recent update listed says it takes the software to increment 4303, but I'm already running version 13.0.4324.58, which I think came internally through an update notification in the software itself.
But I've noticed in the past that the software has told me there were no updates available, yet when I've come to the website there was an update listed. So I'm not sure either avenue is strictly reliable.
So: for PDVD 13 Ultra, is 4324 the most recent modification available, or is there something more recent?
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I'd appreciate advice. I'm curious about version 14, and trying to assess whether there is any reason for me to upgrade from PDVD Ultra 13.
I'm not aware of any features missing from v13 that I personally would use — I have no need myself for the mobile or media management capabilities — so I don't think I need v14, but I don't want to be too hasty about it. I use v13 mostly to play BDs on my computer, so I have no immediate need for support for the new media formats either.
But is there anything I've missed? I'd be grateful for opinions, especially if there are improvements in the performance of existing features that I really should take note of.
Thanks for any thoughts.
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I'm having the same issue in PDVD 13 Ultra, so it doesn't seem to have been fixed yet. (I don't have PDVD14 to try.) I'm using DVDFab Passkey to kill BD-Live and region locking.
If I play three or four Blu-ray discs back to back, the CPU usage winds up to 100% and doesn't drop again even if I close PDVD. The only thing that resolves it is a reboot, but when the CPU usage has topped out it takes more than five minutes just for the PC to shut down.
The problem may not be coming from PDVD as such, but shouldn't it be possible for Cyberlink to do something to resolve this issue?
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Already selected.
It used to auto-play fine. Two updates back seems to have broken it, but a removal and re-installation doesn't help.
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In PDVD 13 Ultra (v.3919), if I load a Blu-ray disc, then PDVD recognises it, and updates the display to show me the disc's name and a large play button, but it doesn't start auto-playing.
Is there a way to resolve this?
In Preferences / General / Auto-Play settings, I have "Prompt Before Playback Resumes" selected, but I get no prompt. Even if I set this to "Always Play Movies from the Beginning", PDVD doesn't start playing automatically.
PDVD recognises the disc correctly, or it wouldn't display the disc's name. So how do I get it to start playing?
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Hi Michael,
I'm posting here to flag my interest in this issue, as I also experience it (with PDVD 13 Ultra, version 3919).
It may be that in the mastering of some discs there is a genuine difference in encoded volume level between the DTS-HD MA/True-HD tracks and the LPCM track, but the pattern is too consistent to assume it's solely disc-dependent.
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Hi Michael.
I've never enabled it in the first place. My multimedia are on discs, so I really don't need my HDDs indexed.
I appreciate your help.
Tech support asked me to reinstall (I already had, and had said so in my original incident report, but they asked me to do it again), and they gave me a link and password to download the executable from anew. The password doesn't work, which I logged in an updated incident report, but I haven't heard anything more from them.
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Hi Michael,
Any update on this please?
I PMd you the information you requested, but haven't heard back from you. Tech support has asked me to reinstall, but hasn't offered anything like a solution.
How do I progress this please?
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Umm, nothing's sorted out. The problem is with disks in a physical drive, not indexed video files on the system.
I haven't heard anything from your contacts who wanted to troubleshoot this, Michael.
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Hi,
ok, lets try to find the necessary reproduct steps in order to enable our QA to reproduce teh issue - as you might understand, without beeing able to reproduce the issue nobody will be able to find the possible root cause.
Please try the following:
1. make IE your Default browser, reboot and try - any Change?
2. temproarily disable the AV (you may disconnect PC from Internet) > any Change?
3. you provide dump file log:
http://www.cyberlink.com/support/faq-content.do?id=14591
thx
Michael
Hi Michael,
Thanks for this reply. I apologise that I forgot to answer your questions.
1) I had to install and activate IE to do this, but no, it made no difference.
2) I disabled my Av software (Bitstream Internet Security 2013), and also the firewall component, but it made no difference. The firewall is aware of PDVD, and allows it full access.
3) I created Dump files for both PowerDVD.exe and PowerDVD13.exe, but I haven't attached them here, because they are simply too big. PowerDVD.DMP is 95 MB, and PowerDVD13.DMP is 292 MB. I tried opening them in Notepad to see what they contain, but they made Notepad hang.
What should I do now?
Cyberlink tech support's suggestions were to cut my display settings down to below native HD resolution (which is also below the native resolution of the screen), and kill everything that's in Windows Startup in the Registry. (There's almost nothing there as it is.) Neither of these resolves the problem, and none of it is practical for ongoing use, so that doesn't help. (I also fail to see what any of this has to do with PowerDVD not closing its own processes on shut-down.)
So. I'd be grateful for your help, Michael. What's next?
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After several days, I've received a typically useless response from tech support.
Their solution? Look for graphic driver updates (though I've already told them there aren't any), kill my AV software (and then what?!), kill anything that autostarts at Windows boot (and then what?!), make sure I never have anything else running when I run PDVD.
How does that make any real-world sense?
Buck passed. Again.
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Thanks for the link, kokap.
I never used PDVD12, I *bought* it, but it had problems on my system and tech support were no help, so I went back to version 11 until version 13 came along.
I've logged an issue with tech support. I'll see if I get any kind of a useful answer.
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