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Trouble playing Blu Ray through BD Drive
I don’t have a BluRay player but I do have a BD Rom Drive and bought my first Blu Ray disc yesterday for it.
It’s a live concert disc that I wanted in Blu Ray for my computer as it’s connected up to my Logitech Z5500 Surround Sound speakers. I put the Blu Ray disc in last night and it loaded the menu without a problem, and started playing, but in the 4th song it began to pixelate and stick, and stopped playing altogether. (This was with Cyberlink PowerDVD 14). In ‘My Computer’ it then didn’t recognise that there was anything in the BD Drive and wouldn’t even load the menu, but the disc is brand new and has no marks on it at all. Unfortunately I don’t have another BR player or any discs to check in the drive, but I checked a normal disc and it was recognising that fine. I ran Registry Mechanic and shut it down, and tried again this morning. It recognised the disc without a problem and got through the whole song that was a problem yesterday, but it did pixelate and skip a little bit but managed to get through the song. I just don’t know if it’s the disc or if my computer isn’t powerful enough to play it or if there is better software to play it easier, but I have a very good computer and a full HD Monitor. My specs are: Windows 7 Ultimate Intel(R) Core i7-2600k CPU @ 3.40GHz RAM: 8GB Direct X 11 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Graphics Card I do want to play it through my BD Rom as it’s connected to my speakers and it’s a concert DVD with Dolby 5.1 Any help would be appreciated |
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By "normal" disk do you mean a DVD or a CD? The player will have separate lasers for each format of disk (though it may look like there is only one laser assembly). So if there is a problem with the Blu-Ray laser it won't necessarily affect playing DVDs or CDs.
Without either a second disk or an alternative player it is difficult to determine whether the disk or the player is the cause. If you get problems at more or less the same point on the disk every time it is played that may indicate a disk problem. It doesn't take much to disrupt the laser, a scratch in the wrong place can throw it momentarily. Or it could even be a fault in the reflective part of the disk. But ideally you need to play the disk in another player. If it shows a fault at the same place then it is likely to be the disk. Similarly if another Blu-Ray played in your PC has problems at a similar point in playback then it might be your PC or disk drive. I wouldn't have thought an i7 PC would lack the necessary grunt to play a Blu-Ray properly. |
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Thanks for your reply.
By normal disk I did mean a normal DVD yes. I didn't play it but the computer recognised it when it stopped recognising the other Blu Ray, but like I said it recognised it again this morning. It was very bizarre. It played up at a specific point last night early on in the disk but this morning it did it again, but not as badly, and in a different part of the song. What you said makes sense - I'd have to do that to find out the cause of the problem. |
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Use a Blu-ray disc ripper such as AnyDVD HD to copy the disc to your PC hard drive. Play the disc back from there. If there's a physical issue with the disc, the ripping process will fail.
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Use a Blu-ray disc ripper such as AnyDVD HD to copy the disc to your PC hard drive. Play the disc back from there. If there's a physical issue with the disc, the ripping process will fail.
Will this rip the entire DVD (menus and such?) because I want to select the correct audio of 5.1 from the settings before listening/watching |
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Thank you.
Will this rip the entire DVD (menus and such?) because I want to select the correct audio of 5.1 from the settings before listening/watching |
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Thank you.
Will this rip the entire DVD (menus and such?) because I want to select the correct audio of 5.1 from the settings before listening/watching If the rip works without problem and the playback of the ripped file is OK then there must be something odd going on. Bearing in mind the drive uses the same laser to do the ripping as it does to play the disk you would think a laser problem would affect both actions. As would any mechanical problem with the drive. |
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If the rip works without problem and the playback of the ripped file is OK then there must be something odd going on. Bearing in mind the drive uses the same laser to do the ripping as it does to play the disk you would think a laser problem would affect both actions. As would any mechanical problem with the drive.
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But if it's the same lasers does that mean it will still be impossible to tell which is the problem? If the playback is bad I still won't know if it's the disk or the BD Rom?
Ideally you need an alternative player and disk to check out whether it is the disk or the drive at fault. |
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Well I tried it on a different player and the disc worked fine.
But the BD Rom Drive is still not recognising I've put it in the slot but it recognises other DVD's that aren't Blu Rays so I'm confused. |
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Well I tried it on a different player and the disc worked fine.
But the BD Rom Drive is still not recognising I've put it in the slot but it recognises other DVD's that aren't Blu Rays so I'm confused. As I posted earlier optical drives use separate lasers for each type of disk. So if the Blu-Ray laser is duff it won't prevent the drive reading DVDs or CDs. The drive will try each laser in turn to read the disk. Only the laser appropriate to the disk type can focus on the data contained on the disk so neither the CD or DVD lasers will read a Blu-Ray and if there is a problem with the Blu-Ray laser the drive will fail to read the disk completely. You could try updating the drivers for the drive to see if that fixes the problem. Which might work if it is software rather than hardware causing the problem. It is also possible there is some gunge on the laser assembly which is only troubling the Blu-Ray laser and the DVD and CD lasers manage to break through OKish. So cleaning the laser lens may be worth trying. Ideally by gently rubing the lens with a cotton bud lightly dampened with something like isopropyl alcohol (can be got from places like Maplin). If that isn't an option try a lens cleaning disk (can be CD, DVD or Blu-Ray - they are all pretty much identical anyway whatever it says on the box. If that doesn't work then it might need a replacement of the drive to fix the problem. By the way there are no DVDs that are Blu-Rays. They are two separate disk formats that just happen to be visually very similar.
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