HD Videa Play Back

[paladin]

I recently purchased a BluRay/ HDDVD burner/drive for my computer and it is having a hard time playing the videos on my 64bit os. The "diagnostic" report that spits out says my gpu and display are not HDCP compatible... but they are. I have two HD 4870's and a 25.5" viewsonic LCD. The program that ame with the drive is CyberLink and Ive heard that they are not the best... Ive looked around and found WinDVD Plus and a couple of others, but I wanted to see if anyone else had a good program for HD playback.

[DaneO'Roo]

Could just be that blue ray sucks.

Finer laser reads more data, but not as quickly.

:)

[Limited]

Is your PC fast enough to handle HD playback though? (Can you run mkv/.h23 files?)

I think you need a certain speed of CPU (that can handle the processing) I might be wrong though.

[Zeph]

Only reason I would think they'd not be reading as HDCP compatible is because of drivers.

[klange]

Is your PC fast enough to handle HD playback though? (Can you run mkv/.h23 files?)

I think you need a certain speed of CPU (that can handle the processing) I might be wrong though.
You don't need much in the ways of CPU speed to play back HD videos - 1.3GHz (single core) will get you by.

[flibitijibibo]

PowerDVD HD is a pretty good program. I'm surprised you didn't get that with the drive. What manufacturer is it from?

Also, check drivers blahblahblah.

EDIT- Just read 64-bit. For some reason, only about 2 or 3 drives are legitimately compatible with 64-bit right now. I still don't know why.

[Jelly]

You could pay (or *ahem* not pay) for CoreAVC. Apparently it's the fastest codec available for playing HD video.

[paladin]

My cpu should be fine, a q6600 @2.83

I thinks its the drivers, i dont think PowerDVD like the HD 4870 drives for 64bit