Issues playing Blu-Ray on Intel G31 Graphics

Hi All,

New here so please be kind. I have an Acer Aspire L3600 small form factor PC. It has a Core-2-Duo E4500 cpu and the Intel G31/G33 series VGA. It's running Vista Home Premium and 2GB DDR2. It had a standard DVD super multi burner slot loader [from a laptop]. I have fitted a Matsushita/Panasonic UJ-225 Super-Multi BD reader and Writer. As the drive was a bare drive from eBay it didn't come with any software.
I downloaded a trial of both WinDVD2010 and PowerDVD 9. Neither would play a BD. WinDVD would just freeze and do nothing. PowerDVD told me the VGA card was not supported and directed me to download the BD adviser tool. I did this and it passed [enough to play basic video but not the advanced picture in picture stuff].
I then downloaded an older version of P-DVD [ver 7.3] and it would just give an error that said "undefined error" [this was after it prompted me to update the software]. I then updated my VGA drivers as they were well out of date. After that P-DVD 7.3 started telling me the VGA was unsupported.
After further reading I thought i'd give ArcSoft TMT a try and it says the same thing. VGA not supported.
The only thing I could get to work was BSPlayer by opening the .m2ts files. Even VLC wouldn't do it. But I just watched Wolverine using BSPlayer and it was fine. So the card is obviously capable of playing the video. Is there a way to force P-DVD, W-DVD or TMT to play? or is there an alternative?

Sorry for the long post.

Cheers,

Joe

 

Bump!!

Anyone? is there a way to stop PowerDVD from checking hardware before playing? surely there is registry edit/hack that can be done?

Cheers,

Joe

 

Daily bump....... I emailed Cyberlink but not holding my breath for that response.

 

through vga there is no point whatsoever anyways... you should just stick with buying dvds until you have a suitable setup...

 

I tried using the VGA/d-sub connection and DVI with a HDMI adapter. No good on either. However I can play the .m2ts files on BSPlayer and ArcSoft TMT but can't play in the traditional way through DVD menu etc. Just won't load the menu.
Also today I got a reply from Cyberlink.... they want some log files submitted etc. Will do this tonight.

 

For anyone who has this issue I found a fix. I couldn't get PDVD7.3 working but with PDVD9 if you untick the box in the advanced field of the bdrom tab in configuration to stop pdvd disabling Aero it then doesn't talk to the VGA controller and just works with no issues. Also PDVD9 is better because it integrates with Windows Media Centre so I can do everything from my remote.
Hope this helps someone.