Ok, I've tried searching, but I have found only bits and pieces of what I'm having problems with. I just bought TMNT HD DVD since my son just loved the movie and he's asking for it constantly so I ripped it to the hard drive using anydvdhd. In any case, each time I mount the ISO using daemon tools and try to play it in powerdvd, it's just a blank screen. That's all I get, but when I put in the disc, it works great. I beleive I have the latest version of Power DVD so I'm not sure what to do. I even went so far as to hooking up the 360 HD DVD drive to another PC to see if that would work, but still the same issue. Any suggestions for a newb? Thanks, rob
What are your computer specs? Processor,Video card,os, etc.? It wouldn't work with my old computer either until I upgraded. All I would get out of my Athlon64 3200+/Geforce 6800 was the HD dvd menu. When I tried to play the movie it would studder real bad and lockup.
Cyberlink has a widget that will analyze your system for HD playback suitability. AnyDVD HD only overcomes the HDCP HD protection. http://www.cyberlink.com/multi/support/bdhd_support/diagnosis.jsp
I'm sure my pc specs are not to blame I'm running intel core 2 duo E6700 4 GBRAM 500 GB HD Nvidia 8500 video card It works fine with the actual HD DVD in the drive. Whenever I mount the image Powerdvd ask me to update and when I click yes. it does nothing.
Will PowerDVD play the title if ripped as files? Have you tried mounting with any other virtual mounting software? Have you tried ripping it with DVDFab HD Decrypter (free)? If you used the AnyDVDHD ripper didn't you end up with a folder of DVD files and not an ISO? If so, what did you use to build the ISO image file? Otherwise, what did you use to actually do the ripping?
To the best of my knowledge, this would be transparent to powerdvd as all it would see is an image. I used anydvd to decrypt and i used isobuster to rip to iso. I have not tried dvdfab. Is this what people generally use?
There are a variety of ways that work. I know that PowerDVD plays directly from files so that's why I wondered what you used to get your ISO. I don't know if it's Daemon Tools causing the problem, whether the ISO is missing something as created by ISOBuster, or whether PowerDVD has a problem reading the ISO as virtually mounted. There are some titles that one or the other program will have problems with so that's why most people keep an arsenal at hand. - You could try a different virtual mounter. - You could try ripping as files with AnyDVDHD ripper or DVDFab HD Decrypter. I'm doing some experimenting myself but as you know working with HD DVD takes a long time to process. Edit: text added below I've used ISO Recorder (free) to rip ISO files from my DVD HDs. Daemon Tools mounts them and PowerDVD plays them just fine. PowerDVD also plays them back OK or at least some of them from ripped files with AnyDVD HD. PowerDVD has its own share of problems. I can't get it to play back Transformers worth a darn. It'll playback from the 360 HD DVD drive halfway decent, but is poor at playing back from files or ripped ISO. I have an Athlon 64 4200+ and 2600xt running on Vista with PDVD Ultra 7.3 Build 3119a.
