Blu Ray not quite playing properly

[AceCobra1]

I installed PowerDVD 7.3 with the 2911 patch update but when I tried to play Casino Royale blu ray, it basically plays the featurets and also trailers but when I try to play the movie, it doesn't work - any ideas?

[AceCobra1]

lol... error 403 and i use windows xp and no vista lol

This is the one i tried Download101.19

But it never installed saying that it isn't the right card or something

[MattWilson]

lol... error 403 and i use windows xp and no vista lol

This is the one i tried Download101.19

But it never installed saying that it isn't the right card or something

Here is the XP version and here is the INF file.

Follow the instructions again as they should be the same. (You could try running the setup exe instead of the device manager bit when you get to that point)

[AceCobra1]

lol... that was the one i already downloaded! 😞 Not working... but then it could well be the inf thingy... What configuration should I write? the only thing I selected was 101.19 driver version... not sure what the rest should be... I also had a look in notepad regarding the driver details but i noticed that 7600 go GT isn't listed I wonder why sony uses crap graphics card like these in thier supposingly desktop replacement systems

[MattWilson]

That is why you extract the EXE to a folder and then replace the inf file with the one you download. Then inside the folder (that it was extracted to) run the exe.

[AceCobra1]

thats weird... i did that, installed fine but after i restarted, i couldn't boot in as the graphics was obviously not right and needed to revert to previous good settings... then now when i open some programs that needs dos, it says that command promt have been disabled by admin when I am admin lol... any ideas??

[kee-lo_]

The main problem is that the graphics card isn't doing the hardware decoding for H264 encoded movies like Casino Royale.

[AceCobra1]

so does that mean taht it will never work properly ?

[budgetmil]

Hi,

For your information, Casino Royale plays smoothly with the following configuration :
- Core 2 Duo at 2Ghz
- 2 GB of RAM
- Geforce Go 7600GT with Nvidia drivers 158.24 (for Vista)
- Nothing nothing nothing running in the background

With this configuration, the CPU is used always between 80 and 100% but the movie plays smoothly. But if you do something else, even something very simple like adjusting the volume, the movie hangs on...

I am afraid that the manufacturers lie about the power required to play blu-ray movies. It is true that you can play VC-1 or MPEG-2 encoded movies on most of the recent machines, but H264 encoded movies require a really very powerful machine : a very very powerful processor and/or one of the most recent graphic cards with H264 acceleration (which is not the case of the 7600 GT).

[kee-lo_]

so does that mean taht it will never work properly ?

No, not necessarily, it's mainly due to bad drivers as the computer is able to do it with the right hardware control.

[AceCobra1]

is that the t7200 u mean?