HD-DVD player for Windows Vista?

[2E1 BZU]

Hello

Anyone know of a HD-DVD software player for a Windows Vista PC? I have Cyberlink, and that plays my Blu Ray disks but Cyberlink crashes when I try and play HD-DVD disks. As far as I am aware, Cyberlink in new versions don't support HD-DVD anymore as well.

Does anyone know any software that will play them?

Thanks

 

[Justin]

i use this and find it very good

http://www.arcsoft.com/estore/totalmedia_theatre_comparison.asp?productCode=TMT5P#submenu

 

[BrooksterMax]

Unfortunately Cyberlink stopped HD DVD support from 7.3 onwards. Go with the above

 

[2E1 BZU]

i use this and find it very good

http://www.arcsoft.com/estore/totalmedia_theatre_comparison.asp?productCode=TMT5P#submenu

Wow! thanks mate!

It's amazing, I have been searching in Google for HD-DVD software for Vista and all that comes up is a load of old tripe! This software never came up!

Going to download the trial version and fingers crossed....



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Unfortunately Cyberlink stopped HD DVD support from 7.3 onwards. Go with the above

yea, been reading in to this and it seems I am not the only one with the problem. Cyberlink have taken a BIG step back in my opinion.

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Not playing ball :-(

I put the HD-DVD in the drive, it spins up. I load the trial version of TotalMedia and click the play button and all I get is a frozen black window where the software was. I do get to see a screen shot of the disk in the program though so it's reading it, but just does not play.

 

[Tomse]

Try VLC player

http://www.videolan.org/

free open source player that plays most formats.
I haven't tried HD/Blu-Ray as I don't have a drive.. but it hasn't failed me so far

 

[2E1 BZU]

Try VLC player

http://www.videolan.org/

free open source player that plays most formats.
I haven't tried HD/Blu-Ray as I don't have a drive.. but it hasn't failed me so far

Hi Tomse, already tried that, no luck. It's just strange, I can play Blu Ray disks alright. The drive is HDDVD compliant.

 

[Witcher1979]

Sorry but wont happen. M$ dropped all support when they lost the battle, I had all this with win 7 and the xbox hd-dvd player. Best way is to install makemkv, then rip the movie to HDD. Anything will then play the mkv.

This is all down to m$ being sore losers.

 

[2E1 BZU]

Sorry but wont happen. M$ dropped all support when they lost the battle, I had all this with win 7 and the xbox hd-dvd player. Best way is to install makemkv, then rip the movie to HDD. Anything will then play the mkv.

This is all down to m$ being sore losers.

M$ sucks!

I think I will just buy the movie on Blu Ray.

Love the digital age.

 

[Witcher1979]

All the older players that did support it were all beta. Half do not work, finding older versions is also a bit of a pain. makemkv will only take about 20 mins to make the mkv and its free. Then you are good to go, I ripped loads when I had the xbox player.

Cheers

 

[2E1 BZU]

All the older players that did support it were all beta. Half do not work, finding older versions is also a bit of a pain. makemkv will only take about 20 mins to make the mkv and its free. Then you are good to go, I ripped loads when I had the xbox player.

Cheers

Would that do my presumably copy protected HDDVD then?

 

[Witcher1979]

Hey man

Well mine were all originals so they must have had protection to. Ripped every single one so it should be fine. Give it ago, its a free program so wont cost you anything to try it out sir.

 

[2E1 BZU]

Hey man

Well mine were all originals so they must have had protection to. Ripped every single one so it should be fine. Give it ago, its a free program so wont cost you anything to try it out sir.

Thanks for the pointer, I will give that a go. It's a bit of a learning curve this, my good friend lent me this HDDVD to watch, and was really looking forward to seeing it. But this is the first time I have tried an HDDVD, and for it not to work, when for the last two years I thought I had a system that would play them is just a little gutting. Luckly, the 'biggy' HD stuff I have bought have been on Blu Ray anyway so if I had paid for this film I would have been out of pocket! Still, in the interest of not wanting to be beaten, I will press ahead and try the MakeMKV program. But will end up buying the Blu Ray version anyway as it's dead cheap at the moment

 

[2E1 BZU]

Well, downloaded and installed MakeMKV, and it worked like a charm!

Yes the file is 18GB but at least I can now watch the movie. Can't belive what you have to go through just to watch something.

Cheers Jimbo

 

[Witcher1979]

Hi m8

No worries, glad I could help. I went through all this myself a couple of months back. It just seems the easiest way without buying other software, big size as it does not lose any quality. Least now it is on your HDD it is ready to also stream around the house if needed.

What makes me laugh, xbox HD-DVD player, win 7 plug and play is awesome, just a shame you can't actually play anything without jumping through hoops lol.

Glad you got it working m8