But I think it would be unreasonable, suddenly to enforce Bus Encryption, between an internal Blu-ray drive, and your PC! Mind you, due to the wonders of UEFI, Microsoft could have fed a firmware update through to your Blu-ray drive during the past several weeks. There should really have been no (relevant) software changes since then. The last Service Pack from Corel, was SP8, and came out on the 28 of April, 2021. The only other, hypothetical explanation I could think of, would be, that WinDVD supports Bus Encryption in principle, but, that version Pro / 12 only has a short list of Device Certificates bundled-in, which exclude the one used by Pioneer. So it would seem that this explanation will also Fail to solve the problem, at least until WinDVD 13 or something is released. This is a DRM feature which additionally protects the stream as it's being sent from the drive to the PC. According to one competitor's Web-site, WinDVD is not able to communicate with drives that use bus encryption. My external Blu-ray burner uses "Bus Encryption" when instructed to play back an AACS-protected Video Disk. And with RTSS enabled, but the check-box within WinDVD unchecked to display OSDs, the player still plays DVDs just fine, and does so without OSD.īTW, I can play the BD just fine using 'VLC'. With RTSS disabled globally, it displays its OSD nowhere. But, I only obtained completely unchanged results. To try to rule that out as the culprit, I disabled RTSS at both ends, and tried again to play a BD with WinDVD again. I happen to have the 'Riva Tuner Statistics Server' installed (from a different software company), which will produce OSD information in many GPU-accelerated apps, whether those apps asked for it or not. One of its threads seems to abort as it's populating the screen with widgets that are supposed to display in-screen. What this did was, to illustrate to me with greater clarity, where in the startup the media player app hangs. Just to gather more information, I changed a setting within WinDVD, to 'Start from Full-Screen Mode'. When that option is clicked, the WinDVD window opens again, but its behaviour is unchanged.īecause when, in this state, the bottom bar of icons doesn't work, I also cannot tell WinDVD explicitly, which drive to play. The context menu of the WinZip drive did not have a Play action, while the (much longer) context menu of the real drive had an option at the top, to 'Play with WinDVD'. The way I did that was, to navigate to the drives in the Windows File Explorer, and then to compare the context menus of the two extra drives. I did investigate the possibility, that specifically when trying to play BDs, WinDVD might be mistaking the virtual WinZip Burn Drive for the drive that actually contains the Blu-ray. Is there a tip which somebody can come up with, that would be easy for me to follow, and which I did not yet think of? This is a form of DRM which the application requires, and which nVidia's drivers say is working. But, the nVidia Control Panel makes that an easy thing to do, and the result is, that HDCP is Enabled. Now, one idea which I did have, was to inspect the HDCP capabilities of my monitor and the GC's connection to it. I can dismiss the WinZip widget, but the software causes a virtual, WinZip Burn Drive to remain, which does not interfere with WinDVD's ability to find actual DVDs in the correct drive. I can use the bundled 'WinZip Secure Burn' app (also from Corel) to open the Blu-ray drive's folders (when the disk is inserted), to be viewed in the Windows File Explorer. When full-screen, the application's appearance is just black (even if I try the Space Bar). I can make the window full-screen, and then use the Escape Key to restore it to the usual size again. The icons along the top, which control application settings, still work, but the icons along the bottom bar, from where playback is normally controlled, do not work. When the application detects that a Blu-ray disk has been inserted, most of its UI window becomes unresponsive. I've just recently upgraded my WinDVD to Pro, v12.ĭVDs play just fine, but Blu-rays fail to do so. Pioneer BDR-XD05B USB3-connected Blu-ray burner with Bus Encryption. HDMI cable directly to an ASUS BE279QSK 1920x1080 monitor (27") I have a Windows 10 Pro PC (64-bit), with a Comet Lake, Intel processor, and with 16GB of RAM. But firstly, none of the other threads in this forum found answers which I could use, and secondly, there is always the possibility that I could be overlooking something small and simple, which could solve all my problems, and which somebody on this forum might know about. I know that the subject-line sounds very familiar.
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