NGC7088 Posted December 26, 2009 Share Posted December 26, 2009 Hello, I'm new to Blu ray world, I only have one and is "Superman Returns". I have been unable to watch it yet. The only player I have is the blu ray drive on this notebook. My goal for now is simply to watch the movie.If I simply insert it and try to play it I get the message "unformatted disk" or something to that effect, even though Imgburn seems to have no problem detecting it and analyzing it. So I was trying to follow the guide here: http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=137151 But in the end I get the same message from the mounted drive. But I also noticed something strange. I cannot open the ISO created with IMGBURN using 7-zip. Is this an indication that something went wrong creating the ISO or I should expect 7 zip cannot open ISO's created with imgburn? Thanks for any help (directions to better guides, suggestions, answers, anything is welcome!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LIGHTNING UK! Posted December 26, 2009 Share Posted December 26, 2009 Are you running XP? XP cannot read UDF 2.50 (which is what Blu-ray discs use) and I guess that's also the issue with 7-zip. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NGC7088 Posted December 26, 2009 Author Share Posted December 26, 2009 Sorry I should have said more about the system, Its dual core, 4 GB Ram, 64 bit, Windows 7 I beleive I have opened iso's before here with 7 zip, and created with IMGburn too, but not blu ray iso. It could also be a one time freak error, but these thing take such a long time to do I wanted to check before repeating. Could it be anything else? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LIGHTNING UK! Posted December 26, 2009 Share Posted December 26, 2009 I assume you have some blu-ray playback software? PowerDVD, WinDVD, ArcSoft. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NGC7088 Posted December 26, 2009 Author Share Posted December 26, 2009 Powerdvd 8, came with the notebook, it always says "there is and unsupported format in drive D: " or so, even though it downloaded some sort of update the first time the blu ray was inserted, nothing changed. I can explore the disk though, It seems every software in the world sees the disk except the one that's supposed to. But I thought mounting an iso solved the problem for other people so I tried. Does'nt work for me, but then I find there's something abnormal about the iso (I cant explore it with 7 zip) so maybe something went wrong? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LIGHTNING UK! Posted December 26, 2009 Share Posted December 26, 2009 Do you have PowerDVD Ultra? I believe that's the only one that supports Blu-ray playback. Look on the initial screen when it loads up and see if it mentions 'Blu-ray Disc' or anything similar. Assuming everything is working as it should do, you should have no problems exploring an original Blu-ray movie disc via 'Computer' on the start menu - and by that I mean you should be able to see the BDMV folder etc. If your copy of PowerDVD won't play original Blu-ray discs then either it has a problem or it isn't supposed to in the first place. You could try visiting the cyberlink website and getting the latest update for v8 down manually and installing it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NGC7088 Posted December 26, 2009 Author Share Posted December 26, 2009 I can't find anything at Powerdvd site. But I was just checking at the notebook manufacturer site and it seems other people complained of the same problem and are getting mailed an installation cd with the correct version of powerdvd to play blu ray. It seems it's a problem that happens to those who purchased the systems with vista but windows 7 upgrade option, then switched when windows 7 came out, now have a problem getting the correct powerdvd update. There is still something strange about the iso and 7 zip, I created a new one and still "it cannot be opened as an archive...". Any thoughts on that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LIGHTNING UK! Posted December 26, 2009 Share Posted December 26, 2009 PowerDVD updates can be found here: http://www.cyberlink.com/downloads/support/powerdvd/patches_en_US.html Like I said before, 7-zip can't open/browse images that use the UDF 2.50 file system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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