XP Pro 64-bit and Blu-Ray

[willn333]

Hey guys I just installed Windows XP Pro x64 Edition and now I am having problems reading a blu-ray disc. What is wierd is that it will play the disc through Cyberlink PowerDVD v 7.3, but will not read the disc in windows, so I cannot decrypt it. I was thinking it was something about the UDF filesystem. Anyone have any ideas?

[willn333]

So 86 views and noone has any ideas?

[KenD00]

Well, you are a quite new user here, maybe you want to take a look at the forum rules if you haven't already. There you should take a closer look at point 12. And if that doesn't help, point 1a is also a good one.
Especially 1a would probably lead to the answer that Windows XP can't read the UDF 2.5 file system of HD/BD media and needs a special UDF driver, like the Toshiba one mentioned in a thread which is still on the first page of this subforum. However, it looks like this driver is only for 32 bit and its possible that you already tried this one and it didn't work and just forgot to give this piece of information. In that case rule 1a wouldn't help you because if i remember correctly no one else on this forum tried to read BD on XP 64.

:rolleyes:

[clsid]

You can copy UDF 2.x discs to harddrive with this tool:
http://www.cdroller.com/

Works with DVDs, I don't know if it works with BD too.

[willn333]

KenD, I wouldn't have thought that the forum rules would have contained information such as this. Thank you for pointing that out. Yes, I did try the HD DVD toshiba driver and it did not work on the 64-bit version of XP. I guess my other option is to run a VM of Vista 32bit just to decrypt blu ray and hd dvd. What do you think about this way?

[KenD00]

The driver situation for WXP 64 bit is quite worse, if you really need 64 bit i think Vista is the better way (although i'm convinced that Vista is EVIL). Before switching the OS you can try if InCD or another Packet Writing software comes with an UDF driver that supports UDF 2.5. And you may try the 64 bit Panasonic Driver from this (http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fde.wikibooks.org%2Fwiki%2FDVD-RAM%2F_Weblinks%23Microsoft_Windows&langpair=de%7Cen&hl=en&ie=UTF8) page, maybe it works for you.

:rolleyes:

[stormlord]

Windows xp 64 bit is basically a workstation/client version of windows 2003 server X86 64. Driversupport is quite terrible, and neglected by most manufacturers...

[legoman666]

Windows xp 64 bit is basically a workstation/client version of windows 2003 server X86 64. Driversupport is quite terrible, and neglected by most manufacturers...

funny how you call it "quite terrible" and yet I've been using it for aout 3 years and have never had a problem finding a single driver.

[Blue_MiSfit]

Consider yourself lucky :)

[wnmnkh]

For me, the driver issues were the biggest problem for using 64bit XP. (I still have installation CD, but used only twice)

[stormlord]

Legoman66,

I've used xp 64 bit too for a long time, but many drivers aren't optimized at all and lack speed + functionality compared to the win 32 bit version. As with Vista x86-64 bit, not all hardware is supported or is certainly not supported from the get go and if they add support - the question is "how", eventhough the cards for Vista will be better - as it seems most hardware manufacturers actually waited for vista to start development for 64 bit OS...

[willn333]

I have since switched back to XP Pro 32 bit and my PC has ran 1,000 times better. I no longer get BSODs or any kind of reboots. I just think like you guys say, the 64 bit OSes are just not supported mainstream quite like they should be. Things don't run right.

[legoman666]

say what you will, but my machine that is running x64 has an uptime of 19 days. I use it heavily every day. The last time I turned it off was to add a little bit of water to the water cooling loop.

[stormlord]

Legoman666,

19 days is not exactly anything to brag about (my server in a datacenter has been running linux without reboot for a much longer time). Besides, that doesn't tell anything about drivers being properly optimized or having the same functionality level 32 bit windows xp drivers have. I've run xp 64 bit over a year too, I decided to revert back to 32 bit windows when nvidia's 680i chipset & 8800 drivers were causing trouble.. Are you running dual monitor at 2560x1600 + 1920x1080i ?

Just to say not everybody's hardware is identical and not everybody is pleased with just "working" drivers, that is IF they work properly at all..

If you do not want to accept this from anybody with a postcount of "3", try Blue Misfit & praise yourself lucky if you do not have any issues.

Do not let the numbers fool you BTW. I'm far from a rookie.

[Shinigami-Sama]

if you get your hardware off the win2k3 X64 Server HCL you're fine
if not you're screwed
same as always
some people just get it in their head its windows it should have drivers

also 19 days?
solaris 9 64bit SPARC running for 9 years with no down time
:)