Virtualbox and PowerDVD

[jason50146]

Has anybody had any luck getting virtualbox to run powerdvd? I searched around and it looks like it hasn't been done yet, but was curious what everybody here thinks.

I have been trying to play a blu-ray of American Gangster but get an "unidentified error" when trying to play. I may send a message to over to cyberlink, but I'm sure they'll blow me off when they find out I'm running on virtualbox.

I running powerdvd 7.3 on vista ultimate via virtualbox 2.1.2 on ubuntu 8.10

Thanks!

[setarip_old]

Hi!

Are you certain that your system meets PowerDVD's playback hardware "requirements"?

If you don't know, run the (freeware) Cyberlink Advisor...

[jason50146]

Hi!

Are you certain that your system meets PowerDVD's playback hardware "requirements"?



Yes. In fact, I went ahead a resurrected a Vista partition just to test it. Everything works fine when I'm in native windows. I had completely ditched windows, but it looks like blu-ray may pull me back in. My wife just bought a blu-ray drive for me and I would like to make use of it.

I would still love to know if anybody has been able to do it. I played around with the settings to the best of my ability. Google searches seem to indicate others have had the same problems.

Thanks!

[KenD00]

The problem with an virtual os is that Virtualbox (and others) don't get native access to various hardware e.g. your graphics card, so they emulate these devices. That means you will get crappy graphics performance, you won't get hardware acceleration and most probably you won't get HDCP and other nasty DRM stuff working.

Another problem i encountered is that virtualbox has problems passing through commands to the optical drive, at least running an Ubuntu 8.10 guest on an Ubuntu 8.10 host had that problem. Running the Ubuntu 8.10 guest on a Windows XP host did work however. Not sure if this applies to Windows guests too.

When i tried to run PowerDVD 8 on a Windows XP guest running on a Windows XP host i got the nasty error message from PowerDVD that it cannot be run on virtualized hardware. Running WinDVD 9 gave me a black screen and nothing more :(.

:rolleyes:

[setarip_old]

Check out the following link:

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjcyNw

Sounds like there's a fly in the ointment:Now if CyberLink would just implement AMD's new UVD2-backed HD video interface for Linux so that we could experience Blu-Ray movies on Ubuntu...

[KenD00]

The linux version of PowerDVD does NOT playback Blu-Rays, only standard DVDs. And i highly doubt they will ever get a license from the AACS-LA for this...

:rolleyes: