Playing BD on PC

[Dogway]

Im eager to make new threads, but Im out of ideas now.

Im trying to playback blurays discs in MPC-HC, as I saw many people is actually doing it. I read I would need a decrypter or something so I used DVDfab passkey trial, and my drive showed empty (same as not using DVDfab). I tried with a DVD, and everything was ok, I could even drag&drop a .vob.

The thing here is DVDfab detected my bluray disc and seemed to delete protection, its just that my drive folder was empty. So I searched a bit, and decided to update my System BIOS, and drive firmware, but still the same.

What am I lacking here? can someone recommend me another decrypter, freeware if possible?
My drive is an LG combo, "HL-DT-ST BDDVDRW CT10N, WA02".

[Inspector.Gadget]

I just bought the same drive; it shipped with fimware rev. 1.00 and so far (on the only Blu-ray disc I had on hand to test) it worked fine with a recent revision of AnyDVD HD (which has a free trial available). If you had a blue laser failure or similar you might not even get an acknowledgment in software that a disc was in the drive, or you might get a lot of spin-up and fail retries. Try out AnyDVD and see what happens.

[setarip_old]

@Dogway

Hi!

If your OS is WinXP, you'll likely have to install a UDF 2.50 driver...

[Dogway]

This is what AnyDVD HD says:

Summary for drive E: (AnyDVD 6.7.9.0)
HL-DT-ST BDDVDRW CT10N WA02 030811080088Q71207
Drive (Hardware) Region: 2

Current profile: BD-ROM
Media is a Blu-Ray disc.

Total size: 18244704 sectors (35634 MBytes)
Video Blu-ray label: LABYRINTH
Media is AACS protected!
AACS MKB version 12
Removed AACS copy protection!
Note: automatic detection of region code not possible with this disc.
Blu-ray disc Region set to B!
Possible Blu-ray Java region lock removed!
Blu-ray Java signatures fixed!
BD-Live deactivated!
Removed UOPs!

But still the drive is empty. How do you know the revision firmware?
Before I was playing them with powerDVD so the driver works. And I just tried another BD and behaviour is the same. The drive shows as a CD-drive.
The tray icon says activate:1, others are 0

[Dogway]

@setarip_old
Thanks, must be it. Is it drive specific?

edit: Worked!!, thanks a lot.

[Inspector.Gadget]

How do you know the revision firmware?

Yours is WA02. The date field is missing for some reason (OEM custom firmware, no doubt) but you have the full serial number visible; my firmware version and date on the factory drive look like:

HL-DT-ST BDDVDRW CT21N 1.00 09/12/10

[Dogway]

I was going to ask you for a firmware dump, but yours is CT21N so I think it wouldnt work. I use a small cmd tool to flash the firmware with one I downloaded around for version A104. But it looks it didnt do anything, so I guess something wasnt compatible.

[Inspector.Gadget]

Oops. I misread at first and thought you had a CT21N. I guess yours is ACER OEM? Apparently there's been no new firmware issued for this drive (per a google search for wa02 firmware) but I'm not sure whether your drive is riplocked to 2x for BD or not.

[Dogway]

I just followed this post (http://forum.rpc1.org/viewtopic.php?p=230148&sid=5e289e1aae49e1d66268dd7a1aadf5d1#p230148)which seemed useful. Although flashing was successful, I still see WA02. yep, its acer.

[setarip_old]

@Dogway @setarip_old
Thanks, must be it. Is it drive specific?
edit: Worked!!, thanks a lot.

Glad to hear it worked for you. You're quite welcome ;>}