No picture when using PowerDVD, X360HDDVD, Vista

[Phil H]

Hi everyone,

I have desperately trying to get my HD DVDs to work on my PC. I recently bought a Dell WFP3007-HC 30" Monitor and want to test it out with some 1080ps movies. (I bought Matrix set and Planet Earth, so awesome)

Anyway, I bought AnyDVD and PowerDVD thinking that would be all I need to get my movies playing as my X1950XTX does not have any kind of HDCP passthrough (despite it saying so on the box, but thats another story) and I don't think the dell 30" is HDCP compatible. Anyway I figured AnyDVD would strip the HDCP and AACS so I could just plain and simply watch my DVDs.

However when I try and play a DVD, I get audio fine and even menus appear but there is no video whatsoever. Playing videos individually its any file with a .evo extension that won't play and I'm guessing thats the VC-1 encoded files.

Am I missing anything to get VC-1 playing correctly or have I just wasted $100+ on another failed attempt of simply getting something I paid for to work.

Thanks!

[MEL15]

First of all you will need power dvd ultra for hd and bluray playback ,download power dvd test from cyberlink site,good luck

[Phil H]

Yea I have Ultra 7.4 and the system test said everything was powerful enough.

[Krispy Kritter]

Unless I'm mistaken, you also need fully compliant HDCP hardware, especially with Vista.