Laptop Blu-Ray problem

[Tashy_Man]

Hi,

Got this Acer Aspire 6920G off of ebay....good price but had a few probs. The guy who had it before had put on vista ultimate but deleted the acer recovery stuff so i couldn't put it back to factory settings (it was coming up with numerous error on shutdown) so bought a copy of Windows 7 and installed no probs. Went to the Acer website to try and get all the associated drivers and none there for windows 7 so used the vista home 32 ones and all seems good....went to ATI site for video again all good. None of the acer management software would install.

Now this has a blu ray drive so i bought a film to try and have just tried it (2 weeks later) and it won't play.....

My question is does the blu ray drive need a driver or is it just a matter of downloading some viewing software (I did try Corel WinDVD that says it plays blu ray but that wouldn't work either).

Any ideas or help welcome.......

 

[Shugster]

You could try VLC media player. I'm guessing that the Blu ray needs its own driver too. Does it tell you the model type in hardware manager?

 

[rugby then work]

You need a driver with WHQL certification (a signed driver) in order for the Blu-ray to work. You should be able to get a driver from the link below. Then use something like the latest Cyberlink PowerDVD to play the blu-rays back.

http://www.laptopvideo2go.comhttp://www.e-goat.co.uk/forums/laptopvideo2go.com

 

[Bungala_The_Third]

I have that same laptop, you can donload the acer software called acer arcade deluxe from here and that should work, not sure about with windows 7 but miht be ok, I also use the latest power dvd which works better than the acer software.

hope that helps

 

[Tashy_Man]

I have that same laptop, you can donload the acer software called acer arcade deluxe from here and that should work, not sure about with windows 7 but miht be ok, I also use the latest power dvd which works better than the acer software.

hope that helps

Thanks that might just be what I was looking for.......however at over 100 meg in size it'll have to wait till I get home......oh well something to look forward to in 2 weeks

Cheers all for the replies....will let you know what works eventually !

 

[Malesu]

VLC's ok, but you're better off with PowerDVD or the like.

VLC mostly uses cpu and software encoding, where as proper Blu-ray players will fully utilise your graphics card hardware. Plus, if you're ripping blu-rays to hard drive, the latest VLC don't like playing them.

 

[Geordie4Ever]

VLC's ok, but you're better off with PowerDVD or the like.

VLC mostly uses cpu and software encoding, where as proper Blu-ray players will fully utilise your graphics card hardware. Plus, if you're ripping blu-rays to hard drive, the latest VLC don't like playing them.

I will second PowerDVD its what I use and I have no issues. However, I really do need to upgrade my laptop because it is running at max and is struggling with new technology but wor lass is dead against it. What do women know!!!

 

[Tashy_Man]

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Downloaded the acer arcade deluxe software and works a treat on Windows 7.

Thanks all for your help.....donation to the charity fund incomming...