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can an xps 1330 play blue rays? how abot an i9300?

post #1 of 11
2/13/09 at 8:54pm
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been goofing around with blue rays.. I tried playing one off an external blue ray palyer using total media, and playback was HORRIBLE. the processor is not being pressed too badly only at about 50% activity).
What gives? I have the nvidia 8400-- doesn't this have nvidia's live hd (or whatever they call it) ?

On that note, anyone ever get an inspiron 9300 to play back blue ray? I have a 7800gtx video card in mine running vista, but all I keep getting is a "video overlay" error when I try. I have a HTPC with the same processor running BD great.. albeit it has a nvidia 8600gts in it..

thanks.
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post #2 of 11
2/16/09 at 7:07pm
The 9300 has neither an HDCP compliant graphics card nor HDCP compliant display and could be related to your overlay errors. The desktop with the 8600GTS has an HDCP compliant video card, and if your monitor is fairly new it is as well.

Don't know why your 1330 would have such poor performance, but it could be due in part to the external Blu-Ray drive you were using.
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post #3 of 11
2/16/09 at 8:02pm


I believe the USB port is your issue if you went internal Drive you would probably be OK
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post #4 of 11
2/16/09 at 10:14pm
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tried it from the internal hard drive, same issue-- TERRIBLE playback.. interesting, cause the procedssr is only at like 20
%
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post #5 of 11
2/16/09 at 10:23pm
Tried a clean install ???

It should be able to handle the playback.
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post #6 of 11
2/17/09 at 4:55am
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brand new, factory fresh clean install... updated to sp1.

Anyone sucessful in getting blurays on a 1330?
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post #7 of 11
2/19/09 at 6:31pm
Set power profile to Always on if you haven't done so already. It may be that the CPU won't come out of a low power state.
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post #8 of 11
2/25/09 at 10:06pm
This may be a bit convoluted, but the problems many are having playing BluRay/HD discs have more to do with the stupid copy protection schemes than GPU/CPU processing capabilities.

My brother recently upgraded his couple of years old desktop to BluRay. He was having a tremendous difficulty trying to playback the discs he was renting. His system only has a 7800GS card which doesn't have the prerequisite HDCP compliant output. After doing a bit of searching on the net we were able to find a work around by using AnyDVD HD.

What he does now is to rip the DVD with AnyDVD (thus removing all of the encyption/protection schemes) onto his hard drive. The resulting output can then be played back directly from his hard drive. It takes a good while to process the disc, but the result is outstanding, and can then be played back with PowerDVD Ultra or HD capable playback software of choice, or copied with any good DVD burning application.

I hope this helps.
Ciao
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post #9 of 11
2/26/09 at 2:28am
I thought all of the 8 series was hdcp compliant but I can't remember.
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post #10 of 11
2/26/09 at 11:07am
ZZ the OP in his second paragraph mentioned his problems trying to play BluRay on his i9300/7800GTX combination. The 7800GTX isn't compliant and HD playback isn't recommended with single core CPUs which is why I chimed in with my work around above. I hope this helps.

Ciao
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post #11 of 11
2/27/09 at 4:13pm
Gotta agree with Tiburon. You should look elsewhere for your Blue Ray playback.
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