If you use Hyper-V a lot, the above solution might be annoying or distasteful for you, though. Log in and you should be able to play Blu-rays on PowerDVD again as before.Windows will prompt you to reboot, after which it will reboot twice before dumping you back at the log in screen.In the window that pops up afterwards, uncheck the parent entry for Hyper-V.In the View by: drop down menu, select anything other than Category.

On the desktop, hold down Windows key + X.I guess Hyper-V breaks HDCP? The more you know … This solution is “free” because you already have PowerDVD and don’t need to pay for anything else. I’ll go through the free option first (thanks to Saba at CyberLink tech support): Solution 1 (FREE as in beer): disable Hyper-V

Turns out there are two solutions to this problem, one of them free, the other quite expensive (we’re talking triple digits here). So what’s going on here and how do you fix it? Oh yeah, that’s my Radeon HD 7870 showing up as “Unknown,” despite having been released in early 2012. Running Cyberlink’s BD & 3D Advisor* utility as suggested produced this shocking output: Yep, that’s a nearly 2 year old graphics card showing up as “Unknown.” I had a small nervous breakdown on seeing this. Since I had the latest AMD Catalyst drivers installed – and you should too – this message made no sense. You can find additional information on the CyberLink FAW web site (code-0012). Make sure it meets the minimum requirements. Playback stopped because your graphics card driver is incompatible. This happened to me earlier today when I tried to play a Blockbuster The Pacific Disc 2 Blu-ray on my PC, only to be greeted by the following error: Period.įew things are more frustrating when high end technology you paid for suddenly fails you after working previously. TL, DR: if you want Blu-ray playback, forget virtualization on the playback PC.

This is probably due to copy protection requiring the player to lock the Blu-ray drive for exclusive access to the player, which may be problematic with VMs. I conclude from this that Blu-ray playback doesn’t work if anything virtualization related is enabled or running at the same time. Shutting down the guest OS I had running in VMware Player Free and then closing the latter fixed the issue. The same disc wouldn’t play on Corel WinDVD Pro either. PowerDVD could not read a file on this disc.Įrror on Windows 8.1 Pro 圆4.

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