Right, just a quick rant about cyberlink - despite my parents having paid for the program (so it's theirs, technically, and I'm using my bluray disks in their computer) I am apparantly unable to watch something I've already watched on said cyberlink program.
This isn't the first time this has happened either, before (I believe with Hugo, maybe) where Cyberlink popped up with a "You must update Cyberlink powerdvd 10 before you can watch the bluray disk" (or something of that ilk). The first time it asked, I saw no problem with it; maybe the software hadn't been updated / configured for blurays properly, and so I did it, but now it's asking me to do it again? Despite me knowing I've been able to watch it before? I see no need to update it for this - the content on the disk hasn't changed (so it won't be using a new and updated version of whatever encoding they do to make blurays), so the issue must be something with the software, and as it ran before without any software issues, I can only see this as a mandatory update that isn't actually needed.
I decided to click 'yes' to updating it again, figuring I should just go along with it and play by it's rules, however the anti-virus program they've got popped up as it was doing so, saying that intercepted a trojan (maybe a false positive as the location was where cyberlink puts it's stuff, so I doubt it was a coincidence) and it said it had removed it. This leaves me at a problem; Cyberlink is still trying to load the bluray (and is at 99%, and has been for about five minutes or so). I get the feeling that if I force-closed cyberlink (as right click close, alt+w, alt+F4, etc didn't work on it) and attempted it again, the same thing would happen.
TL;DR - Cyberlink is asking me to update it's power DVD to view a bluray I've already watched on it before, while the antivirus is picking up a part of the update (or the whole update) as a trojan and removing it.
So this thread is really a two part question....asker......thing.
A) Anyone know a way around this issue?
B) Anyone know of any better bluray softwares than Cyberlink (preferably free) - I've heard VLC can play some, but I've yet to have it work.
I don't know if anyone actually puts up with PowerDVD, or if it's just a bad program, or if I'm just unlucky (or just getting worked up too much over trivial things), but honestly I don't know how much my parents paid for it, but I have a feeling it was overpriced.
This isn't the first time this has happened either, before (I believe with Hugo, maybe) where Cyberlink popped up with a "You must update Cyberlink powerdvd 10 before you can watch the bluray disk" (or something of that ilk). The first time it asked, I saw no problem with it; maybe the software hadn't been updated / configured for blurays properly, and so I did it, but now it's asking me to do it again? Despite me knowing I've been able to watch it before? I see no need to update it for this - the content on the disk hasn't changed (so it won't be using a new and updated version of whatever encoding they do to make blurays), so the issue must be something with the software, and as it ran before without any software issues, I can only see this as a mandatory update that isn't actually needed.
I decided to click 'yes' to updating it again, figuring I should just go along with it and play by it's rules, however the anti-virus program they've got popped up as it was doing so, saying that intercepted a trojan (maybe a false positive as the location was where cyberlink puts it's stuff, so I doubt it was a coincidence) and it said it had removed it. This leaves me at a problem; Cyberlink is still trying to load the bluray (and is at 99%, and has been for about five minutes or so). I get the feeling that if I force-closed cyberlink (as right click close, alt+w, alt+F4, etc didn't work on it) and attempted it again, the same thing would happen.
TL;DR - Cyberlink is asking me to update it's power DVD to view a bluray I've already watched on it before, while the antivirus is picking up a part of the update (or the whole update) as a trojan and removing it.
So this thread is really a two part question....asker......thing.
A) Anyone know a way around this issue?
B) Anyone know of any better bluray softwares than Cyberlink (preferably free) - I've heard VLC can play some, but I've yet to have it work.
I don't know if anyone actually puts up with PowerDVD, or if it's just a bad program, or if I'm just unlucky (or just getting worked up too much over trivial things), but honestly I don't know how much my parents paid for it, but I have a feeling it was overpriced.