AnyDVD HD 6.1.2.0 beta

[James]

It is available here:

http://sandbox.slysoft.com/beta/SetupAnyDVDhd6120.zip

zip password is "takeyourtime" (without the quotes).

You have to reboot after the installation.

This version fixes a bug which prevents OpenSeason R2 (UK & Netherlands) to rip correctly. As always, there are many other small fixes and improvements.
Additionally, it supports decrypting and "on the fly remastering" of HD DVD discs:

6.1.2.0 2007 02 12
- New: Added support for new versions of the SONY Arccos protection
to the option to remove "Protection based on unreadable Sectors"
- New: Added HD DVD and AACS support.
(Registered users need an upgrade key, currently only available to
registered beta testers)
- Fix: Problem with multi-angle titles and Sony Arccos protection
- Some minor fixes and improvements

If you want to test HD DVD decryption but you have bought AnyDVD (not running in demo mode) you have to remove your AnyDVD license key (easiest way to do so is to rename the registry key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\SlysSoft\AnyDVD\Key to something else using regedit).

If you don't have a HD DVD drive you don't need to bother, of course.

[simple]

nobody replyed :confused:


well thanks , cant wait:bowdown:

[Charlie]

Hi simple most of the replies are in thye anydvd section thread title thae same as this one.

[simple]

i meant for putting the beta , public :D :agree:

[europeman]

Looking to try it out tonight in the snow and ice
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[stefan9113]

Hi,
I have a Sony Laptop with BlueRay inside and a HDDVD from Xbox360, the beta runs perfect, I try Troja, it works fine on Laptop LCD and on HDMI output to LCD Beamer. :D

by Stefan

[hanschke]

will there be further anydvd applications or dies the hd version replase the normal one?

[simple]

Hi,
I have a Sony Laptop with BlueRay inside and a HDDVD from Xbox360, the beta runs perfect, I try Troja, it works fine on Laptop LCD and on HDMI output to LCD Beamer. :D

by Stefan

i will be using a lcd projector:D

[zebadee]

i will be using a lcd projector:D

Hi :)
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO TOOT TOOT:bowdown:

[Jabbadabba]

Hi James,
Thanks for putting this into public beta.
I do have some issues though. Menu (of the DVD that I try to play) isn't working as it should both on pdvd 6.5 and windvd 8 ultimate. Where can I put a more detailed description?

[James]

Hi James,
Thanks for putting this into public beta.
I do have some issues though. Menu (of the DVD that I try to play) isn't working as it should both on pdvd 6.5 and windvd 8 ultimate. Where can I put a more detailed description?
Oh dear. What plenty of information your provide. What HD DVD title could this possibly be? Does the title play without problems without AnyDVD HD enabled? (I doubt it).
Both PowerDVD 6.5 and WindDVD 8 HD are broken and have severe playback problems.

[Jabbadabba]

Ah, thanks for the extra info. Wasn't able to find that on this forum or in the info that came with this program.

[colinhunt]

HD DVD: Lucky # Slevin (US)
Player app: PowerDVD 7.1 HD
Hardware acceleration enabled (ATI Avivo)
Display card: ATI Radeon X1950
Display Driver Date: 16.12.2006
Display Driver Version: 8.33.0.0
Display: Dell 3007WFP (via Dual-link DVI for 2560x1600 desktop res)

PowerDVD configuration -
HD DVD Display Mode Preference: HD
User Interface: Use HD DVD hotkeys and Enable mouse in HD DVD both checked
Accessibility Preferences: none checked

AnyDVD configuration -
Video HD DVD Settings: all boxes checked except "Remove all menus from HD DVD"

Issue details:
PDVD shows a partial, very zoomed-in image. In the main menu all I can see is the zoomed-in background with a very large "PLAY" text on top. I can select PLAY and the movie starts, but again, it's hugely zoomed-in and I can only see a very small portion of the entire image. It makes no difference if PDVD is in full screen or windowed mode. Tested Grand Prix HD DVD briefly, with the exact same results. Removed all ticks from AnyDVD Video HD DVD Settings: no change.

Notes:
Display card does not support HDCP over Dual-link DVI, so PDVD refuses to play HD DVDs at all without AnyDVD. It's quite likely the issue is not related to AnyDVD, but is either a bug with PDVD, display drivers or related to Dual-link DVI. Still, thought you might find this useful somehow :)

Update:
Moved the HD DVD drive to another PC (nVidia 7950GT w/ latest drivers, Dell non-HDCP 24" TFT), installed PDVD 7.1 followed by AnyDVD HD beta - and it works perfectly. I'm viewing Grand Prix right now!

[Peer]

PDVD shows a partial, very zoomed-in image. In the main menu all I can see is the zoomed-in background with a very large "PLAY" text on top.


Hi Colinhunt,

I had the exact same issue here on a test-setup some weeks ago with an NVidia 7950 GX2.
Uninstalling and reinstalling the video-drivers solved the problem - although I'm sure, it's actually a bug in PDVD.

[colinhunt]

Uninstalling and reinstalling the video-drivers solved the problem - although I'm sure, it's actually a bug in PDVD.
Most likely. Anyhoo, I'll test juggling the drivers once I have a moment.

[colinhunt]

After a couple of successfull trials with other HD DVDs, I decided to test The Pianist (UK release) to see how PDVD decodes DTS-HD MA.

Everything worked just fine at first. Language selection screen, main menu, and movie started playing without problems. Then I thought about visiting the menu to change audio track to French DTS-HD. Pressed "J" on the keyboard for menu, and playback went all choppy and jerky. Menu bar appeared on top of the movie, eventually. There's no Setup in the menu, so I selected BONUS, where I found "Audio configuration". Selected it, and PDVD started glitching big time.

Audio config screen contains an image of a speaker setup and some informational text. The viewer is supposed to check that the white noise is coming from the speaker indicated by the graphic on-screen. The noise played in short, weird bursts, and navigating the screen was glitchy at best.

I somehow managed to exit the audio config screen and return to main menu. Selected PLAY again, and got a black screen. Pressed "N" on the keyboard to skip a chapter, and according to timecode that worked, but got no image. After a while (like 10 seconds) a freeze frame appeared and PDVD froze up. Had to use Task Manager to kill PDVD.

Rebooted the PC (WinXP Pro SP2 updated, C2D E6400, 2GB, nVidia 7950GT) and tried again. This time PDVD appears to do something, HD DVD drive spins, but there's no image or sound. At all. No matter what I did, I couldn't get The Pianist to work. Tried a couple of reboots, but to no avail.

Will try a cold boot and a different HD DVD next.

Update: did a cold boot and tried with Charlie and The Chocolate Factory (US). It works fine, no problems at all. Ejected it and tried The Pianist again. PDVD starts playing the disc, but there's no image or audio. Ejected The Pianist and put in Charlie and The Choccy Factory again: works fine.

[Killga]

What software player (version etc.) is supposed to work for HD-DVD playback on a PC?!

[colinhunt]

What software player (version etc.) is supposed to work for HD-DVD playback on a PC?!
PowerDVD 7.2 Ultra Deluxe comes with both Blu-ray (v7.2) and HD DVD (v7.1) versions. You can't install both in the same PC, however.

[James]

After a couple of successfull trials with other HD DVDs, I decided to test The Pianist (UK release) to see how PDVD decodes DTS-HD MA.

Everything worked just fine at first. Language selection screen, main menu, and movie started playing without problems. Then I thought about visiting the menu to change audio track to French DTS-HD. Pressed "J" on the keyboard for menu, and playback went all choppy and jerky. Menu bar appeared on top of the movie, eventually. There's no Setup in the menu, so I selected BONUS, where I found "Audio configuration". Selected it, and PDVD started glitching big time.

Audio config screen contains an image of a speaker setup and some informational text. The viewer is supposed to check that the white noise is coming from the speaker indicated by the graphic on-screen. The noise played in short, weird bursts, and navigating the screen was glitchy at best.

I somehow managed to exit the audio config screen and return to main menu. Selected PLAY again, and got a black screen. Pressed "N" on the keyboard to skip a chapter, and according to timecode that worked, but got no image. After a while (like 10 seconds) a freeze frame appeared and PDVD froze up. Had to use Task Manager to kill PDVD.

Rebooted the PC (WinXP Pro SP2 updated, C2D E6400, 2GB, nVidia 7950GT) and tried again. This time PDVD appears to do something, HD DVD drive spins, but there's no image or sound. At all. No matter what I did, I couldn't get The Pianist to work. Tried a couple of reboots, but to no avail.

Will try a cold boot and a different HD DVD next.

Update: did a cold boot and tried with Charlie and The Chocolate Factory (US). It works fine, no problems at all. Ejected it and tried The Pianist again. PDVD starts playing the disc, but there's no image or audio. Ejected The Pianist and put in Charlie and The Choccy Factory again: works fine.

PowerDVD has a bug, it doesn't play Studio Canal titles. Select "No menus - Studio Canal" in AnyDVD. Select the main title manually. (Goto->Chapter)

[colinhunt]

PowerDVD has a bug, it doesn't play Studio Canal titles. Select "No menus - Studio Canal" in AnyDVD. Select the main title manually. (Goto->Chapter)
Thanks for the tip! However, Pianist played quite fine once, before I started meddling :)

[dansthunder]

Hi Colinhunt,

I had the exact same issue here on a test-setup some weeks ago with an NVidia 7950 GX2.
Uninstalling and reinstalling the video-drivers solved the problem - although I'm sure, it's actually a bug in PDVD.

I've found this to happen if you have Anti-Aliasing enabled. The picture "zooms" 2x for 2x AA, and 4x for 4x AA, etc. It went away when you uninstalled and reinstalled your drivers because this setting then disappeared.

It took me awhile to figure that out too.

[dansthunder]

PowerDVD has a bug, it doesn't play Studio Canal titles. Select "No menus - Studio Canal" in AnyDVD. Select the main title manually. (Goto->Chapter)

It actually plays them backwards...(the titles out of order in the xpl file) The black screen is actually playing the black.evo. I have the French version of Total Recall by Studio Canal, and it does that same thing. I thought powerdvd had hung, but if you wait, or remove the "black.evo" info from the xpl file, it'll play fine. I found that out several weeks ago. I haven't tried playing it in Anydvd yet.

[colinhunt]

It actually plays them backwards...(the titles out of order in the xpl file) The black screen is actually playing the black.evo.
Something like this happened with BABEL (US), when I was testing it today. Playback started with a black screen, and PDVD info display showed the 'clip' was 1:20 in length. I pressed N to skip to next chapter, which PDVD did. The main menu appeared and I could start the movie normally.

Disc behaved exactly the same way with AnyDVD "Play without menus (Studio Canal)" setting enabled or disabled.

I then removed all ticks from AnyDVD HD DVD Settings, except Enable HD DVD Support, and restarted PDVD. This time playback began with 8 seconds of black, followed by the Paramount HD DVD intro (1:20 in length, actually), followed by the main menu. Looks to me like all those "Remove first play title", "Remove user prohibitions" etc. options didn't remove the 1:20 intro, but instead seemed to replace it with black screen for the same amount of time.

Still, I have to say I'm very happy with this beta. I couldn't care less about ripping data to HDD, as I was simply looking for a way to play my HD DVDs on my non-HDCP monitors. AnyDVD HD lets me do exactly that. Wonderful!

[colinhunt]

I've found this to happen if you have Anti-Aliasing enabled. The picture "zooms" 2x for 2x AA, and 4x for 4x AA, etc. It went away when you uninstalled and reinstalled your drivers because this setting then disappeared.
Tested this on my X1950XT Avivo with Catalyst 7.1. AA setting makes no difference to the zoomed and distorted image. I also disabled hardware acceleration in PowerDVD, but that didn't change anything either. Oddly enough Catalyst Control Center 7.1 has no option for turning AA off completely.

[Tinker]

Just notice that the two HD DVD backups I did with anydvd have minor stutters. Others I did using the BackupHDDVDGUI (java or C# ver's) dont have this issue. Anybody else notice this? These stutters seems to be with the anydvd process (I am guessing), since I can re-copy and the stutters appear at diff places in the movie. Never had stutters with all other backups when not using anydvd. Since this is a beta , hope its fixed before final release.
The two that was done using anydvd are The Searchers and Mutiny on the Bounty.

Thanks for the Beta :)

[colinhunt]

Didn't the initial versions of "Backup HD DVD" also have a problem with rips that stutter, but they got rid of it later somehow?

[Ajax]

So is AnyDvD HD just going to be the original AnyDvD with HD...

An if so dose this mean we are going top have to buy the new version and junk it on the free updates for life...

I all ready paid for anydvd and found it quite useful so I don't want to buy it again...

[Tinker]

Didn't the initial versions of "Backup HD DVD" also have a problem with rips that stutter, but they got rid of it later somehow?

Never had a probm with backupHDDVD when it worked, but I am currently using the newest vers tho.

[TM2-Megatron]

So is AnyDvD HD just going to be the original AnyDvD with HD...

An if so dose this mean we are going top have to buy the new version and junk it on the free updates for life...

I all ready paid for anydvd and found it quite useful so I don't want to buy it again...

This has already been convered extensively in several other threads. Yeah, AnyDVD and AnyDVD HD are going to be one program... but you aren't required to purchase the upgrade. There will be 2 registration keys, the regular one you've already purchased and an upgraded one that will unlock HD functionality. So if you don't want the HD stuff at this time, you won't need to upgrade (although it likely won't be expensive for owners of AnyDVD).

[joeyooser]

I purchased an xbox drive today, and have had no luck making anydvd work on my desktop, which is an older p4 2.4GHz type machine. The HD-DVD mounts and you can see the title if you go to 'My Computer', however all I get is hanging in explorer if you try to open it.

I did, one time, get into the DVD when I exited out of anydvd, and was able to see the folders in the HD-DVD disc, however that quickly ended and it became inaccessible.

The same hd-dvd drive, drivers, and anydvd seem to work fine when connected to my dell laptop and I was able to drag and drop the hvdvd_ts folder from the hd-dvd onto my c: drive to copy it.

I'm looking forward to a commercial-grade release of this, as I was getting concerned about buying all these HD-DVDs and then having the format go the way of betamax. Some facility for copying these HD-DVD discs onto dual-layer dvd-r will be very good.

[georgeorwell]

PowerDVD 7.2 Ultra Deluxe comes with both Blu-ray (v7.2) and HD DVD (v7.1) versions. You can't install both in the same PC, however.

That's not correct. Check out avsforum, a guy there wrote detailed instructions on how to set it up for both.

[georgeorwell]

Here's a link:

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=800910

[Magical One]

Thanks! Another Future Great Product! From The Sly Fox! :)

[colinhunt]

That's not correct. Check out avsforum, a guy there wrote detailed instructions on how to set it up for both.
Yeah, I knew of that. Tried it a while ago, but it didn't work. Perhaps I should've commented that you can't install both versions... without some tweaking :)

[simple]

to install the HD dvd version:

what you have to do is un-install the software and rename the pdvdbd folder to anything you like then remane the hddvd folder to pdvdbd , now you are ready to install the HD-DVD Version without having the HD-DVD drive installed on your PC

if its been covered sorry for the dupe post , if not this does work :)
http://img233.imageshack.us/img233/8204/powerfj9.png (http://imageshack.us)