ArcSoft TotalMedia (English Version) Availability

[digitalfreak]

Where's the Slysoft player James? Looks like nobody else is gonna be able to knock one out of the park in this ballgame.

[talon95]

Everyone is being so negative. Look on the bright side, this should provide another source for decryption keys.

[digitalfreak]

To everyone having issues, I'd say that since they've officially released the product, bombard their tech support with your problems. That should give us some indication of how willing they are to get them fixed.

[Wydo]

I have read topics about how people were waiting for an english version. That raises the question on how long have they had a non english version. Does anyone know how long this software has been around? It seems that the core of the software that plays HD files and discs should have been around for a while. The english part is just an update on the user interface.

[SamuriHL]

Since last summer IIRC. So yea, there really is no excuse for the sad shape this is in. I mean, ATI only support in Vista? Um, WHAT? No BD+ support? Excuse me? And the various other issues that people have found. Also, if you uninstall it, as I did on my laptop(never made it to my HTPC thank God), it doesn't remove everything. I'm NOT amused with this software at all. They did not make a good impression on me. Oh well.

[talon95]

Originally Posted by SamuriHL

Since last summer IIRC. So yea, there really is no excuse for the sad shape this is in. I mean, ATI only support in Vista? Um, WHAT? No BD+ support? Excuse me? And the various other issues that people have found. Also, if you uninstall it, as I did on my laptop(never made it to my HTPC thank God), it doesn't remove everything. I'm NOT amused with this software at all. They did not make a good impression on me. Oh well.

It's supposed to be that it only supports ATI cards in Vista. They supposedly support Nvidia in both XP and Vista 32. I say supposedly because I've had no luck getting it to work at all in Vista 32 with my 8800GT (169.02). I can't get a disk to start at all. Just hits my Xbox 360 drive for a moment and then stops. Nothing, nada, zip... I tried both King Kong and Riddick.

Definite no-go for me.

[SamuriHL]

Considering I got the same set up on my HTPC (vista 32, 8800GT w/ 169.02) there's absolutely no point in even trying to run it there. Besides, I read about some supposed audio issues with it so even if it did work I'd not be happy with the audio output. They could have really stolen a lot of business away from Cyberlink had they released a solid product. And given the time frame that they've had to fix all these issues, I'm not hopeful that things are going to get better any time soon. I hope they prove me wrong, but, somehow I doubt it.

[talon95]

Yea, I don't know what the problem is with my setup. The only thing it will play is media files (tried some xvid avi's). Even a DVD I tried on my HD didn't work. Obviously an install problem of some sort. Missing/incompatible codec or something.

[SamuriHL]

That's awesome. Here we have been waiting for MONTHS for this player to come out and blow us all away. We thought we could finally get rid of PowerDVD. HAHAHHAHA, yea, no. I'll stick to what (mostly) works. As much as I hate PowerDVD Ultra (I was a HUGE PowerDVD fan pre-7 days) it seems we're stuck with it for now. Not much we can do about it I suppose.

[talon95]

Works in my XP install though (which is actually what I use normally). I am on newer vid drivers there (169.21). I'll install the latest vid drivers in Vista tomorrow and see if that helps.