WinDVD 9 and/or PowerDVD 8 compatible with Vegas?

Salamander wrote on 11/30/2008, 6:04 PM

I'm ready to start producing BluRay versions of my Vegas projects, and am looking for software to be able to play them back on my computer. Are both WinDVD 9 Plus BluRay and Power DVD 8 Ultra compatible with Vegas? Is there any reason (other than price) to pick one over the other?

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ushere wrote on 11/30/2008, 6:38 PM

compatible? they'll both read m2t files (certainly pdvd8, which is my player of choice). as for avchd, i'm sure dvd8 does this as well, but i use vlc for most mp4 type formats...

leslie

darkframe wrote on 12/1/2008, 1:38 AM

Hi,

well, both do not mess around with the Vegas installation. However, if I remember correctly (I'll have to check that tonight), both cannot play back Blu-Ray structures from harddisk. Most likely that's some kind of copy-protection. However, when burning a project to BD-RE for test purposes, both are fine in playing that.

One difference which I've found is that WinDVD cannot cope with Popup menus, at least not with those which can be created with the new TMPGEnc Author 4. PowerDVD however displays them just great, so, like ushere, I do prefer PowerDVD.

Cheers

darkframe

megabit wrote on 12/1/2008, 2:49 AM

However, if I remember correctly (I'll have to check that tonight), both cannot play back Blu-Ray structures from harddisk.

That's correct; what's more they won't play from a virtual DVD drive with your BD.iso image mounted.

They need a copy protection scheme-compliant hadrware player.

Salamander wrote on 12/1/2008, 3:57 PM

Thanks!