I'm having trouble with Corel's WinDVD Pro 2010 with and any VIDIA driver above 270.61 on an i7/950, 64-bit, EVGA GTX460 SE, EVGA GTS250, 6Gb machine. Whenever it starts, the video goes to a green screen even though the audio is fine. Corel was unaware of the problem and it took me 3 months to convince them that the problem does exist. A solution will not occur overnight and they will probably take their own sweet time in attempting to resolve this, as I am the only one that has reported it. Without any further research into the problem they are already blaming the nVIDIA drivers as the cause.

I don't really want to spend all of my days evaluating all of the different and diverse players out there in the webverse, so can anyone suggest a product that is not having this problem? I am looking for a good to excellent product that supports the current driver (280.26) and hopefully above.

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I don't buy computers, I build them!!

Currently using Roxio with no problems with NVidia. Using Roxio on all rigs with XP 32/64, Vista 32/64 & Win 7 32/64.

Have you tried uninstalling drivers for both NVidia & WinCD, then re-install gpu drivers 1st followed by WinCD....

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Currently using Roxio with no problems with NVidia. Using Roxio on all rigs with XP 32/64, Vista 32/64 & Win 7 32/64.

Have you tried uninstalling drivers for both NVidia & WinCD, then re-install gpu drivers 1st followed by WinCD....

Been there done that, but thanks for the suggestion. I also have done a planned complete system refresh, alibet pushed up. And, the results were the same. What is your current driver version? I will look into the Roxio product.

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I don't buy computers, I build them!!

on my 32 bit rigs its 280.26, not sure what driver versions are on the 64bit rigs. Will check when I've booted them up.

Edit: - also using the current version of VLC with no problems either.

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I would go with VLC as well.

http://www.videolan.org

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on my 32 bit rigs its 280.26, not sure what driver versions are on the 64bit rigs. Will check when I've booted them up.

Edit: - also using the current version of VLC with no problems either.

Sirius B

Thanks a lot for your suggestions. Did a search for the VLC product, but it failed or I entered it wrong. Anyway went back out to the webverse to see what I can see, and didn't find any of the so-called free software that met my requirements, I'm very picky. So I installed the current version of Roxio's CinePlayer BD w/3D (5.6.1), along with the various updates and it works great with the 280.26 driver. The nVIDIA driver install was an upgrade from 270.61, I did not use the clean install option. Looking at the specs the other CinePlayer did not support Blu-ray, which is a must. Unfortunately there was no way to evaluate the product, trial period, without buying it first. Setup & controls are very basic and lacked the sophistication and advanced controls especially for the audio as in the Corel product. But I think I'll keep it becuse it WORKS!!.

When Corel get its act together, I'll move the Roxio software to my other machine.

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I don't buy computers, I build them!!

I don't buy computers, I build them!!

I agree with you, then you get what you paid for.

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I don't buy computers, I build them!!

I agree with you, then you get what you paid for.

My very first pc was purchased at a computer show and several years back I bought one because of an emergency, the box I had went south and I needed one PDQ because I was on 24/7 support at work. I've built several machines in the mean time, mostly for myself, but have done others for friends. BTW -- I appropriated that quote from a tee shirt that I bought at Micro Center, a computer store that I get some of my supplies/parts from.

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I don't buy computers, I build them!!

I have to admit that I am not up to building a laptop yet; I can do little things like change memory and some CPUs, Wi Fi cards, and DVD, CD players. I opened the back of my wife's “Mac I book G-4” one day, very scary. Still that box is the best all round machine in the house.

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I have to admit that I am not up to building a laptop yet; I can do little things like change memory and some CPUs, Wi Fi cards, and DVD, CD players. I opened the back of my wife's “Mac I book G-4” one day, very scary. Still that box is the best all round machine in the house.

I worked on a friends's laptop a couple of months ago to swap out the memory sticks. Don't want to do that again. I think I'll stick to Intel desktops only, AMD and I don't get along. Had a real bad experience several years ago with one and I will never get another. I apologize to all those who love AMD, but it is what it is, and I haven't yet found anything yet that will out perform Intel.

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I don't buy computers, I build them!!

I use VLC for everything. It's played everything I've thrown at it, and it's free. It's not bloated, and open source :)

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

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Will it allow blue ray DVDs to be played on any DVD player?
I have a DVD Super Multi DL drive in this laptop, it has an i3
CPU in it.

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Will it allow blue ray DVDs to be played on any DVD player?
I have a DVD Super Multi DL drive in this laptop, it has an i3
CPU in it.

Does the player have a blue laser? If not, nothing can make it play a blu-ray.

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If you're just playing videos then as most say VLC media player is the one to go for. I started using it after windows media player would give me nothing but errors on playing basically any video. No problems since.
If you want to use something for MAKING DVDs then I recommend Ashampoo Burning Studio. I don't know if the latest supports Blu-rays, but practically any format of video I've wanted to put on DVD it does (after encoding, which it does), and can be played on most modern DVD players. The free alternative is DVD Flick which I use quite regularly as well.
WARNING: ASHAMPOO CAN BE SPAMMY, BUT THAT CAN EASILY BE RECTIFIED ON YOUR ASHAMPOO HOMEPAGE. (If you decide to buy their software, of course).

If you're just playing videos then as most say VLC media player is the one to go for. I started using it after windows media player would give me nothing but errors on playing basically any video. No problems since.
If you want to use something for MAKING DVDs then I recommend Ashampoo Burning Studio. I don't know if the latest supports Blu-rays, but practically any format of video I've wanted to put on DVD it does (after encoding, which it does), and can be played on most modern DVD players. The free alternative is DVD Flick which I use quite regularly as well.
WARNING: ASHAMPOO CAN BE SPAMMY, BUT THAT CAN EASILY BE RECTIFIED ON YOUR ASHAMPOO HOMEPAGE. (If you decide to buy their software, of course).

If you want just a plain vanilla player, I guess VLC or Ashampooo is/are the way to go. I have always found that free software is not always the best way to go for they offer the least amount of control options.

But my interests are a little more sophisticated. With the Corel product which I have used for years, I have the option to play Blu-ray, and older 3D movies without having a 3D TV or monitor. With its advanced software, I can control the enviroment in which I watch the video and listen to its audio. If it was not for the current problem of it not working with the newer nVIDIA drivers and attempting to crunch with them, this thread would never had gotten started.

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I don't buy computers, I build them!!

If you're just playing videos then as most say VLC media player is the one to go for. I started using it after windows media player would give me nothing but errors on playing basically any video. No problems since.
If you want to use something for MAKING DVDs then I recommend Ashampoo Burning Studio. I don't know if the latest supports Blu-rays, but practically any format of video I've wanted to put on DVD it does (after encoding, which it does), and can be played on most modern DVD players. The free alternative is DVD Flick which I use quite regularly as well.
WARNING: ASHAMPOO CAN BE SPAMMY, BUT THAT CAN EASILY BE RECTIFIED ON YOUR ASHAMPOO HOMEPAGE. (If you decide to buy their software, of course).

If you want just a plain vanilla player, I guess VLC or Ashampooo is/are the way to go. I have always found that free software is not always the best way to go for they offer the least amount of control options.

But my interests are a little more sophisticated. With the Corel product which I have used for years, I have the option to play Blu-ray, and older 3D movies without having a 3D TV or monitor. With its advanced software, I can control the enviroment in which I watch the video and listen to its audio. If it was not for the current problem of it not working with the newer nVIDIA drivers and attempting to crunch with them, this thread would never had gotten started.

Apologies Cliff, I thought you were looking for something just to tide you over till you could get the programs you're used to using to back up and running.

If you're just playing videos then as most say VLC media player is the one to go for. I started using it after windows media player would give me nothing but errors on playing basically any video. No problems since.
If you want to use something for MAKING DVDs then I recommend Ashampoo Burning Studio. I don't know if the latest supports Blu-rays, but practically any format of video I've wanted to put on DVD it does (after encoding, which it does), and can be played on most modern DVD players. The free alternative is DVD Flick which I use quite regularly as well.
WARNING: ASHAMPOO CAN BE SPAMMY, BUT THAT CAN EASILY BE RECTIFIED ON YOUR ASHAMPOO HOMEPAGE. (If you decide to buy their software, of course).

If you want just a plain vanilla player, I guess VLC or Ashampooo is/are the way to go. I have always found that free software is not always the best way to go for they offer the least amount of control options.

But my interests are a little more sophisticated. With the Corel product which I have used for years, I have the option to play Blu-ray, and older 3D movies without having a 3D TV or monitor. With its advanced software, I can control the enviroment in which I watch the video and listen to its audio. If it was not for the current problem of it not working with the newer nVIDIA drivers and attempting to crunch with them, this thread would never had gotten started.

Apologies Cliff, I thought you were looking for something just to tide you over till you could get the programs you're used to using to back up and running.

No apologies neccessary, I didn't mean to sound so sharp, and I was looking for something to tide me over until Corel gets its act together. The player from Roxi did the trick.

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I don't buy computers, I build them!!

I use VLC for everything i need.

Blue Ray, DVD and all single file formats.

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With each crime and every kindness we birth our future.

I'm currently using Roxio 10, but since ordering a Blu-Ray drive will be upgrading to Roxio 11 as v10 doesn't have Blu-Ray. also, it's reasonably priced.

Roxio 11

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OP I've always had great luck with VLC as mentioned previously.

Download link

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-windows.html

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