Horizontal flickering lines when playing Blu-rays

Kraven · 31 Dec 2011 at 17:56

Hi guys I built a new PC in november with a Samsung blu ray drive, it has worked great burning DVD's etc. However after getting some new bluray movies this Christmas I tried playing them and was met with sporadic horizontal lines which are whitish/greyish in appearance.

When I tried playing disks using powerdvd this flickering could take up half the screen, however with Total Media Theatre the flickering is just a line that can appear anywhere on the screen and flash for a milisecond, which is quite distracting!

Just wondering if anyone has had any similar occurrences of this, I do have a 120hz monitor but not sure if this would affect it. I have updated the firmware of the drive as well.

Any ideas?

Threepwood · 31 Dec 2011 at 18:27

So, it's only when playing disks from drive? Not at other times?

Reaper 392 · 31 Dec 2011 at 18:27

try forcing Vsync on at a driver level.

Kraven · 31 Dec 2011 at 19:06

shadesofgrey said:
So, it's only when playing disks from drive? Not at other times?

Yep everything else plays fine from PC just using the drive itself to play a Blu-ray I see the lines.

Reaper 392 said:
try forcing Vsync on at a driver level.

Gave that a go forcing off and forcing on no change.

Wondering if it could be something to do with HDCP? Who knows! Very annoying

Kraven · 1 Jan 2012 at 15:26

This is what it looks like if people are wondering, ( not my vid ) but same effect.

Reaper 392 · 1 Jan 2012 at 15:45

wow, thats a new one on me. all i can advise is the usual ask samsung's customer support, or the customer service section of this forum

Kraven · 1 Jan 2012 at 15:50

Yeah guess I will have to, seems to be happening now on DVD's so it might just be a bad drive, but I am just worried it might be interfering with the 120hz monitor.

Edit: I seem to have resolved it after testing in an older PC, it was either a loose cable or hardware acceleration being turned off and not restarting the media player. Not sure which but problem resolved hopefully for good!