Occasionally Jerky Blu-Ray Playback- Suggestions?

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I recently built an HTPC using pretty decent kit with plenty of overhead.

Core 2 E8400 3GHz (stock)
Asus P5E-VM micro mobo
4GB 2x2GB Corsair 6400C5 (stock)
Asus 9600GT graphics
Asus Xonar D2X (using 5.1 analogue outs)
LG GGC-H20L Blu-ray/HD-DVD combo drive

The OS is Vista HP64 and the Blu-Ray/HD-DVD software is Cyberlink PowerDVD Ultra 7. I set the NVidia control panel to output at 1080p 24p before playback.

Playback quality and audio quality are excellent but on occasion (particularly when the scene changes) the playback has a few seconds of being jerky. This is fairly annoying for an otherwise excellent system and Blu-Ray/HD-DVD experience.

I've tried closing all but the PowerDVD software (including anti-virus) in the task manager but this makes no difference. I've searched Google and Cyberlink forums but I haven't come accross any similarly described problems.

Anyone have any ideas about this? Thanks in advance!
 
Watched both CPU-Z and Windows Task Manager CPU usage whilst playing full screen Blu-Ray- CPU usage only 60%-ish during jumpy spells, so I suppose that's one thing off the list. I assumed a 9600GT would be more than up to the job, do you think that could be the problem? The only other thing I wondered about is the speed of my RAM, but then it's within the FSB of the CPU at stock, so I wouldn't have imagined it to be a problem.

Does anyone else have this issue with the LG drive?
 
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Apparently this is what a lot of people are experiencing on Vista.

What I have seen recommended time and time again is playing your Blu-Rays whilst running AnyDVD from SlySoft.

There should be a trial version of it available to test.
 
you can try anydvd, has been recommended a million and one times around the net as said above. however, seems strange it only happens sometimes. have you tried any other player software, ie. windvd 9 or dare I say it and the codecs play ball wmp 11???
on lower systems I have played around with, I seem to get better playback with windvd, though admittedly that's with ati hardware. is powerdvd using hardware decode settings?
just a thought buddy....
 
Thanks guys. Sorry to take so long to reply to this myself, but it's been a busy old time recently!

As suggested, a change in player software to Arcsoft Total Media Theatre has completely resolved the jumpy playback issue. And it also works fine on Vista 64, despite what Arcsoft themselves say!

Now all I have to do is figure out a way to keep PowerDVD installed (for DVD-Audio playback) but to stop it from opening and shouting "Me too!" everytime a disc is put in the machine. I've obviously changed my Autoplay defaults, but this hasn't sorted the problem.

Any tips?
 
Powerdvd was written by pirates!:eek:
If you rang up customer support with a complaint, they'd sail round your house and make ye walke the planke.....

So I'm safe, no water round here, unless you count the severn flooding from a teacup of rain
 
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