BluRay problem [im new here too]

Hi everyone
Im new here at the forum ive been readin parts of it in search of help for a problem i got with my Blu Ray player

Got an Acer Aspire 8920, bought last august,I got it hooked up to a Sanyo hdtv via hdmi at the highest resolution, Ive played one blu ray before just to test it [ the incredible hulk] and it worked fine, but that was the only time i played blu ray..... yesterday was the first time i bought blu rays for it though [pitch black and chronicles of riddick] excited i put it in asked me for updates which i did and bam played it but when id go to full screen it would startlike flashing [like the screen goin on n off... you could still see the image but it with the flashin in between] n then it crashed so when ibooted it up again it wouldnt play it would just stay in a black screen
So reading around and people were talking about the area changing it from A to B so i did, and seemed to be reading the disc again, but the flashing kept happening...its like watching a video game goin at a lower framerate, it just keep flashin n jumping from scene to scene

so i kept reading and found that the acer arcade delux might be the problem
so i read that powerdvd is the best player...went, bought it installed, not only crashes on me sometimes, but when it gets to play, again when i put it in full screen, gives me the same flashing tried at a lower resolution i get the same thing

anyone got any ideas....this is a dissappointment since the reason i bought the computer besides its flashiness and specs was the blu ray player!, n now that i finally saved some money for some blus, it wont work!!

lookin forward to reading some suggestions
thanks in advance!

 

Oh wow..no ones got any clue? at all?

 

you can try discs in another player to check them (in the shop they came from?). flashing could be something else running and hogging resources, check the task manager, look for eg virus checker (or a virus if you dont have a checker), program trying to update, malware. do you have the same video drivers as when you tried before? you need whql certified ones. failing that, it could be the drive itself. can you read/write dvds ok?

 

Could be a faulty disc as gazzacbr has already suggested, this could explain the skipping. A faulty disc is more likely to freeze the player than crash it but either could happen. When you say the player crashes, what do you mean, what are the symptoms?
I have definitely seen the player struggle on my 8930 as a result of background tasks (anti-virus had started a scan) though I was playing 1080p video from the HDD rather than BluRay.
Some BluRay discs can cause players to stutter, black screen and crash. "Quantum of Solace" was one and some players needed to be patched to fix this! PowerDVD has definitely had these sort of issues in the past... acer arcade and power dvd are both cyberlink!
Other things to check are the player settings (e.g. hardware acceleration). Make sure the notebook is powered and pwer saving features set for maximum performance. Try a different disk (The Hulk again?).

 

Hey guys sorry for not bein online in a while, been busy
thanks for ur replies
so far there seems to be nothing conflicting [in the task manager], ive tried the demo disc that comes with the player n a couple other blu rays, still keep getting this fskips [as if the frame rate drops or somethin in a game]
dvds play fine is the blu rays that dont
its weird cause when trying the chronicles of riddick theres an intro by the director this seems to work fine its the menus n movies that skip
cant try hulk again since it was my friends n shes not here anymore

any other suggestions?
thanks again guys

 

Hi, is the problem is with the TV display and are you trying to run both the laptop monitor and the TV at the same time? If so you can't, licencing restrictions mean you can only display on one, try 'FnF5' to output to a single display only...
Chris

 

really? but it worked before [when i tried with the hulk blu ray]
and ive been usin the tv as my second monitor for months for games dvds everythin is this a blu ray only thing?

thank u for ur reply

 

Yes, it is a blu-ray thing. Play it on only the tv, not on both screens. Depending on the computer, Blu- ray will either not play, play badly or play in low res, if both monitors are on. This is not an error, it is intentional from the flilm makers. I believe it is copy right protection.

 

wow that is extremely dissappointing, ill give it a try later tonight and see how it goes
thanks again!

 

Hey guys I havent been online in a while. I got the blu ray working with the suggestions mentioned [ just using one screen]
So at elast thats fine, thank you for all your inputs, it was really appreciated