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[mackado]

I was finally able to create using MyDVD an ISO- AVCHD slide production without getting the "Project build to device author script ...call failed while writing format" error but now Cineplayer will not play the ISO to test before burning...and neither will VLC media player...

I've tried so many things for so many days to get here that I'm not totally sure, but I  could swear I played another small test AVCHD ISO before using Cineplayer, but for some reason neither one of these ISOs will play now....

I'm using Roxio's image loader that launches cineplayer automatically but displays error "file format not supported please install appropriate decoders to play file" ..... and VLC reads.. "VLC doesn't support audio/video format UNDF"

It is my understanding that win7 has the necessary AVCHD drivers, Anyone has any suggestions?

Edited by mackado, 24 September 2010 - 01:18 AM.

[sknis]

mackado, on 23 September 2010 - 11:36 PM, said:

I was finally able to create using MyDVD an ISO- AVCHD slide production without getting the "Project build to device author script ...call failed while writing format" error but now Cineplayer will not play the ISO to test before burning...and neither will VLC media player...

I've tried so many things for so many days to get here that I'm not totally sure, but I  could swear I played another small test AVCHD ISO before using Cineplayer, but for some reason neither one of these ISOs will play now....

I'm using Roxio's image loader that launches cineplayer automatically but displays error "file format not supported please install appropriate decoders to play file" ..... and VLC reads.. "VLC doesn't support audio/video format UNDF"

It is my understanding that win7 has the necessary AVCHD drivers, Anyone has any suggestions?

VLC will not play AVCHD.  CinePlayer will not play an ISO.

I'm not sure from the above if you tried this.  You can mount a virtual drive add the ISO and then play that in CinePlayer.  I have Creator 2011 so I don;t remember what it is called.  Go to tool from the Home page and select whatever is closest to "Load Disc Image".  Follow the direction and then point to that disc in CinePlayer to play it.

or simply burn to a RW drive using "Burn Disc Image"

Edited by sknis, 24 September 2010 - 04:02 AM.

[mackado]

sknis, on 24 September 2010 - 03:53 AM, said:

VLC will not play AVCHD.  CinePlayer will not play an ISO.

I'm not sure from the above if you tried this.  You can mount a virtual drive add the ISO and then play that in CinePlayer.  I have Creator 2011 so I don;t remember what it is called.  Go to tool from the Home page and select whatever is closest to "Load Disc Image".  Follow the direction and then point to that disc in CinePlayer to play it.

or simply burn to a RW drive using "Burn Disc Image"

Yes, I'm using Roxio's  'load' procedure from the menu's 'Main Page " or from the 'Tool's drop down list, Cineplayer is launched automatically after loading the ISO but  displays error...

"file format not supported please install appropriate decoders to play file"

Looking at Windows explorer, the virtual mounted drive displays the DVD with the correct Volume  name and all, but it uses a BD (Blu disk?)icon to describe the content instead of the regular DVD logo.

Is this normal for an AVCHD ISO?

I burned this project to ISO from MyDVD as an AVCHD, so I'm wondering if Cineplayer thinks I'm running a BLU-Ray disk and it's asking for Roxio's Blu-Ray Plug-in which I don't have....

Edited by mackado, 24 September 2010 - 12:55 PM.

[gi7omy]

That's normal - AVCHD is basically Blu-Ray format on a DVD disc.

You can't play it in a standard set-top DVD player either - only a Blu-Ray one

[mackado]

gi7omy, on 24 September 2010 - 12:24 PM, said:

That's normal - AVCHD is basically Blu-Ray format on a DVD disc.

You can't play it in a standard set-top DVD player either - only a Blu-Ray one

Thanks, this is my first AVCHD and was not sure if it was normal for W7 explorer to display a BD icon instead of DVD...

I just burned the AVCHD ISO to DVD and it all went fine..tested on my AVCHD capable Blu-ray Panny, and it plays fine...
But there is a mistake on the Menu's title that I missed, so I'm fixing the MyDVD project , this is why I need Cineplayer to playback the AVCHD ISO after mounting to virtual Drive, so I can catch this errors before burning to disc since I'm yet to pickup any DVD-RW.........

Edited by mackado, 24 September 2010 - 12:54 PM.

[sknis]

mackado, on 24 September 2010 - 12:53 PM, said:

Thanks, this is my first AVCHD and was not sure if it was normal for W7 explorer to display a BD icon instead of DVD...

I just burned the AVCHD ISO to DVD and it all went fine..tested on my AVCHD capable Blu-ray Panny, and it plays fine...
But there is a mistake on the Menu's title that I missed, so I'm fixing the MyDVD project , this is why I need Cineplayer to playback the AVCHD ISO after mounting to virtual Drive, so I can catch this errors before burning to disc since I'm yet to pickup any DVD-RW.........

I'm not convinced that you will be able to play an AVCHD ISO with an emulated drive.  I have not been able to do so.  I tried today.

[mackado]

sknis, on 24 September 2010 - 02:29 PM, said:

I'm not convinced that you will be able to play an AVCHD ISO with an emulated drive.  I have not been able to do so.  I tried today.

Skinis, thanks for your help and effort in trying to find this problem..

I figured it out!

Like I said at the top of this thread, I thought I used Cineplayer in a test on this PC, but after it failed to work this time, I thought maybe it it was my imagination, and that maybe I had seen cineplayer's screen in an online video or something......

But I started thinking what I had changed here in this PC recently...turns out a couple of days ago I swapped the older DVI monitor cable for a brand new HDMI, this monitor came equipped with old VGA only and I was using my other PC's DVI cable in the meantime..

I just snapped the old DVI cable back and Cineplayer works fine now..this HDMI's cable specs claims to be 'fully'  HDCP compliant, (AFAIK older DVI is not fully compliant) so I think since AVCHD is associated with Blu-Ray, win7 might be reporting the disc as Blu-RAY and Cineplayer is asking for the Blu-ray software plug-in for 'handshake' purposes as required by HDCP...

Or maybe the HDMI cable is not really compliant.. but in this case I would think lots of people would be complaining to the online seller about not been able to play regular retail Blu-ray discs in their PCs with their cables.. in any case I'm going to double check with the seller......

This stuff could drive someone nuts!

Edit: I double checked, and my new HDMI cables are fully HDCP compliant, which means if you use HDMI cable to your monitor and win7 then you need the Blu-ray plug-in to use cineplayer, or use a DVI cable if you can instead...

From seller's page..

Question: What is HDCP and are these cables HDCP compliant?   Answer: HDCP stands for High-bandwidth Digital Content  Protection.  It is a digital rights management technology used by  content providers such as movie studios to protect their media property  from being illegally distributed.


"Since HDCP is a requirement of the HDMI format, all HDMI cables are HDCP capable by default."

Edited by mackado, 24 September 2010 - 08:17 PM.