Is anyone else having problems with Blu-Ray drives showing up in Windows XP? I have a Liteon DH-4O1S-08 Blu-ray drive and power DVD 8 software that came with the drive. It plays Blu-Rays but only if you select play inside the power DVD program. If you open my computer in windows it just shows the drive as a CD/DVD drive. If you double click the icon windows says please insert a disk into the drive when there already is a Blu-Ray in the drive. Also DVD Fab HD will not recognize the drive. It even has problems when I put a DVD in it. It says that the IFO might be bad. I guess my main question would be does this sound like a Hardware issue with the Blu-ray drive or a software issue with Windows XP and DVD Fab HD? I'm leaning toward a hardware issue. Unless windows XP is not recognizing the drive correctly and that is causing other programs (DVD Fab HD) to have issues also. Your thoughts.
I have a pioneer Sata Bluray drive, XP and anydvd HD.
I think Im right in saying that you cannot explore a BD disc content with windows because you need software that can read & dsplay the UDF file system.
Windows cannot do this.
I have no problems playing back any media in the drive.
What you report you see under "my computer" is the same as me.
I have the free version of DVDFAB HD.
I don't know if it's supposed to be able to rip Bluray but it doesn't i can tell you that.
I'm sure I read somehwere it can rip HD DVD though.
That kind of sucks because I'm pretty sure that it says right on the DVD FAB HD web site that it rips Blu-ray and HD DVD. I was going to buy it but not if it only works with the dying HD format. I will contact their support and find out for sure. Thanks for all the help.
As I said in my first reply, I use anydvd HD by Slysoft.
You could buy that and it will rip your bluray and negate any HDCP connection issues between your PC and HDTV.
