A couple of weeks ago I issued a cry for help because I couldn’t work out how to grab screen shots from Blu-ray discs. I’m thankful to the four people who emailed me with various suggestions.<\/p>\n
Two of these involved running software directly on the relevant video file on the disc. Only problem was, my computer wouldn’t open a Blu-ray disc or a HD DVD. As far as it was concerned, there were no discs there.<\/p>\n
PowerDVD Ultra worked with them all right (7.3 for HD DVD, 8 for Blu-ray), but Explorer and other tools on the computer wouldn’t. What was odd was that I clearly remember that when I had a Pioneer Blu-ray burner installed a while back, Explorer would readily display the contents of the Blu-ray disc.<\/p>\n
I spent a bit of time googling around and discovered that you need to have a UDF 2.5 driver installed to allow normal operating system access to these new format discs. Today I confirmed with Pioneer that its drives do indeed come with such a driver. (In addition, I’m told, they also comes with hooks that allow them, uniquely, to work with Windows Media Center.)<\/p>\n
The LG drive doesn’t come with this, which strikes me as bit peculiar. Anyway, there was a workaround (the first post in this thread<\/a> says how to do it, the seventh<\/a> contains the link to the required driver).<\/p>\n So with this done, and the suggestions listened to, I now present my first direct comparison between Blu-ray and DVD quality<\/a>, for the disc Almost Famous<\/em>. I expect to add many more as time goes by.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A couple of weeks ago I issued a cry for help because I couldn’t work out how to grab screen shots from Blu-ray discs. I’m thankful to the four people who emailed me with various suggestions. Two of these involved … Continue reading