Playing HD DVDs with HD DVD Player (WinDVD 7 Silver)

[tkuld]

[quote="LSHorwitz"]I have authored HD DVDs with my recently purchased Video Studio 10 Plus but am unable to play them. The WinDVD player included on the Bonus Features download installs Interactuals Player Version 2 which cannot handle HD content at all.

On Uleads website, the advertised feature of buying Ulead Video Studio 10 Plus is supposedly an HD DVD Player called "WinDVD 7 Silver". Now that I have purchased and insstalled the program and all the associated extras and bonus material, I cannot find this advanced player anywhere in the downloaded files, and it is totally missing.

Has anybody figured out how to play the HD DVDs using the older Player Version 2 which ***is*** included? Has anybody figured out how to get the advertised Version 7 Silver Player, which ***does***handle HD DVD content?

Thanks for your advice and opinions,

Larry[/quote]


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I finally found where to install WinDVD player bundled with VS10 Plus :

First, you have to download "Bonus Features for Ulead VideoStudio 10 Plus - English" with the link provided by Ulead's e-mail. The file name should be "vs10_bonus.exe" with size of 240MB.

Doubleclick it, and this does NOT install anything but only extract all files to a default directory, because it is a copmressed file which include a selfextract tool. And you better know that the default extract directory is DEEP so it's suggested to change default extrarct directory to a simple one.

Final step, go into the extarcted files, execute "AutoRun.exe", then bingo!! Click the 1st item "WinDVD 7" to intall it.

Good luck

[LSHorwitz]

Thanks tkuld for your reply. Unfortunately, the version of WinDVD 7 which Ulead provides is absolutely NOT the version which supports HD DVD playback. It is a standard DVD player like my version 5 which is several years old, but has a new skin and little else. The HD DVD player promised and advertized by Ulead is NOT PART OF the WinDVD 7 they provide.

Larry

[maddrummer3301]

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[LSHorwitz]

MD,

The HD DVD does not contain vob files. If you are refering to the .EVO files either for the main title or the menus, these cannot be played using the WinDVD7 player in any way whatsoever.

The EVO files as they are authored by Ulead VideoStudio 10 Plus are true complaint HD DVD format files, and play properly on the Toshiba HD DVD player, as well as the Macintosh software DVD player. In order to see them in any way on a PC, they can be renamed to .mpg and some but not all of the mpeg compatible software on the market can play them. Some correctly play back the sound, for example, and some do not, depending on whether they can demux them properly and then decode the compressed audio.

The HD DVD format has been released for quite a while now, with the Mac HD DVD compression and authoring software (for example) being released about 10 months ago. There are about 20 titles out there with the hardware players, so I hardly think this has anything at all to do with licensing / encryption, particularly since the Ulead VS10 suite cannot create encrypted HD DVDs.

The simple and most likely correct answer is that Ulead promised to deliver something based on earlier estimates of availability for Intervideo, and could not withold their UV10 Plus release to wait for the finished HD DVD player. Rather than fix their advertizing to correct this, they let it go out anyway.

Larry