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<blockquote data-quote="Berns" data-source="post: 998305" data-attributes="member: 96677">Hi Silentsea,My German is not at level to write. Still I wanted to share my experience related to BD's. Running a BD on an HTPC is not just a matter of choosing the hardware. It is a HW/SW combination. I own quite a number of BD's and when playing them with an intel DG45FC motherboard with E5200 processor, windows 7, Total Media Theatre 3, virtually none would play. I've been running AnyDVD HD resulting in all of the BD's to be running. That went well for about 3 years. (I found out that setting TMT3 to play Dolby in any kind of sircumstance would bring stability) Recently I got &quot;The Lorax&quot; for the kids, and the movie simply did not seem to be compatible with my PC.On TV matters, my satellite provider moved all channels - even SD ones - to H.264 coding, and there was lag between the images and the sound after that.Over the last week, I migrated to an ASUS P8H77-I motherboard with i5 processor, windows 7 and still Total Media Theatre 3. Today, the sync between the image and the sound is much better, and suddenly all my BD's run as a charm. Including &quot;The Lorax&quot;.I'm using sony optiarc bc-5600s drive. It is a bit noisy at startup, though once the movie is on, nobody notices the spinning noise any more.&nbsp;For summary: with a good combination of HW and SW, it is possible to play all BD's.&nbsp;I'll be moving into version 1.3 after some functionality testing soon, and hope to find out that I could get rid of Total Media Theatre, that I only use to play BD's until now.&nbsp;Additional question that can fit on this conversation:My aim has always been to build a completely silent machine. I succeeded (now twice as I changed the content of the case completely), except for the BD drive.Anybody knows about a virtually silent BD drive that is also a slot-in drive? I would be keen to know.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Berns, post: 998305, member: 96677"] Hi Silentsea, My German is not at level to write. Still I wanted to share my experience related to BD's. Running a BD on an HTPC is not just a matter of choosing the hardware. It is a HW/SW combination. I own quite a number of BD's and when playing them with an intel DG45FC motherboard with E5200 processor, windows 7, Total Media Theatre 3, virtually none would play. I've been running AnyDVD HD resulting in all of the BD's to be running. That went well for about 3 years. (I found out that setting TMT3 to play Dolby in any kind of sircumstance would bring stability) Recently I got "The Lorax" for the kids, and the movie simply did not seem to be compatible with my PC. On TV matters, my satellite provider moved all channels - even SD ones - to H.264 coding, and there was lag between the images and the sound after that. Over the last week, I migrated to an ASUS P8H77-I motherboard with i5 processor, windows 7 and still Total Media Theatre 3. Today, the sync between the image and the sound is much better, and suddenly all my BD's run as a charm. Including "The Lorax". I'm using sony optiarc bc-5600s drive. It is a bit noisy at startup, though once the movie is on, nobody notices the spinning noise any more. For summary: with a good combination of HW and SW, it is possible to play all BD's. I'll be moving into version 1.3 after some functionality testing soon, and hope to find out that I could get rid of Total Media Theatre, that I only use to play BD's until now. Additional question that can fit on this conversation: My aim has always been to build a completely silent machine. I succeeded (now twice as I changed the content of the case completely), except for the BD drive. Anybody knows about a virtually silent BD drive that is also a slot-in drive? I would be keen to know. [/QUOTE]

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