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<blockquote data-quote="Blue Energy" data-source="post: 739183" data-attributes="member: 109162">I had reported, earlier, that installing XBMC had apparently screwed up my systems ability to play back blu-ray disks.&nbsp; This was not the&nbsp; case.&nbsp; In fact, it turns out that not all blu-ray disks use the same format - a possibility that hadn't occurred to me (nubie...).&nbsp; My first one, Blade Runner, uses 'VC-1' - which my computer has no difficulty playing back in spectacular fashion.&nbsp; The second one, Avatar, uses 'MPEG-4 AVC' - which my computer has no knowledge of whatsoever.&nbsp; Yet.This was the reason that it wouldn't play back.&nbsp; It played Blade Runner before I installed XBMC and after I installed it it wouldn't play Avatar.&nbsp; My subsequent conclusion that those facts were serially related, turns out to be an example of post hoc ergo propter hoc - a logical fallacy.&nbsp; In reality, it had nothing to do with XBMC.&nbsp; Just didn't want to leave that out there.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Blue Energy, post: 739183, member: 109162"] I had reported, earlier, that installing XBMC had apparently screwed up my systems ability to play back blu-ray disks. This was not the case. In fact, it turns out that not all blu-ray disks use the same format - a possibility that hadn't occurred to me (nubie...). My first one, Blade Runner, uses 'VC-1' - which my computer has no difficulty playing back in spectacular fashion. The second one, Avatar, uses 'MPEG-4 AVC' - which my computer has no knowledge of whatsoever. Yet. This was the reason that it wouldn't play back. It played Blade Runner before I installed XBMC and after I installed it it wouldn't play Avatar. My subsequent conclusion that those facts were serially related, turns out to be an example of post hoc ergo propter hoc - a logical fallacy. In reality, it had nothing to do with XBMC. Just didn't want to leave that out there. [/QUOTE]

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