powerdvd 7 ultra (on vista ult 64) that i got with my blu-ra isnt playing the audio via spdif. the amp is only picking it up as pro-logic. for both blu-ra's and dvds.

if i play a normal dvd through media-centre it works. help isnt too helpful.

any ideas?

You need version 8 or later for it to work

You also need a registry hack for it to work in media centre..
MS didn't like losing the BD vs HD war so haven't done anything to assist the end user

Aside from an Xbox-360 external drive, MS weren't really involved in the "war". They still make a buck from any disc that uses the VC-1 codec so why would they care?

More likely they haven't done much towards BD support in media centre because they're working more at promoting downloadable formats.

thanks herm. ill have a look a the trail version of 8 to see if it works. i thought they had an mce plugin?

Sorry Dan,
Your correct. Native intergration with Vista appears to have been too much work considering it was only an option at the time. Be curious to see if 7 has it (too lazy as yet to try it out myself).

MCE plugin worked tho it was a 3rd party thing and pretty hit an miss for most people due to weird codecs everyone install/uninstalls