Matrox M9128 can't play Bluay?

[jgg]

I have a Lenovo ThinkStatiuon S20. I'm running Win7 pro x64 with all updates. The machine has Matrox M9128 LP PCIex16 from which I push an NEC PA272W monitor and a Matrox M9120 PCIex16 that is connected to an NEC 2490UXi2 and an NEC 2190UXp. I have the latest Matrox drivers.

Basically, everything works fine, but yesterday I bought a Buffalo portable BluRay drive that came with CyberLink Power DVD10. The program tells me that my graphics card driver is not capable of playing BluRay.

I found this hard to believe, so I downloaded and ran a piece of software called the CyberLink BD&3D Advisor.

It, too, said my graphics card driver can't play BluRays.

Can anyone help me with this, please?

Thanks very much.

 

[RobCrezz]

Yeah sounds like that card doesnt have the decoding for blurays.

On the bright side you can replace it for another card that is capable for very little cost. Let us know the main function of the computer and a budget and we can suggest a replacement card.

 

[jgg]

Yeah sounds like that card doesnt have the decoding for blurays.

On the bright side you can replace it for another card that is capable for very little cost. Let us know the main function of the computer and a budget and we can suggest a replacement card.

Thanks very much for your reply. Yes, I've corroborated this now with Matrox here in Germany.

It seems unbelievable that this excellent, relatively expensive graphics adapter can't do something as simple as playing a bluray disk, but Matrox has been a niche player for a long time now, and they seem to know what their customer base wants.

As for replacing the card, I wouldn't think of it. I guess I'm a member of Matrox's "niche", and I've been one for over two decades. For my day in-day-out work, their role in my hardware configuration is exactly what I want.

Anyway, I have another Lenovo S20 with an nVidia card that plays the blurays just fine. It's not connected, though, to my NEC PA272W, but I have the cable I need, so I guess I'm all set.

Again, thanks for your help.

 

[RobCrezz]

I used to use Matrox in the days of the Millenium and Mystique also, they made good cards. But isnt that a pretty old card? Maybe it just predates the time that they were putting in hardware decoding for bluray.

I doubt theres anything that card can do that a modern £30 card cant do.

 

[jgg]

Thanks for your follow up.

The M9128 is a relatively "modern" card by Matrox standards.

I guess there are other good, cheaper cards out there, but I'd say Matrox still exists after all these years for a reason. I'm certainly not, though, going to do any "advertising" for them.

Thanks again.