I don't know how or why it finally ended up working. So after trying different cables I decided to reconnect the original cable I was using and today I fired up CyberLink PowerDVD 18 and tried to play a Blu-ray that didn't used to load at all and all of a sudden it played, loaded, and ran flawlessly. This happened with at least two other cables that I tried (They were bought brand new to charge my PS3 controllers and the Blu-ray drive uses the same mini b connector on the other end as the PS3 controllers).This didn't happen with the original cable I was using. The PC would get signal and recognize the drive with the other cables that I tried but whenever I put in a Blu-ray disc, the signal would totally get lost and wouldn't come back. I tried swapping the USB cable for other ones but the problem got worse. PSU - Thermaltake 750 watt 80 Bronze Plus Any help would be appreciated.ĬPU - 2nd Generation AMD Trinity A8 - 5500 APU 3.2 GHZ Quad Core Processor (Turbo boost to 3.7 GHZ) All of my blu rays are retail disks and the same thing happens even if I play an old blu ray. I've tried upgrading the firmware for my blu ray writer but couldn't find a driver for windows 10 and device manager says that the latest driver is already installed. I've installed the latest display drivers for my gpu and all the windows updates. I'm using an external Samsung blu ray writer manufactured in 2014 connected via usb port. This tells me its able to at least read and play blu rays, but with some issues.

Sometimes it won't even load the blu ray disc or it would only read and play some movies. Whenever I'm watching a blu ray movie using cyberlink powerdvd 18 ultra, sometimes playback will stop in the middle of the movie with this error message 'CyberLink PowerDVD could not read a file on this disc, playback will stop' and the movie just stops playing.

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