I bought my laptop in 2010 and did not specify Blu-ray player. I have just fitted a Sony Blu-ray writer and using Pinnacle Studio 15 I have created a home video Blu-ray disc which plays on my stand-alone Panasonic player. However, although I can play various High Definition files I cannot play a Blu-ray disc on my laptop, and realising I needed Blu-ray player software/decoder I purchased Nero 12 Platinum which incorporates Nero Blu-ray Player. However, this does not work and Nero are telling me that my video graphics does not meet their specification.
According to my BIOS the graphics is provided by on-board Intel GM 45 chipset and the Nero spec says I need exactly that or above. According to the Intel website, the GM 45 does indeed support Blu-ray playback, but it needs something called PAVP to be enabled to PAVP Lite. It says that this should be done in the BIOS, but I do not have a setting for this in my BIOS. Intel also says some manufacturers do not provide the option in BIOS and implement it by default, but I do not know if this is the case for my laptop. Is there any way I can check?
The other thing I have checked is the graphics driver. Using my Service Tag, Dell are saying that I have the latest video driver.
Can anyone help me to get this working please?