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Pioneer BDR-207D weird issue. Help?

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Do I have a Pioneer BDR-207D in my PC. It is a couple years old but honestly hasn't seen a lot of use. I stuck in a blu-ray disc the other day and it wouldn't read it correctly. The drive sounds like it is working hard with lots of motor movement. CD audio and DVD movies play fine.

I just tried another disc and the same problem. So I tried a few more and also had the same issue. I put in a BD-R that I burnt with files on it and have no issues copying files from it to my PC. I also burnt a new disc without any problem and it reads fine in my HTPC with the same type of BDR-207D drive.

I updated the firmware and movies still won't play. I'm using Windows 10 and TotalMedia Theatre 6. I also tried a trial of PowerDVD with the same playback issues.

I just downloaded MakeMKV, which I've never used before, and I'm now ripping a movie that my system won't play. I'd ripping at 8.5M/s [2.0x] and I have no idea what the normal speed should be, but I assume that would be fine for playback.

Any ideas what might be wrong?
 

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W10 could be incompatible still. Might be better to go back to W7
 
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Ok... just to add to the weirdness. I tried loading the movie while it was ripping. Then it loaded after trying to about 20-30 seconds. It was playing but was choppy. I stopped the ripping process and loaded software again and the disc loaded right away. Popped it out and put in a different movie and it wouldn't read. Started ripping it and then repeated the previous steps and it loaded fine. It's almost like the laser needs to get warmed up... so odd.

Thoughts?

W10 could be incompatible still. Might be better to go back to W7
Yeah maybe... might be the drive failing too but everything else seems fine. Playback after trying to rip the disc also works flawlessly too. Very odd. I'm not having any other issues with Windows 10 and I pretty much never use movies on my pc anyway so I'll live with it, just wondering if anyone else experienced similar.
 
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Try using a cleaner disc on it. EX.: Memorex Blu-ray Lens Cleaner

Try WinDVD pro... works for me. Here you can download a free trail: WinDVD Pro 11
If you do decide on it... check around, I got my key from Newegg on sale, it cost me nothing with the rebate.
 
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