CyberLink Power DVD 18 Ultra Blu-ray playback issues

[Eperez524]

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. Sometimes it won't even load the blu ray disc or it would only read and play some movies. This tells me its able to at least read and play blu rays, but with some issues. It plays dvds just fine. I'm using an external Samsung blu ray writer manufactured in 2014 connected via usb port. I've installed the latest display drivers for my gpu and all the windows updates. 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. All of my blu rays are retail disks and the same thing happens even if I play an old blu ray. I have the PC connected via HDMI port. Any help would be appreciated.

System specs

HP Desktop

CPU - 2nd Generation AMD Trinity A8 - 5500 APU 3.2 GHZ Quad Core Processor (Turbo boost to 3.7 GHZ)

GPU - MSI Radeon R9 390 8 GB GDDR5

 

HDD - Western Digital 1.0 TB

Operating System - Windows 10 Pro

Monitor - HP 2511x 1080p

Ram - 10 GB DDR3

Blu-ray Drive - Samsung SE-506 CB BD RE

 

PSU - Thermaltake 750 Watt 80 Bronze Plus

[Patrick3D]

That specific model of drive is known to have problems reading Blu-ray discs, the fix is to use a USB Y-cable that provides additional power to the drive. Something like this: https://www.amazon.com/USB-2-0-Splitter-Cable-Black/dp/B00VV24L7E/ref=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8&qid=1532712428&sr=8-9&keywords=usb+y+cable