blu ray software for films ?

jamjar · 15 Feb 2012 at 20:22

Hi All Can anyone tell me apart from Powerdvd 11 ultra what other blu ray/ dvd software will play blu ray films ? thanks :confused:

i,ve tried VLC ,Windows media ,Media classic player, and none work

DX24 · 15 Feb 2012 at 22:29

Hi Jamjar

Try this http://daplayer.soft32.com/ it's called da player and plays blu rays on pcs also free.

marv · 15 Feb 2012 at 22:35

totalmedia theatre

Meatball · 15 Feb 2012 at 22:51

VLC 2.0 RC

. Best off it's free!

Anon-e-mouse · 15 Feb 2012 at 22:51

Watch out for the added programs with that DaPlayer.. It's got an IE toolbar with search addon that replaces your current search provider, unless you click advanced and tell it not to (which then stops the program installing from what I can tell).

It's also got an program that spams you with offers... classy.

Blu Ray wise, I use Arcsoft's TotalMedia Theater 5.

Django x2 · 15 Feb 2012 at 23:07

MPC-HC here. Did use TMT for a while but too buggy

Philtor · 16 Feb 2012 at 00:29

Any DVD HD. It's superb software. Yes I said 'superb'

insejn · 16 Feb 2012 at 09:09

VLC 2.0 releases this week with BluRay support and the program is free so no purchases/cracks needed.

Anon-e-mouse · 16 Feb 2012 at 09:58

When I tried the VLC 1.2.0 RC last night, Blu-ray wasn't working for me. And judging from the forum, it didn't work for others as well.

bledd · 16 Feb 2012 at 10:42

Although it will never happen, I'd pay for MPC-HC to fully support blu ray, with menus.

I use anydvdhd, with CorelWinDVD

I don't rate WinDVD, PowerDVD or TMT. They're all way too clunky, WinDVD is the lesser of the evils. Plays any disc I try. -anydvdhd is helping it though

Some discs just don't play properly in MPC-HC / VLC because of the way they are mastered

insejn · 16 Feb 2012 at 13:19

Anon-e-mouse said:
When I tried the VLC 1.2.0 RC last night, Blu-ray wasn't working for me. And judging from the forum, it didn't work for others as well.

VLC 1.2 and VLC 2.0 are two different things tho.

Anon-e-mouse · 16 Feb 2012 at 20:36

insejn said:
VLC 1.2 and VLC 2.0 are two different things tho.

My mistake, I was using the 2.0 RC, and Tron:Legacy BR didn't work, and neither did Suckerpunch.. Although both work fine in Totalmedia Theater

insejn · 17 Feb 2012 at 08:45

Anon-e-mouse said:
My mistake, I was using the 2.0 RC, and Tron:Legacy BR didn't work, and neither did Suckerpunch.. Although both work fine in Totalmedia Theater

Oh, that blows

Hope they have better stuff for the real release then.

Totalmedia Theater is my favorite still too, especially with the borderless window it looks sleek. Costs a bit tho.

jamjar · 17 Feb 2012 at 09:09

insejn said:
Oh, that blows Hope they have better stuff for the real release then.

Totalmedia Theater is my favorite still too, especially with the borderless window it looks sleek. Costs a bit tho.

Hi There what do you mean by borderless windows ? :confused:

insejn · 17 Feb 2012 at 10:39

jamjar said:
Hi There what do you mean by borderless windows ?

The little window border that goes around all programs under Windows OS, that usually is a static color.
They don't include that in the video playback in windowed mode, so it's just pure video without having a white/whatever colored border around the video itself.

Rensin · 19 Feb 2012 at 19:41

bledd. said:
Although it will never happen, I'd pay for MPC-HC to fully support blu ray, with menus.

I use anydvdhd, with CorelWinDVD

I don't rate WinDVD, PowerDVD or TMT. They're all way too clunky, WinDVD is the lesser of the evils. Plays any disc I try. -anydvdhd is helping it though

Some discs just don't play properly in MPC-HC / VLC because of the way they are mastered

does Corelwindvd not support DTS-HD? ... i know there site says it does but i have tried a few movies with windvd and none of them show as playing the DTS audio track.

linktoinsanity · 20 Feb 2012 at 18:26

Meatball said:
VLC 2.0 RC . Best off it's free!

Blu-Ray error:
This Blu-Ray Disc needs a library for AACS decoding, and your system does not have it.
Your input can't be opened:
VLC is unable to open the MRL 'bluray:///H:/'. Check the log for details.

So it's useless for this disc.

BarKeep · 20 Feb 2012 at 23:41

linktoinsanity said:
So it's useless for this disc.

http://forum.videohelp.com/threads/...-Watch-encrypted-Blu-rays-directly-in-VLC-2-0

King Damager · 20 Feb 2012 at 23:46

If VLC 2.0 Does do Blu-Ray I'm going to be in heaven! I can finally uninstall powerDVD...

The alternative btw is MakeMKV + VLC. Put Blu-ray in, rip off blu-ray, play film as an MKV. Only problem is a standard Blu-ray is about 25GB...

kd

ArnieRambo · 21 Feb 2012 at 00:17

Blu-rays have played on MPC for god knows how long