Best Blu-ray and DVD watching software for Windows 10?

Cromulent · 29 Jun 2016 at 10:46

I'm moving house and unfortunately won't be able to take my PS4 or Xbox One with me to watch films on since I won't even have a TV so I need to be able to watch films on my computer which thankfully has a Blu-ray drive built in.

Can anyone recommend some software for watching Blu-ray and DVD films at all for Windows 10? I have no idea what is consider the best these days for things like that.

bledd · 29 Jun 2016 at 12:18

MPC-BE
or
VLC
or
Kodi

In my experience, AnyDVDHD is a must for stable playback.

PS3 is an awesome blu ray player, I use this instead of the media pc. Blu ray and PC is a bit of a rough relationship.

yashiro · 29 Jun 2016 at 13:22

http://www.leawo.com/blu-ray-player/

Stoner81 · 29 Jun 2016 at 13:51

Other half has had all sorts of problems with this and she ended up buying PowerDVD which was on offer at half price and she loves it!

Stoner81.

Cromulent · 30 Jun 2016 at 12:28

Stoner81 said:
Other half has had all sorts of problems with this and she ended up buying PowerDVD which was on offer at half price and she loves it!

Stoner81.

This looks like the best option available to me I think. Thanks for the tip. I'll probably get this along with a subscription to LoveFilm because I can't take all my DVDs and Blu-rays with me.

Rannoch · 1 Jul 2016 at 21:20

MPC had a far better picture than PowerDVD, can be grainy and that's all over their forums.

Bone9 · 1 Jul 2016 at 23:22

Use VLC and get dvdfab passkey lite which enables you to watch blu ray on vlc.

http://www.dvdfab.cn/passkey-lite.htm

bledd · 2 Jul 2016 at 07:14

powerdvd is a disaster of a program

Cromulent · 2 Jul 2016 at 11:26

Bone9 said:
Use VLC and get dvdfab passkey lite which enables you to watch blu ray on vlc.

http://www.dvdfab.cn/passkey-lite.htm

OK. I'll try that then. Thanks

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Bone9 · 2 Jul 2016 at 12:01

Cromulent said:
OK. I'll try that then. Thanks .

No probs

jpaul · 2 Jul 2016 at 12:13

Although I had used dvdfab with mpc-hc, people critique it as being a me-to of anydvd, and also apparently they will never update it for blue-rays using the new aacs 2.0 content protection.
But maybe anydvd will offer (as they did when slysoft system closed) to take dvdfab license holders on board for a nominal cost.

These systems all need access to an online database to open the blu-ray the first time it is used which is an inconvenience (so an airplane is out) and I have not understood their legal status - they are only enabling you to view what you have bought already, but the fact the providers have reverse engineered techniques to open the disks is controversial and the studios would sooner have them disappear ... anyone explain ?

Rannoch · 2 Jul 2016 at 14:02

BoatyMcBoatface said:
powerdvd is a disaster of a program

Yep, and they keep bringing out new versions with all the new add-ons, instead of fixing this moist important issue, the picture quality.

I tried Powerdvd version 15 on a few computers hooked up to my projector with a 200" screen, and MPC beats it every time.