Blu Ray player software

Skellz · 18 Mar 2012 at 17:29

Just installed a blu ray player into this pc from an old one and looking to find good software for it. I've installed the Cyberlink Suite it came with but the PowerDVD is only version 7 and has limited uses. For example no DVD upscaling and limited (if any?) surround sound support. Keeps asking me to upgrade to version 12 ultra, bugger that for £60-72.

I see Corel WinDVD 11 Pro and Cyberlink PowerDVD 12 Ultra are the latest from both companies, is there any others that I should be looking at? Anyone have any expience with these and which is best? I gather Cyberlink PowerDVD 12 is very buggy?

Cheers.

BarKeep · 18 Mar 2012 at 19:19

You could try VLC.

Azuse05 · 18 Mar 2012 at 21:02

VLC has bluray support now, but only unencrypted i.e. homemade and its experimental. They couldn't include the necessary files for off the shelf disks because they licensed, conveniently by the people who make the disks, to people who make playback software that requires regular licensing.

They did however point out on their forum that they can be put into vlc should someone want to

Anon-e-mouse · 19 Mar 2012 at 02:29

Total Media Theatre from Arcsoft is another.

And Media Player Classic apparently also does Blu-Rays in the same fashion as VLC (ie not at all from my personal testing).

Hudzy · 19 Mar 2012 at 13:51

TMT is my current favorite.

MPC and VLC aren't worth faffing about with if you just want a good, well presented, working solution to blu-ray.

bledd · 19 Mar 2012 at 14:45

I wish MPC-HC had a BR addon that you could buy, all the players that can play BR have truly terrible interfaces

Nexus18 · 19 Mar 2012 at 17:16

Follow this guide if you want the best quality there is, will only take 5-10 minutes max!

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=1357375

Nick1881 · 19 Mar 2012 at 17:26

TMT 5 is good, I found it started to stutter though.

I'm now using J. River Media Centre 17, it's fantastic. Only negative is it won't display the BluRay menu.