Blu-Ray Player

Stelly

Stelly

Stelly

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Hey Guys,

Searching around the forum and I cant find any advice. I need a Windows 7 Blu-Ray DVD player (free) for Blu-Ray disks... I'm not sure that I need to do to get it working, so I would appriciate any help I can get with this!

Cheers,

Stelly
 
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No Free PC players I'm afraid :(

Option 1: Purchase PowerDVD/WinDVD

Option 2: Buy AnyDVD-HD to use in conjunction with VLC/MPC-HC/Zoom Player.

Option 3: Use MakeMKV (currenty free under BETA) to rip main video + audio into an .MKV container to then playback in VLC/MPC-HC/Zoom Player
 
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CyberLink PowerDVD 9 Ultra is available on a well known games site (Don't know if Im allowed to mention it?) BUt is 25.99 which is the cheapest Ive seen it, it used to be about £75 when I got my first PC blu ray player
 
james.miller said:
do this.
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Will this not have issues with AACS/BD+?

I'm not talking from a legal point of view, more of a technical one; I thought AnyDVD HD was the only way to remove BD+ currently?

edit: answered my own question with Google: "# Reads Blu-ray discs protected with latest versions of AACS and BD+"

Nice :D
 
MKV is a container, as such nothing is really done with the audio and video - its identical to the original. MakeMKV allows you to strip out the audio and subtitle track you dont want and wrap it up in an mkv for just about anything to play.

being bit-identical to the source file, the resulting mkv's produced from blurays are typically pretty big - between 15gb and 35gb isnt uncommon.
 
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Phil99 said:
Will this not have issues with AACS/BD+?

I'm not talking from a legal point of view, more of a technical one; I thought AnyDVD HD was the only way to remove BD+ currently?

edit: answered my own question with Google: "# Reads Blu-ray discs protected with latest versions of AACS and BD+"

Nice :D
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MakeMKV can decrypt BD+ and AACS without the need for AnyDVD. In fact they recommend you don't use MakeMKV in conjunction with AnyDVD as it can slow the ripping process. MakeMKV is regularly updated to handle new AACS keys & BD+ updates :).

Gtiracer said:
Does this retain the same quality as the original HD output?
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As long as you don't re-encode the video and audio then yes, the quality is identical. As said above an .MKV is just a container file. All MakeMKV does is remove the main video + audio stream and dump them in an .MKV file.
 
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