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benzeman
30-09-11, 11:38
Is there any free blu-ray movie playing software (preform a plugin for VLC!).

[1st post in optical!]
El Wayneo
30-09-11, 12:19
None that i know of.
Lynx
30-09-11, 18:41
No plugin for VLC, although it can play decrypted blu rays as far as i know. No free players though, lots of blu ray drive comes with power dvd bundled though
Hades
30-09-11, 22:35
Yep, no free software out there due to Sony selling access to the disk protection to companies and hence why they then charge us. The two top programs are Cyberlink PowerDVD and Arcsoft Total Media Theatre. I use Total Media as Cyberlink screws me over with loads of crappy programs I don't want. There's not much differance between the two of them except Total Media doesn't spread itself all over your system or pester you about upgrades/sales.
Turbo Porridge
03-10-11, 13:44
Nope because of the blu-ray codecs being charged bySony :(
ThunderFlash
13-12-11, 07:12
So when you buy a Blu-Ray drive for your computer, you're more than likely gonna have to shell out more to use Blu-Rays?


Pathetic :lol:

I was gonna get one myself, not now!
Techtalknews
13-12-11, 08:50
Normally you get something with your drive iirc
gray.woodford
13-12-11, 09:47
anyone looked at this?
http://www.digiarty.com/
free player that support bluray people
gray.woodford
13-12-11, 09:55
anyone looked at this?
http://www.digiarty.com/
free player that support bluray people
just installed it at work and seems ok so far but i dont have a bluray drive to test it, has quite a few codecs built in
jaff90110
13-12-11, 16:25
Do they have like a free trial software come with the blu ray drive?
Nifty
13-12-11, 16:28
Do they have like a free trial software come with the blu ray drive?

With mine I got a two generation old version of cyberlink and it constantly bugged me to buy an upgrade.

Yarr was my chosen option.
Hades
16-12-11, 02:07
I'll try out the free software with my blu ray drive and see how it goes. :)

Edit: Tried it, doesn't work. Probably will play home made blu ray, but I tried 2 of my blu ray films (Chronicles of Rid**** and Die Hard 4.0) and had no luck. Wouldn't play by pressing play, instead i had to navigate through the disk files and run the biggest size file. Rid**** it just gave me an error and said it couldn't play it. For Die Hard it just stop responding.
gray.woodford
16-12-11, 10:40
I'll try out the free software with my blu ray drive and see how it goes. :)

Edit: Tried it, doesn't work. Probably will play home made blu ray, but I tried 2 of my blu ray films (Chronicles of Rid**** and Die Hard 4.0) and had no luck. Wouldn't play by pressing play, instead i had to navigate through the disk files and run the biggest size file. Rid**** it just gave me an error and said it couldn't play it. For Die Hard it just stop responding.
thanks for letting us know, been testing the software but i dont have a bluray drive to test it with myself
Themanhunt
17-12-11, 15:07
No worries, PowerDVD is free software...if you get my gist.

Oh snap, looks like this thread is locked :p