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Free software for watching blurays

  • 28-10-2010 3:37pm
    #1
    Charlie Haughy
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,855 ✭✭✭


    Hi, ive got a dell laptop with a blu ray drive and have been looking for good free software to use to watch blu rays on. Any reccomendations? Something stable that works with windows 7 also please. If its not free let me know and ill look online for a version of it :pac:

    Thanks


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  • #2
    AlmightyCushion
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 35,125 Mod ✭✭✭✭AlmightyCushion


    I don't know if they do but try vlc and media player classic. They play everything else so they might play blurays.


  • #3
    fudgez
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 150 ✭✭fudgez


    I know that currently VLC does not support this but they are working on it apparently the problem is that none of the VLC devs actually have a bluray drive!


  • #4
    fudgez
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 150 ✭✭fudgez


    to quote from the VLC forums
    Sony (the creator of the BluRay Movie standard) is a very secretive company. They won't give you the standards for the creation and playback of bluray movies unless you buy a "license". Hence, the menu format for bluray movies, BD-J (the programming language for the intractive features) and the playback method for copy protected movies are all secrets of Sony, revealed only to afflicate companies.
    So, the only viable solution for the opensource community is to reverse engineer (guess) the standards trough "unofficial" methods, hoping they 'll come up with a working software for playback and creation of bluray movies.

    Till then, although opensource programs will be capable of storing various data on BluRay recordable discs, they won't be able to create and play Bluray *movies*, at least not 100%

    Till now, the best possible solutions is DumpHD along with VLC for playback, and TSMuxer for authoring.

    Or you can be a good customer and waste money for PowerDVD, thus producing profit for Cyberlink and Sony...

    sorry mate your gonna have to buy software if its urgent and it is exspensive too 63euro for a years license of anydvdHD


  • #5
    Charlie Haughy
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,855 ✭✭✭Charlie Haughy


    Ahh that sucks... ah sure may see if I get powerdvd somewhere then ;)


  • #6
    Overheal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,729 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    So Dell sold you a laptop with a BluRay drive and no way to use it?

    That makes sense.


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  • #7
    RolandIRL
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,924 ✭✭✭✭RolandIRL


    is PowerDVD not on the laptop? just checked on my Dell win7 laptop and it's there. just open start and type powerdvd. there's no start menu shortcut on my machine though i can't remember is that cos i deleted it ages ago, cos i never use or by default.


  • #8
    Charlie Haughy
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,855 ✭✭✭Charlie Haughy


    Overheal wrote: »
    So Dell sold you a laptop with a BluRay drive and no way to use it?

    That makes sense.
    Oh yeah I should have mentioned really that the laptop came with some software called dell media centre or something, which is meant to play blu rays, but whenever I put in a blu ray to play, it says I need to download a important component. I do that, then install it, and it says it again :confused:
    Plus the software is slow and clunky so im looking for another one.
    whiteman19 wrote: »
    is PowerDVD not on the laptop? just checked on my Dell win7 laptop and it's there. just open start and type powerdvd. there's no start menu shortcut on my machine though i can't remember is that cos i deleted it ages ago, cos i never use or by default.
    No power dvd didnt come with this. I may get powerdvd 9 somewhere.


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