Any suggestions for a BluRay Media Player? Doesn't have to be free. Just has to work well.
Any suggestions for a BluRay Media Player? Doesn't have to be free. Just has to work well.
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I know PowerDVD by Cyberlink is capable of it as is WinDVD by Corel. There doesn't seem to be any significant freeware presence yet. I put a Blu-Ray in my parents comp then found out that you need one of those two. Something to do with the licensing and Sony not wanting to share with MS.
TheMainMan
I've used PowerDVD since it came for free with my drive. It's ok, but personally I didn't like it that much...too bulky...got in its own way too much. The reason there's not any free software for playing BD's is because the AACS decryption license still costs a good bit and is still kept separate from the hardware licensing.
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I do not recommend PowerDVD at all. I'd pick WinDVD over PowerDVD at all. I have a few movies, but AVATAR refuses to work with PowerDVD 8 (what my drive came with) even though it should be working fine. Later versions play it, but have issues with BD-Live. WinDVD worked with both BD-Live and my copies of Avatar.
I found Total Media Theater 5 and it is pretty awesome. Resource hog tough. Makes Windows go to Basic because of the video.
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If anyone's interested, I just found a better solution.
It's called DAPlayer, and it's the only blu-ray player I've found that's actually free!
http://www.digiarty.com/
From what I can find in reviews and such, apparently they update their compatibility on a weekly basis, so some new titles might not for for a week or so after release, but imo that's outweighed by three things:
1) It's free.
2) It doesn't kick my computer into 'Basic Mode' like the version of PowerDVD that I have does (f***ing annoying, and it looks like crap).
3) It's a hell of a lot lighter on system resources than the version of PowerDVD that I have.
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I have completely different problems with PowerDVD.. On my computer it doesn't doesn't bump my dispaly to Basic Mode and when watching a BRD it uses less then 15% CPU. Memory is higher than other programs running but I still have PLENTY in reserve.
My BIGGEST problem with PowerDVD is all I want is a DVD/BDR player. I don't want it to scan for music, or photos, or even other videos. All I really want it to do is PLAY BLURAYS. I don't even really need it to play DVDs, I have other better music players, as well as photo viewers.
I will have to check that one out for sure.