Drosophila Posted October 24, 2011 Share Posted October 24, 2011 I just got myself a blu-ray drive for my desktop, and thought I would want to try but it seems you need special software for that (and not just vlc or mpc ) and for some reason no disc or software came with it!! Does anybody have any experience regarding this... I don't want to pay 80-100$ dollars for software that is totally unacceptable! ed: I have only found one free program DAPlayer and my anti-virus software want me to open it a sandbox... and it fails to read the movie... sucks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Imba Posted October 25, 2011 Share Posted October 25, 2011 I am using BS Player PRO but i play blu-ray formats from hard drive, works perfectly. I am not sure could it play form player... you can check on their site: http://www.bsplayer.com/bsplayer-english/home-page.html BS player should download every codec you need after installation. Type that in search, maybe you can find solution Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
needle ninja Posted October 26, 2011 Share Posted October 26, 2011 K-Lite codec pack is what you need, I think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drosophila Posted November 2, 2011 Author Share Posted November 2, 2011 Thanks guys, I also found a combination of VSO player and DVDFab passkey 8 to work (both freeware), but the playback was a bit shifty (lagging)... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Penzoline Posted November 2, 2011 Share Posted November 2, 2011 Odd, if you buy a drive it should be just plug and play. What brand was it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drosophila Posted November 7, 2011 Author Share Posted November 7, 2011 Odd, if you buy a drive it should be just plug and play. What brand was it? That was what I thought as well, but that is not the case. And yes the drive was easy to install, only problems was getting all the wires to fit . I can read CDs, DVDs and none commercial Blue-rays. It is the issue of playing commercial blue-ray discs that is challenging. It was the same problem for DVDs before the encoding was cracked. So when you buy a drive you have to be sure that it comes with a player, and I didn't check up on that. The problem also often is that the player provided (or so I have heard on the interwebs) is only valid for a short period and then they stop working Maybe there is no legal alternatives that really works yet?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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