Why aren't there any free BluRay player applications? I'm using the (awful) cyberlink software that gets bundled with just about every BR drive, and I hate it. You'd think VLC and even windows media centre would handle BR movies by now, so what is the obstacle? I assuming some bloody stupid and restrictive license deal.
BD uses encryption key, that's the reason why you hardly find free softwares. Once a key is discovered and published, it always ends being revocked .... 'til a new one is published. It's a cat and mouse game: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AACS_encryption_key_controversy
Total Media Theatre used to be good and then it got suddenly withdrawn with no further support :angry: Other than PowerDVD and WinDVD, I don't think there any other BluRay players out there - probably because of Sony's and Cinavia's demands and license fees.
VLC has some libs in development. Didn't give it a try since I do not have a BD player, but here it is: http://www.videolan.org/developers/libbluray.html
That's been bubbling under for a couple of years now - it started off as a kind of hack where you could copy a couple of AAC DLLs across and the VLC player would work for a while, but it was very hit and miss - more miss than hit. However, it looks like they've made a more concentrated effort with it now. I'll have a look, thanks.
I've read that BR discs has a database of revocked licence / player. So I guess that the older the disc is, the more likely it will work, unlike recently issued disc that will be more restrictive.
I've been using MakeMKV and Handbrake. MakeMKV makes a very large rip of the blu-ray, then Handbrake makes it a reasonable size (I usually shoot for 8-12Gb). It's an obnoxious solution, especially because many of the Blu-rays have 20+ "titles" that are all the same length, which the content companies put on there so you get lots of junk if you try and rip them (scenes out of order, etc.). The most convenient (but still generally honest) solution still seems to be downloading the movie from a torrent site after you purchase it instead of ripping it. Not that I'm recommending anyone do that, because, you know, piracy. But it's sad that these companies work so hard to punish honest people when the pirates still get the best experience and highest quality. Of course, the content distributors probably wish that you would buy the Blu-ray, DVD, and streaming version all separate, and use their proprietary software, and serve you relevant adds streamed online before letting you watch the movie your purchased. So yeah, just rip it after purchase. Heck, my wife and I will rip rented movies, watch them, then delete the file after since there's no free blu-ray playback software. It's annoying and stupid, and the content companies wonder why people pirate.
What he said If you watch movies hassle free, you're a pirate. Us "normal" buyers end up getting shafted.
It's been a long time since I had to look up a word, but "Succinct" was new to me. Thx! How is that pronounced, "Sussinkt", "Suksinkt" or"Sukkinkt"?
Quite! Watching a sufficient* number of 'merkin TV ruins one's pronunciation! *I just wanted to use the word 'sufficient'. Sorry**. **I'm not actually sorry. I am sad that TMT6 is no more though, especially as I bought two licences...
well I've always pronounced it suss-sinkt, since before I started watching 'merkun tellie programs... I'll amend my internal vocal database accordingly. Thanks guys!
Arcsoft suddenly pulled the plug not long after releasing TMT6. No announcement, no warning. Just pulled it from its list of products and stopped supporting it overnight. Rumours abound as to why they did this, but with no word from Arcsoft they are still just rumours. My money is that they had difficulties with CInavia.
