Im using PowerDVD to play my BD's on my pc, it works ok but i wondered if anyone knew of anything thats better?? free if poss
Im using PowerDVD to play my BD's on my pc, it works ok but i wondered if anyone knew of anything thats better?? free if poss
Q6600 G0 @ 3.44ghz, Asus P5k Premium WiFi
4gb XMS2 Dominator PC2-8500, Asus Radeon HD 5770
LG GGC-H20L BD\HD DVD + 3 DVD Drives, Seagate 500gb
WD 500gb + 1tb, WinTV-HVR1300, BenQ E2200HD
There are no free BD players out there. Anything you see that is free will just be a new front end and require PowerDVD or one of the other comercial players installed as well.
TotalMedia Theatre is supposed to be good. It also retails support for HD-DVD, which PowerDVD dropped.
I'll be using TMT when I get my HTPC up and running again (drive died) as it interfaces with MediaPortal very well with a community written plugin.
But you have to continue to re-enable it aftr updates etc. TMT doesn't do that.
Burning a disk and playing them are two different things. I've not read anywhere that W7 will have native BD playback, though it is possible it might make it's way into the final release (unlikely though as an RC would only have bug fixes applied before release).
There are quite a lot of different licensing costs for BD playback, I doubt MS will want to pay for that for each user.
All you need is AnyDVD HD then you can use the free players for BD and on W7 probably media centre/player as there's an MPEG4-AVC decoder now.
With Windows 7 and PowerDVD 9 with the latest patch installed it adds a link to use PowerDVD in the MC part of 7. Not tried PowerDVD 7 yet tho, will give it a go soon. Not tried to rip them to hdd yet so I use the disks to play the films, menus included
Q6600 G0 @ 3.44ghz, Asus P5k Premium WiFi
4gb XMS2 Dominator PC2-8500, Asus Radeon HD 5770
LG GGC-H20L BD\HD DVD + 3 DVD Drives, Seagate 500gb
WD 500gb + 1tb, WinTV-HVR1300, BenQ E2200HD
Fair point, I give you that.
However all that is really just h.264 support, not specifically for BluRay. To me, BluRay support would mean that it actually handled the navigation and interactive elements. But to do that you are going to need to include a Java VM right? Or is there a traditional DVD type menu structure in there as well?
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