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    Blu-ray software

    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
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    Re: Blu-ray software

    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.

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    Re: Blu-ray software

    You can bring back support for hd-dvd with power dvd 8, it was put it but since the format was dropped shortly before release they decided to disable it, google it if you want to re enable it.
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    Re: Blu-ray software

    But you have to continue to re-enable it aftr updates etc. TMT doesn't do that.

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    Re: Blu-ray software

    The latest Power DVD is pretty good and has a great DVD upscaling feature. You get version 7 ultra with the purchase of the LG Blu ray drives. I'm wondering if Windows 7 can burn blu ray discs natively will it also play them?
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    Re: Blu-ray software

    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.

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    Re: Blu-ray software

    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.

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    Re: Blu-ray software

    Quote Originally Posted by Lourdes View Post
    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.
    There still aren't any free ones... Not until Slysoft bring out the Slyplayer.

    Having an AVC decoder in VMC/7MC won't help as not all BDs are AVC and there all the audio codecs to consider etc.

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    Re: Blu-ray software

    Apparently VLC 1.0 supports Blu-Ray files - but can't decrypt AACS (so needs something like AnyDVD-HD)

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    Re: Blu-ray software

    Quote Originally Posted by directhex View Post
    Apparently VLC 1.0 supports Blu-Ray files - but can't decrypt AACS (so needs something like AnyDVD-HD)
    There's no mention of disk playback that I can see - would be interesting to see if it can in fact play a disk, as you say along with the likes of AnyDVD HD.

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    Re: Blu-ray software

    Quote Originally Posted by directhex View Post
    Apparently VLC 1.0 supports Blu-Ray files - but can't decrypt AACS (so needs something like AnyDVD-HD)
    Playback of the video content, or full navigation and menu support?

    I would suspect it is the former.

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    Re: Blu-ray software

    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
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    Re: Blu-ray software

    Quote Originally Posted by Funkstar View Post
    Playback of the video content, or full navigation and menu support?

    I would suspect it is the former.
    from what i undestand, youll need to remove the AACS and play just the video content so yes, the former

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    Re: Blu-ray software

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    from what i undestand, youll need to remove the AACS and play just the video content so yes, the former
    So then all it's going is demuxing and playing the h.264 or MPEG-2 stream then. Seems a stretch to call that "BluRay support"

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    Re: Blu-ray software

    Quote Originally Posted by Funkstar View Post
    So then all it's going is demuxing and playing the h.264 or MPEG-2 stream then. Seems a stretch to call that "BluRay support"
    h.264 is a huge spec, and covers a plethora of different encoder settings - a number of them only fairly recently gained any kind of support. And there's audio - all those new formats are the main sticking point.

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    Re: Blu-ray software

    Quote Originally Posted by directhex View Post
    h.264 is a huge spec, and covers a plethora of different encoder settings - a number of them only fairly recently gained any kind of support. And there's audio - all those new formats are the main sticking point.
    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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