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What is your favorite Blu-ray playing software?


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So the title pretty much sums it up. What is your favorite Blu-Ray software? Why? Is it because it is light and fast? More options?

I've been told that VLC can play Blu-Ray discs, which would be awesome. I always seem to get errors though. Anyone out there have any luck getting the BRDs to play through VLC?

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Yeah VLC barely works for blu-ray, with VLC I get a lot of playback stuttering. VLC also doesn't support the disc menus, just the .m2ts movie files AFAIK.

I've been using Nero Multimedia Suite (technically it's the Kwik Media program that does the blu-ray playback). It works fine but the interface is terrible, mostly been using it b/c I had already purchased the Nero suite. On the upside, it's never crashed, stuttered, or anything like that when playing movies.

+1 for AnyDVD HD too.

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Cyberlink not number one these days? Will be getting a new system next week and will be needing software myself.

You mean there is something else to use other than ArcSoft TotalMedia?

Yeah, Cyberlink is a piece of junk, and has been for quite some time. ArcSoft and AnyDVD HD make watching everything on the pc pretty easy. If you have a player laying around the ArcSoft will let you watch the HD DVD's as well. I have the Xbox 360's HD DVD play and a blu-ray internal drive on my PC, and being as Cyberlink dropped the support for the HD DVD that left ArcSoft as the only option, but what a great option it is.

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You mean there is something else to use other than ArcSoft TotalMedia?

Yeah, Cyberlink is a piece of junk, and has been for quite some time. ArcSoft and AnyDVD HD make watching everything on the pc pretty easy. If you have a player laying around the ArcSoft will let you watch the HD DVD's as well. I have the Xbox 360's HD DVD play and a blu-ray internal drive on my PC, and being as Cyberlink dropped the support for the HD DVD that left ArcSoft as the only option, but what a great option it is.

Forgive my being out of touch but other than dropping HD DVD whats wrong with cyberlink these days I was just going to open my wallet...

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I rather like how Cyberlink can use nVidia's PureVideo HD tech if you have a compatible video card. Does Arcsoft or AnyDVD HD support that as well?

I'm just asking because I rather like Cyberlink PowerDVD 10 for my DVDs and Blu-rays, but am always interested in something better, particularly if the video quality is improved.

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I rather like how Cyberlink can use nVidia's PureVideo HD tech if you have a compatible video card. Does Arcsoft or AnyDVD HD support that as well?

I'm just asking because I rather like Cyberlink PowerDVD 10 for my DVDs and Blu-rays, but am always interested in something better, particularly if the video quality is improved.

AnyDVD HD is just a decrypter, you use it together with PowerDVD, ArcSoft, whatever, to remove copy protection, region codes, HDCP, user restrictions etc.

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ArcSoft's TotalMedia does support Nvidia's PureVideo. Please correct me if I'm wrong but PureVideo seems to just be nvidia's software for hardware acceleration for HD video. Which is a good thing, but it is also done on nearly all video cards anymore, and the ones that support it do not really need special software to do it any more as its part of the driver/software package. At least on windows 7. The point of PureVideo was when the HD content was new. A lot of people didn't have the processor to handle HD content smoothly, I know my laptop has issues even watching 720p. So I'm not saying its not needed, but on new systems its not as useful as on a older system?

Hmm, that probably didn't come out the way I wanted it too, but I can't think of a better way of putting it at the moment.

Anyway, I've had both Cyberlink and WinDVD, and both of them have failed to play even dvd's for me before. Not to even get into blu-ray's. I've had major issues with both of those players, and if you have not, and like using them continue to use it. However, I've had my fill with both of those two and I'll never use them again. I've only had one issue with the Arcsoft player, and that was more of a driver issue with Creative than with the actual ArcSoft player. ArcSoft patched the issue, even while Creative sat on their thumbs.

Then again lets not get started on just how bad Creative labs is as a company and their near total lack of support with drivers. Now there is a product that I wish had some better competition.

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I play my Blu-ray movies on my PS3 but if I were to use my laptop I'd probably just use windows media player/center or the Acer software that comes with the computer.

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I play my Blu-ray movies on my PS3 but if I were to use my laptop I'd probably just use windows media player/center or the Acer software that comes with the computer.

wmp doesnt support blu-rays , i use power dvd it came with my bluray drive.

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wmp doesnt support blu-rays , i use power dvd it came with my bluray drive.

This might by why I just tried to play a blu-ray and it can't read it. Installing Arcade Deluxe now and will see if my blu-ray drive still works...

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I prefer to use MakeMKV's streaming feature in combination with VLC to play my Blu-ray discs. I have never had any of the stuttering/support issues playing Blu-ray's with VLC that were mentioned earlier in this thread. Plus, unlike the other options mentioned so far, this is a cross-platform solution. You can use it just as well on Windows, OS X, and Linux.

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I've used PowerDVD (as that's what came bundled) and I've never had any issues with it, plus it's intergration with Media Center is pretty convenient as well. Never tried TotalMedia Theater so can't really comment on that at all.

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Ok so apparently the blu-ray in my laptop does work. I booted up Win7PE and it didn't read, ejected the disc and reinserted and read it. Did the same in Windows 7 and it works great now, asked which region I was (which is weird because I used it before so it should already be set to North America). Acer Arcade Deluxe is pretty good.

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