Windows 7 and Bluray movies (a.k.a. head-on-desk-grrrr)

I finally got all the pieces for my new computer, including the Bluray drive that can do DVDs and CDs as well. Frustratingly, Windows 7 can't do Bluray movies. Even my trusty VLC-Shark007 combination that has never failed me before, can't do it. I've googled, and was hit with lots of information over-load that seemed focused on buying programs that can play the proprietary formats of my bluray collection. Blasphemy! There is freeware for everything. but the search-overload from google became too much, and I humbly come here asking for help. What are you using to play your bluray movies on your PC?

 

The most recent version of K Lite Mega codec pack and VLC Media Player version 1.1.9 work here. VLC was updated again today but havent tried it yet, the last two were a no go for me so uninstalled and went with "The Luggage". Cyberlink PowerDVD works well but is proprietary, and would not shut down totally here without opening task manager and ending two processes. CoreAVC is also proprietary but worth looking into.

 

Give Pot Player a try - I don't have BD so can't test it here - but it's replaced all the other players etc. for me in the last few months.

 

Thank you both! I've been pulling my hair out over this!

I'm on my way out to dinner-date with The Guy, but I'll give your suggestions a try at the latest tomorrow and report back.

 

I have now tried both PotPlayer and VLC 1.1.9, and neither worked. i used KLite Mega pack on both, and then tried Shark007 codecs on both, but my computer still refused to play the bluray disks movie I tried. Either I'm up against some very lame DRM, or I need different codecs.

 

Window 7 can't even do DVD's by default, the Beta (and all Win Beta's back to XP) could.

What you need is to check your disc with another machine? Unfortunately, Blueray's not so popular that you can drop by a neighbor for 10 minutes to check it out.

 

I know that all the disks I tried work in my PS3's bluray player, but that only tells me the disks are fine and not much else.

 

It only takes one bug in the Windows Registry to cause the issues you (don't) see, I don't have the hardware to test with you.

The PS3 belongs to one of the DRM control freak makers, it'll be built-in to firmware or hardware, really hard to translate anything from that to a computer to enable any kind of troubleshooting. Your discs must be good, they play on PS3 - how do we find, or fix, whatever the Windows problem is <shrug>, tough call.

 

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