Is There a Way To Play Blu-Ray With Win 7 Home Edition

[lordpuffer]

If not, since I have a blu-ray player and no software, what can I use? I have Win 7 64 bit.

 

[Zidane24]

If not, since I have a blu-ray player and no software, what can I use? I have Win 7 64 bit.

Do you have Home Basic or Home Premium?

 

[lordpuffer]

Home Premium

 

[Zidane24]

Try to play the Blu-Ray in Windows Media Player

 

[lordpuffer]

I'll have to try tomorrow and let you know......Thanks

 

[jimbo45]

If not, since I have a blu-ray player and no software, what can I use? I have Win 7 64 bit.

Hi there

Didn't you get some software when you got your player -- I've got an LG BD device which came with a Blue ray version of PowerDVD -- works fine in W7 X-64 although I haven't got a monitor or a decent enough video card to actually see HD output on full HD mode. The blu ray disc play fine however (in normal mode).

I only got the BD device because of the large capacity discs - but since you can now get ultra cheap pocket sized usb disks with up to 500GB on them I think the BD device was actually a waste of time and money.

I think Windows Media player might have a problem with the DVD encryption for blu ray DVD's -- I couldn't get them to play - but I didn't really try a lot since power DVD which came with the hardware worked straight OOB.

If I want HD TV I'll watch it in comfort on my large LCD sitting on a on a really nice sofa with a nice glass of scotch in my hand. The last thing I'll want to do is have a computer anywhere near it.

Cheers
jimbo

 

[lordpuffer]

It came with Cyberlink software, however, when I loaded it on Vista when I had it, it didn't work. I had to pay for Cyberlink support to get them to send me a link to some software that would work. I cannot find the link since I installed Win 7. I would have to pay them for support again, which I refuse to do. Any ideas?

 

[ba5ik]

Media Player Classic Home Cinema its free and will play your Blu-ray discs

 

[lordpuffer]

Thanks!

 

[lordpuffer]

Media Player Classic Home Cinema its free and will play your Blu-ray discs

I tried it with a Blu-ray disc and it wouldn't play it....Does it need a certain codec? I know that my player is working fine. I also tried it in Windows Media Center and it said that I need the correct "application" to play it, which I figure is a codec. Also tried it in WMP 12, and it wouldn't even recognize the disc.

 

[Frostmourne]

Try VLC media player, but the best way would be to pay for Cyberlink.

 

[Shark007]

MPC-HC can play blu-ray but some conditions need to be followed.

1st of all, the official release cannot play a blu-ray disk.
You need to use one of the latest SVN builds avalable HERE.

Also, you need to use software such as AnyDVD to decrypt the copy protection.
Then be sure the Internal Source Filter, MPEG PS/TS/PVA is enabled.

Lastly, it will only play the main movie, there will not be any access to menu's or extra features.