Free or low cost Blu-Ray software

[DexterS12]

Title says it all. I've had it with PowerDVD's bloat. Every few years newer BR will 'break' and I'm forced to buy a new version to play them on my PC.

Any suggestions on good free or low cost BR playing software.

 

[DexterS12]

Sorry for the bump, any suggestions?

 

[zesun]

The free versions are even worse than powerdvd. Most of the time when i try to get a blu-ray to play on my pc, i have to give up... can't even get vlc to play blu ray. It's a damn right nightmare for blu ray on pc.

 

[dgingeri]

It's not free, but I've always enjoyed Nero's BluRay player. As far as free ones, there's VLC Player. http/www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html It's a little spartan, with no keyboard controls, but stable and reliable, with little bloat.

 

[zesun]

It's not free, but I've always enjoyed Nero's BluRay player. As far as free ones, there's VLC Player. http/www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html It's a little spartan, with no keyboard controls, but stable and reliable, with little bloat.

VLC is a great video player, for all but blu ray. (and it does have keyboard controls). - For it to even have blu ray support, you need to download extra files and that doesn't even work over half the time... it's a total mess.

 

[dgingeri]

oh, really? I hadn't tried it on Windows, only Linux, and even then only a couple times. Ah, well. It was a suggestion.

 

[fry178]

just install K-lite codec pack (basic + player is enough) and open the files straight from the bd.
i never cared for any software player beyond that, plus i dont have to skip thru ads/trailers, as i can directly start the movie..

 

[DexterS12]

I actually have k-lite full but whenever I try to open a BD disc, it says 'cannot render file'