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Finally put a blu-ray disc player in my PC rig. What software does /g/ recommend for watching blurays on PC? I've heard there's some encryption shit that requires a program to read the shit.
Something as minimal as possible would be great.
>>52019891
>What software does /g/ recommend for watching blurays on PC?
Spoiler: they all suck
VLC can sort of half-ass its way to getting an image moving.
Your other choices are pieces of shit software like PowerDVD.
Through only Blu-ray software that ever worked decently for me was PowerDVD, and it's a piece of shit that felt clunky and slow to use.
>>52019891
>rig
RIG RIG RIG RIG RIG RIG RIG
>>52019891
Makemkv
>>52020527
Just torrent PowerDVD. It's bullshit we should need to pay $100 dollars for a fucking software to play movies.
>>52019891
>2016
>optical media
>>52020554
Make sure to get an old or hacked version of PowerDVD. The new versions wants to insert its tentacles into every orifice of your OS.
>>52020538
VLC will work but you can't use menus.
>get old laptop from customer who doesn't use it anymore
>some huge old Vaio with C2D cpu and two fucking 250GB HDDs in RAID
>blu ray drive
>install Windows 8.1 on it, Windows 10 kept giving BSODs
>find the only blu ray movie in my house
>unable to play it with any free software
Why.
>>52020667
They found a way to make more money
Leawo bluray player. Menu navigation is a bit buggy but it's free and gets the job done.
DONT use power dvd, it is objectively worse than mpc in terms of video quality.
Get any dvd HD, which removes the blu ray encryption, and then use mpc to navigate the file system and select each individual title.
The downside is you can't use a menu so you have to navigate to each file.
Is it worth all this for quality? Yes, otherwise you wouldn't have brought a blu ray player.
>>52020552
This + Hand break
>>52020760
>anydvdHD
MakeMKV is superior AND you don't need to pirate it.
>>52019891
I use Dvdfab and just rip the bdmv.
Then I can just play in the media player of my choosing.
>>52020915
>ripping a bluray just to play it
jeez, I thought this place had some sense
AnyDVD HD for on the fly decryption, done.
>>52019891
>2001 + 15
>people still use laser disks
>people still go to a store and literally BUY a movie on a plastic ring
>>52022183
Storage is not an issue so ripping it is more convenient. You don't need the disc afterward if you want to play it again.
>>52022247
>>people still use laser disks
Pretty sure laser disc isn't still used by anyone mate.
>>52019891
Rip it with makemkv. If you want, you can just rip it raw and encode it later with ffmpeg or whatever, or just rip it and encode it with whatever preset makemkv offers. Watch it with mpv or some other media player of your choice.
Wow op, I've a blu ray drive from 2008 and I used it maybe twice for movies since the local cable company just rolled out 100mb ( up from phone company's whopping 8). I haven't bought a bd rom since torrents are so much faster and quality is pretty close.
>>52022258
That's just retarded waste of resources. That's like making your own meal at a restaurant. Pop it in, decrypt in 1 min, watch. Most of the time, the movie's not worth storing. If it is, either rip it afterwards or just download a copy.
>muh legality
ripping BR is legally questionable already due to DMCA, that's why the various players and software is so restricted. Either be a good goy and do things their way or grow a brain and use fucking TECHNOLOGY to get around these braindead limitations.
>>52019891
>literally 2k16
>using discs
lmao
>>52022413
>That's just retarded waste of resources.
>using empty space is a waste
>>52022339
Depends on the display. <24" LCD? yeah fine no prob. I've got a 50" plasma and honestly can tell a difference even if the torrent is 15gb.
That said, that kind of quality is really only for movies you really care about. For blockbusters and capeshit, I pretty much just stick to ~3gb rips. It's not like those things get any better.
Windvd hands down if you want just a bluray player with none of the media sharing shit most programs come with.. Powerdvd is bloated as fuck.
>>52022453
>time is not a resource
>processing power is not a resource
>I'd rather rip every single BR I see rather than just the ones I want
>I weigh 2000lbs so I don't waste the space in my mom's basement
I never knew how bullshit blue ray was until I read this thread. No wonder it flopped.
>>52022569
It didn't flop though.
I use them to burn blu ray torrents onto disc so I can save space. Have hundreds of gigs saved this way, and tons of high quality movies.
>>52020527
Vlc uses your computers color management scheme, whereas powerdvd has its own (in my experience)
Would recommend powerdvd
>>52020667
Windows 10 gives BSODs because it requires UEFI.
Word of warning: PowerDVD is one of the most notorious sources of malware on torrent sites. If you must pirate it, make sure you get it from truly reputable source.
I'm giving MakeMKV a try right now, friends. I'll let you know how it goes.
>>52019891
I rip them and mux them into an MKV. Fuck optical media, holy shit.
dumphd
>>52019891
almost 2016 no cheap bluray burners yet what is this shit
makemkv libaacs + mpv
>>52023364
>Fuck optical media
Optical media is nice to be able to loan to young people who don't understand you can torrent movies without the MPAA boogeyman coming down on them.
sorta unrelated but has anyone got a ps3 blue ray drive running on Linux.
You don't need to rip the movie to watch it with makemkv
>watching movies on a computer
And no, lying about plugging your computer into your TV is not a valid response
>>52023466
>not watching movies on the best color representation panels you own
And don't give me that shit about display size, it means absolutely nothing.
>>52023466
>lying about plugging your computer into your TV is not a valid response
>being this oblivious about your plebdom
If you don't have a desktop PC connected to your computer you shouldn't be allowed to post on this board.
>>52023575
I'd rather watch a movie on a 40" TV with great color reproduction than a 24" monitor with near-perfect color reproduction.
Size does matter. That's why people love cinema so much. Most cinemas look rather shitty compared to a good home set-up.
>>52019891
mpv + ~/.config/aacs/KEYDB.cfg
I haven't been able to make mpv play BD+ encrypted BDs using libbdplus, so for that I use makemkv to stream the BD.
>>52023661
>Most cinemas look rather shitty compared to a good home set-up.
Do they really? Most of the cinemas I've been to have used pretty nice projectors. I'd complain about stupidly bass audio first.
>>52023466
you don't have a computer plugged into your tv?
>>52023466
>claiming superiority over anything while using a standalone dedicated bluray player
>>52023904
They do.
The focus on many projectors is not good, and cinema operators have a tendency to try to preserve the life of the lamp in the projector by running it at less than 100% power. This results in a dim image.
A home cinema can be meticulously calibrated and set up just right, and will usually give a sharper, more vivid image. I've been in some owned by a few friends and they are by far the best looking experiences for watching movies in my life.
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>>52023342
It worked perfectly! Took about 30 minutes to rip a 29.1gb blu-ray (The Last Samurai). The resulting folder can be opened using MPC-HC and plays without a hitch.
There is no loss of quality since there is no re-encoding or remuxing. The only thing removed is the encryption.
>>52024158
you can stream it directly
>>52024158
>30mins to rip a movie you'll turn off in disgust after 10mins
>>52024175
Only with VLC.
>>52019891
Buy a ps4 and connect it to your monitor
>>52024195
The Last Samurai is bretty gud i don't know what you're talking about
>>52024302
Make sure the monitor supports HDCP before doing this.
>>52020667
>2 fucking 250gb hdds in raid
But that's awesome, way better than the popular 1 5200rpm 500gb hdd that's very common in mid-range laptops.
>>52024501
Yeah, and you could easily replace them with two cheap 120gb SSDs and have a nice amount of speed with the two SATA I ports running at maximum transfer rate.
>>52024535
It might have sas instead of sata though, and I'm not sure if sas ssds exist.
>>52024619
SAS on an old laptop? Nah.
>>52024628
Idk tbqh. Sas was invented in 2005/2006, so why not. Sony has always been edgy and 'different'.
>>52024619
sas is backward compatible with sata anyway
>>52024717
Oh, well I thought that in laptops they are likely incompatible because the way laptops are sometimes built.
>>52022433
disks*
>>52025314
>"correcting" someone who got it right
>>52023642
i dont think you have a desktop pc connected to your computer, so you first
