Minimum requirements for a 3D Blu-ray playing HTPC ?

[escrow4]

Is it too late to suggest just getting a dedicated Blu-Ray player?

As much as I love HTPCs, the current crop of Blu-Ray software is absolutely dreadful and not worth the trouble. You'll fight with it to get it updated for new keys practically every time you use it.

Couldn't you just lossless remux/strip the main audio and video stream into an .mkv container and use MPC-HC? Who needs blu-ray software? And if you install something from dvdfab that strips the DRM so you can MPC-HC to play the main .mt2s file anyway.

 

[davidm71]

Just wanted to get in on the conversation in that a few months ago I built a htpc based on the H85M platform with a haswell G3258 dual core pentium processor but 3D 1080p 120hz playback is just not possible! Spent half a day staring at the screen scratching my head. The thing is i read you need support for Intru 3D by intel HD graphics and the G3258 doesnt have that built in. So I have two choices use a discrete video card, or just buy a 3d bluray player. I have an old GTS 450. Might test it out tomorrow. Good thing is its low power. Third choice get a new processor so the moral of story don't go cheap on the processor even though it may have the MHz to play blurays..