Software for Blu Ray Playback

[TurnX]

Recently dropped on a blu ray drive into my PC and I am trying to figure out what is my best option as far as software for playback. Currently I use Media Player Class Home Cinema x64 to play everything else, but it seems it does not yet support Blu Ray. So what are my options? Also are there any good free options yet?

 

[corkyg]

Hopefully, WMP 12 will support the H-264 codec required for Blu-Ray. Until then, there are few options, Corel and Cyberlink being the most used. I have not seen any free options yet.

 

[shortylickens]

Does VLC have any plans to add the required codecs?

 

[Mark R]

It's not that mpc-hc and vlc are missing CODECs - they both have the full set o blu-ray CODECs (VC1,MPEG-2 and H.264). The problem is that they are missing the menu playback capability which is very complex and java based.

If you load the movie .m2ts file from the BDMV/STREAM directory, then both VLC and MPC-HC will play it fine (as long as it is not encrypted)

If it is encrypted, pretty much 100% of movies, then only an authorised app with HDCP compliant graphics card will touch it (unless you have a third party decryptor app - like anydvd-hd).