Free Blu-Ray Program Win 7?

[MahtXL]

VLC sadly refuses to play them, ive googled and theres a sketchy not legit method to get some sort of hacked support. NO THANKS. Got this fancy blu ray drive in my pc and windows doesnt come with something to play them? What a joke. Need a free program to watch blu rays, im aware of power dvd, its not free, and im not paying to use something ive already purchased.

[Tim Drake]

Try MPC-HC

[Dredgy]

VLC sadly refuses to play them, ive googled and theres a sketchy not legit method to get some sort of hacked support. NO THANKS. Got this fancy blu ray drive in my pc and windows doesnt come with something to play them? What a joke. Need a free program to watch blu rays, im aware of power dvd, its not free, and im not paying to use something ive already purchased.

 

Suck it up princess. (That was meant to be sarcastic, sorry if it seemed rude)

 

BluRay is proprietary and Microsoft doesn't have a license. Most BluRay drives have a copy of PowerDVD or similar included. 

At least you can pay and get it. You're really screwed if you're on Linux.

[vembutech]

Check this Aurora Blu-ray media player for windows.

[dalekphalm]

VLC sadly refuses to play them, ive googled and theres a sketchy not legit method to get some sort of hacked support. NO THANKS. Got this fancy blu ray drive in my pc and windows doesnt come with something to play them? What a joke. Need a free program to watch blu rays, im aware of power dvd, its not free, and im not paying to use something ive already purchased.

Personally, I would normally highly recommend:

Arcsoft TotalMedia Theatre

 

However, it seems that Arcsoft has discontinued the package.

 

If you can find a boxed copy online (Amazon or something), I highly recommend picking it up. It's basically the best Blu-Ray playback software in existence.

 

Now, with that in mind. Let me introduce you to MakeMKV:

http://www.makemkv.com/

 

This program allows you to rip a Blu-Ray, uncompressed, into an MKV file. The whole process takes about 10-20 minutes per movie (largely dependent on the speed of your particular Blu-Ray drive). The program strips the encryption out of the file as well, so you won't have any issues there. Warning: Most Blu-Ray movies are between 8-25GB in size - it varies per movie. If that takes up too much HDD space, then I recommend compressing them using Handbrake, with a RF (Constant Quality) setting of 18 or 20.

 

The program does NOT remove Cinevia protection though, as that is extremely difficult (nigh impossible without quality loss) to remove. However, as long as you play it using a program that doesn't support Cinevia, then you're totally fine.