Windows not recognizing bluray disc again

[Chiakuu]

Hello - hopefully this is the right area. This is a recurring issue I have fixed before on previous Windows installs for this PC, but I can't seem to fix this time. I have a blu-ray drive that I know works - it worked on a Mac and this PC before resetting it, and it recognizes dvd discs. The problem comes in when I try to put in a bluray disc - it spins, it stop. it spins, it stops. It does not recognize it.

 

Windows in device manager seems to give this bluray drive cd/dvd drive drivers constantly - I checked, and thats what it gave this drive. I think i fixed it by changing drivers last time - but Windows doesnt have any blu-ray alternative drivers, and I cannot find any online.

 

Any ideas? This has been an issue for quite a long time, I had fixed it like 4 installs ago and then it broke again. Man i sure do love Windows

[Guest]

There is no Blu-ray driver as all OS's simply consider it a DVD-drive.

What matters is the application along with the drive itself that plays Blu-rays.

 

In yet another genius move by Microsoft, even the newest version of Windows Media Player doesn't support Blu-ray

 

Fortuitously there are a number of Blu-ray players available in the Microsoft Store.

 

I believe it was the now discontinued Groove Music Player, previously installed in Windows was able to play them.

[Chiakuu]

25 minutes ago, Thomas4 said:

There is no Blu-ray driver as all OS's simply consider it a DVD-drive.

What matters is the application along with the drive itself that plays Blu-rays.

 

In yet another genius move by Microsoft, even the newest version of Windows Media Player doesn't support Blu-ray

 

Fortuitously there are a number of Blu-ray players available in the Microsoft Store.

 

I believe it was the now discontinued Groove Music Player, previously installed in Windows was able to play them.

I have some applications that are supposed to recognize Blurays and work with them, but none of them recognize it anymore - they did last time I had this work. Hell, once upon a time windows would load the bluray as a disk i can drag stuff onto, but now it just spins stops spins without loading it into the OS at all. I know this drive works and has worked before

[TomChaai]

From what I remember macs don’t work with Blu-ray. 
Maybe the drive no longer recognizes Blu-ray Discs due to age, but plays DVDs fine?  

[Chiakuu]

2 hours ago, TomChaai said:

From what I remember macs don’t work with Blu-ray. 
Maybe the drive no longer recognizes Blu-ray Discs due to age, but plays DVDs fine?  

No i believe I had gotten it working with blu-rays on mac, it was an older mac with some blu-ray software. I had it working on Windows at least, but I have no idea how i got it to work so long ago