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There is a way to watch Blue-Ray moves with VLC. Here is a guide on how to set it up: https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?t=105955

if I remember correctly, it is a bit buggy, and won't allow you to use the menues.

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I've owned a blu-ray disc drive for a while now, and when I installed it I only wanted it to write 25+ GB to discs, but now that I've upgraded to a 2560X1080 monitor I want to start watching movies. The thing is, I understood after I bought the ASUS blu-ray disk drive that the blu-ray codecs came separately and that I'd have to either buy a disc drive that came with drivers containing the codecs or I'd have to purchase software with the codecs, and all of this  because the blu-ray standard was made by Sony. However, some friends told me that I didn't actually have to buy the codecs to watch blu-ra movies on it. Can someone please clarify what I have to do to start watching blu-ray movies on my computer? If I do need to buy something, is there a free alternative?

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Welcome to DRM. The system that gives pirates the better experience. I was pretty bummed too when I found out I needed proprietary software to play brds. Some drives come with a free version of such software (usually with some ads).

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There is a way to watch Blue-Ray moves with VLC. Here is a guide on how to set it up: https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?t=105955

if I remember correctly, it is a bit buggy, and won't allow you to use the menues.

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Wait... Those things still exist?

Yup. They are pretty handy if you like to play old videogames that require discs. Also good if you like to keep physical discs instead of flash drives or external hard drives.

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Lol. I haven't purchased a single blu-ray. Prefer streaming and/or digital copies. 

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All in an effort to "protect" their IP. It's why I rip the movies on my devices now and watch it on any machine in the house as opposed to dealing with the drm nonsense.

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Had the same problem. Got a $20 bluray drive but the programs are usually $40-60 and free alternatives suck or are difficult to set up. returned it and got a ps3 for 100. ps3 is better anyway (for bluray playback) because it outputs 5.1 surround easily, which is difficult-ish for a computer, and controller-friendly navigation. 

 

buuuuuutttt..... i have no idea if itll take advantage of your monitor. I highly doubt it. Maybe with monitor zoom settings? 

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There is a way to watch Blue-Ray moves with VLC. Here is a guide on how to set it up: https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?t=105955

if I remember correctly, it is a bit buggy, and won't allow you to use the menues.

I've been trying to make this work but VLC always says it doesn't have the aacs library. the directions didn't make much sense, so I'm going to look up a video.

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I use Digiber BD ripper to get a 1:1 copy of the movie and any extras that I want. 

 

http://www.digiber.com

 

It has options to rip the content to digital copies of different formats.

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