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[Blu-ray on a PC] Help! I need a decent player app
Stormwatcher
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So I got this Samsung BD-ROM drive for my pc, because they're a lot cheaper than standalone TV players.
None of the free players worked with my disks (The Pacific, Fight Club), so I gave up and bought a Cyberlink PowerDVD 10 upgrade license (the shitty v7 one that came with the drive never worked). It worked bad, but worked.
Then I upgraded from a Radeon 4850 to a 6870 and PowerDVD stopped STARTING alltogether. It seems that Radeons from 5xxx up don't work with that piece of crap software.
So what can I try? KMplayer can't run my disks.
None of the free players worked with my disks (The Pacific, Fight Club), so I gave up and bought a Cyberlink PowerDVD 10 upgrade license (the shitty v7 one that came with the drive never worked). It worked bad, but worked.
Then I upgraded from a Radeon 4850 to a 6870 and PowerDVD stopped STARTING alltogether. It seems that Radeons from 5xxx up don't work with that piece of crap software.
So what can I try? KMplayer can't run my disks.
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Man I hate this whole Blu-ray business so much. Proprietary formats at their worse. You gotta pay and pay and pay and it never works very well at all, thanks to all the "security" bullshit.
Gimme open-formats any day of the week.
"Was cursing, in broken english at his team, and at our team. made fun of dead family members and mentioned he had sex with a dog."
"Hope he dies tbh but a ban would do."
I bought a OEM LiteOn BD-Rom drive for $40 last Black Friday.
For instance, the BDRom drive I got came with a copy of PowerDVD, works great, but every now and then I get a BD that doesn't play properly. A week or so later there's an updated version of the software that I have to install.
BluRays are a funny beast. To the average consumer the above sounds crazy, but in reality even BluRay players need firmware updates to play some of the newer discs that come out.
If you did buy a of PowerDVD, make sure that you are running the latest version of the one you got. The updates get released every couple months or so.
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Out of the box, I can't play disks on MPC-HC or KM Player. Then I installed ANY DVD HD, and bam, those two programs started playing BD movies perfectly.
That shows that the entire "you need to buy software" shit is just the proprietary standard FUCKING the consumer up the ass. AnyDVD HD breaks down the controlling bullshit and lets the PC work as intended. And I bought the fucking hardware and the fucking disk, and that's still NOT GOOD ENOUGH for those motherfuckers at Sony.
PowerDVD does'nt work with Radeons post 5xxx. Because it's fucking shit. and they're not gonna do anything about it. But hey, the same disks are decoded PERFECTLY when AnyDVD removes all the consumer-hostile SHIT they inserted in that shitty Blu-Ray standard. I payed a lot of money for that crap and now I'll have to pay another lot of money. Fuck the industry.
Yeah, I'm really pissed off at this absurd crap they're pulling, and i'm pretty furious about how Sony managed to create that pinnacle of bullshit and people reward them with their money.
I'm thinking of never ever buying a blu-ray ever again, I'll do every single thing I can to support DD solutions and kill physical media forever.
How can people buy the players and software and disks and rebuy that shit all over again and think it's fine? PowerDVD wants to make you pay again and again EVERY YEAR.
"Was cursing, in broken english at his team, and at our team. made fun of dead family members and mentioned he had sex with a dog."
"Hope he dies tbh but a ban would do."
And the simple fact that I need to pay another $90 for another one-year licence just because of DRM is freaking retarded. I already bought a bunch of stuff, all I'm actually paying is a "Sony-says-fuck-you-customer" fee. My current software (MPC-HC and KMplayer) is perfectly capable of decoding the video.
Thanks for the people willing to help, anyway.
I can brake the BD protection and just copy the disc minus the DRM and the AVC or VC-1 encodes will play just fine. I'm just glad they're not using giant mpeg4 files.
And no Sony is only part of the BDA (Blu-ray Disc Association) that created Blu-ray & the DRM. In fact the original BD DRM was less restrictive, the studios asked them to make the DRM stronger.
"Was cursing, in broken english at his team, and at our team. made fun of dead family members and mentioned he had sex with a dog."
"Hope he dies tbh but a ban would do."
By format I mean the entire Blu-Ray thing. Not just the video and audio encoding. That includes the DRM.
I don't want to have work to watch the movies. I want to pop the disk and watch. Is that too much too ask? I already payed the studios and license holders.
And the only reason I have to pay for a stupid bloated program, instead of just watching movies on KM Player or MPC-HC is the whole licensing model. If they didn't make me pay 3 times for the right to watch a movie (hardware license, software license, movie license), I could use any program. There is nothing in Arcsoft TMT or PowerDVD that would make me buy them over using perfectly good free apps, other than the whole licensing bullshit.
Maybe PowerDVD 9 works fine on all radeons, but 10 doesn't. And the OEM version that came with the Disk Drive didn't work at all. So I was forced to upgrade.
Finally, Sony is the one major driving force behind the entire mountain of feces. They're the ones pushing it.
Blu-Ray is giving me grief and making me pay for the protection of THEIR interests. Besides high res and top sound, which can be done with free software and open formats, what does Blu-Ray give me? Online HDef digital movies are a billion times more interesing.
And that is why there's so much piracy for movies. BLu-Ray is so chock-full of customer-hostile crap that it drives people away. I rue the day I got that stupid drive to watch the Pacific Blu-Ray my dad got me.
lotta hostility in that post!
I'm going to not use it.
And it's gonna cost me US$ 100 (ok, $70 if I buy it till tomorrow, woopy)
Please note that I'm not directing it to any poster here, it's just such a fundamentally wrong situation, consumer-right-wise. Once again proprietary formats (and I mean format as a whole, not encoding) screw with us.
Just imagine you are forced to buy a special monitor and a special program just to open image files, say, gifs.
ugh
i hate everything that cyberlink does as a company. they are immense assholes
Don't assume bad intentions over neglect and misunderstanding.
And whenever you have to update softwares or firmwares, it's because they upgraded the whole security crap.