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Best Windows program for playing Bluray (I don't mind paying)
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Originally posted by craig1 View PostI got a Bluray player just after that format won the war, it's quite a decent Sony box that we got because it was on offer and had just come top of one of those reviews in a home equipment magazine. We just don't use it these days as it's utterly abysmal for the more recent Bluray discs, I timed it taking nearly 4 minutes to get from disc in to playable and then I accidentally hit the "home" button which restarted the whole process. There are no firmware updates available for that box. At bits of very high bandwidth playback it has occasional framedrops and is clearly not up to the job. I gave up with the format as I'm too tight to get a newer version and I can get just as good a quality experience from downloading the content from, say, iTunes store.
The all regions Bluray player I use in my lodgings is fine for most blurays. But when I tried playing the Hobbit Part 1 on it, it was whirring and clicking away like a grandfather clock about to strike the hour, and the picture was slowing and pausing almost non-stop.Work in the public sector? Read the IR35 FAQ hereComment
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Originally posted by OwlHoot View PostInteresting to see confirmed my suspicion that blurays are not all created equal and the more recent ones with higher definition content cause borderline "el cheapo" players to struggle or even flake out. But as Bluray is a container format, I suppose that's only to be expected.
The all regions Bluray player I use in my lodgings is fine for most blurays. But when I tried playing the Hobbit Part 1 on it, it was whirring and clicking away like a grandfather clock about to strike the hour, and the picture was slowing and pausing almost non-stop.Socialism is inseparably interwoven with totalitarianism and the abject worship of the state.
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Originally posted by OwlHoot View PostAfter buying The Hobbit part 2 (The Desolation of Smaug) on Bluray, I found my supposedly top-of-the range Blueray player struggling in parts, and freezing at one or two points which required a power cycle before it would continue.
I'm pretty sure this wasn't due to dust on the disk, as the thing was brand spanking new and squeeky clean. So it seems its processor simply can't keep up with the high-definition data (15 Gbytes worth).
However, when trying to play the thing on my Alienware laptop, none of my programs would play it at all! So in summary, I wondered what the best most advanced Bluray player program was these days that would support this evidently new format (or the new copy protection the disk may incorporate).
To give an indication of the film's format on the disk, the latter comprises folders AACS, BDMV, CERTIFICATE (and a desktop.ini file)Socialism is inseparably interwoven with totalitarianism and the abject worship of the state.
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