I've tried to persuade the various developers of some of these open source projects to add menu support using the library the VLC folks have been developing, but they refuse claiming no one (meaning themselves) cares about menus. TMT5 wouldn't bitstream the HD audio formats after a video card change so it was useless. I got finally sick of the limitations of MPC-HC after Arcsoft pulled out of the market. Myself, I finally broke down and bought a standalone 3D capable Blu-ray player for a very good reason. VLC has been doing a lot of work to get working menu support, but AFAIK it's in beta. All in all, it's a unsatisfactory solution IMHO. So, as long as you're not watching TV shows or multiple episodes on one disc content, and don't encounter movies with forced subtitles that aren't burned into the video stream it will work okay. It also doesn't properly select audio tracks and subtitles because that's done by VM commands courtesy of the menus (that it doesn't support). It can also be used to rip a Blu-ray to a storage device fully, but if you're going to do that then MakeMKV is still the preferred recommendation since it'll be in MKV files you can play immediately - this utility just rips it into the folder structure in a 1:1 copy.Ĭlick to expand.The catch is you don't get menus and it only plays the longest title on the disc by default, which may not be what you want to watch. Realize it's not a Blu-ray player, it just provides real-time decryption of the contents of a Blu-ray disc for playback using some other player software.
The only way to know is install it (not like it's costing you anything) and then use it till you encounter a disc it won't decrypt or handle I suppose. I only bought 'em 'cause they were cheap, like $2 each, and they're movies I like and thought it would be cool to grab 'em and rip 'em to a format for my smartphone with HandBrake and that process worked without issues using a laptop Blu-ray drive (Panasonic UJ240). The catch is that some Blu-rays simply won't be decrypted for various reasons, it's a random thing and the only "fix" is to buy the product but I personally haven't had issues - the 4 Blu-rays that I happen to own (I said I don't own many) all play just fine.
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