Some Do, Some Don't...

[Denon Marantz]

I have used VLC for some years and have always found it a brilliant piece of software, but I am having trouble with Blu Ray playback.

I have VLC 2.2.2, running under Windows 7, on a PC (I7 3770k / 8Gb ram / AMD 7850 GPU )

I have installed KEYDB.cfg and libaacs.dll files as advised in the "Blu Ray support" thread.

Some Blu Rays play... No trouble with say, "Elysium", and "Interstellar".

Some Blu Rays don't, e.g. "Total Recall" (2012 Colin Farrell version), "Cloud Atlas"(2012), "Ex Machina"(2015), "Jupiter Ascending"(2015)...

and when they don't it usually says "no valid processing key in AACS config file".

Now if you go to http://vlc-bluray.whoknowsmy.name/ and open the file, KEYDB.cfg you can manually search it and I have found different problems in different cases. For example: "Total Recall" (2012 Colin Farrell version) has several listings, but still doesn't play whereas "Cloud Atlas" has no listing at all, so does that explain why it doesn't play? Or is there some other problem?
"Ex Machina" is listed but with a different suffix, in the cfg file as EX_MACHINA_UPB1 but is Identified by VLC as EX_MACHINA_UPB7 so that might explain it, but "Jupiter Ascending" is listed exactly as VLC identifies it JUPITER_ASCENDING and still is not recognised.

Am I doing something wrong? Or does the key database need refreshing, or what?

I see from the length of the Blu Ray Support thread that this is an ongoing problem.

Love DM

[Mauser]

I do not know where you are, but perhaps it is the region code? Default Blu-ray region set in VLC is "B", which is Europe. Americas is "A". Most Blu-ray do not have region codes, but maybe those do?