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After about a week of screwing around, I now have the perfect solution: CyberLink PowerDVD21 software. It's a beautifully designed and written app which plays all DVDs and BluRays on my external drive flawlessly, right out of the box. VLC Player, 5kplayer, and two other commercial apps did not work,...

It's a "NOLYTH" external player:
https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B07T9NSD5R? ... ct_details
plugged into a USB3 slot directly on the laptop using the short appx 40 cm cable which came with the drive.

@HItchhiker -- thanks for all your help on this. I found that excellent post you link to some time ago and did everything shown under the "How To (Windows)" heading, using the most recent builds under "Builds". That was what allowed me to play BluRay discs, but it didn't enable D...

Well, you didn't post a full log The log I posted was complete. The last four lines loop indefinitely. the choppy playback can usually be fixed by changing the codec Thanks, I have been experimenting there and it doesn't change the playback. I've been trying other suggestions like changing the buff...

I'm making progress. My drive was indeed set to the wrong region, and it's very simple to change that. Go to Device Manager, select the drive, Properties, DVD Region, and pick your country. You can apparently do this four times with a given drive. Device Manager told me my drive was set to region 2....

Hmm, I wondered about that. The log says "DVD disk reports itself with Region mask 0x00f60000. Regions: 01 04", though, and region 1 is US (which all my disks are). Does the log mean that regions 1 and 4 are masked off?

Thanks, @Hitchhiker, I had a different version. This doesn't help though -- same problem, same error log.

I downloaded and installed the latest version of 64-bit VLC Player for Windows 10 yesterday, and found that it wouldn't play legitimate, purchased DVDs or BluRay disks. I found a procedure for installing libaacs.dll along with several other steps, after which BluRay began to work. I found some proce...