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My feature request for vlc media player is to have blu-ray disc playback.

Currently we can't playback blu-ray discs so you should add this feature as lots of new computers have blu-ray drives now.

You should include all the codecs and decoders needed to play the blu-ray discs.

Unfortunately none of the VLC developers have a Blu-Ray drive yet (at least not that I know).

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Hi,
the little AnyDVD HD takes care of it ( http://www.slysoft.com/en/anydvdhd.html ).
Takes all the protection on the fly. Also makes .iso with or without protection. What we need now is VLC to play it

So yes, I support the request.
Thanks,
mbo

viewtopic.php?f=7&t=29632

Hi,
the little AnyDVD HD takes care of it ( http://www.slysoft.com/en/anydvdhd.html ).
Takes all the protection on the fly. Also makes .iso with or without protection. What we need now is VLC to play it

So yes, I support the request.
Thanks,
mbo

playing it is easy. The .evo (or whatever it is) files are just ordinary mpeg files. Sometimes they may be h.264 or VC1, but no big trouble.

regarding what dionoea said, I fully agree. This is a community supported project thats not as widely concidered important as other stuff like Firefox and most distros. How can someone expect the team to get a PS3, Xbox 360, Blu Ray Drive, HD-DVD drive, apple TV and a 200 inch home theater ?

Hi,
what I do is I make an .iso using AnyDVD HD and than I mount it as a drive using SlySoft free utility . System see it as BD player and I can play it with PowerDVD. Correct me if I'm wrong, but all what is needed is few .iso files ?
Thanks,'mbo

AnyDVD HD isn't available for Mac or Linux. .evo files are for HD DVD, not Blu-ray.

AnyDVD HD isn't available for Mac or Linux

Hi,
true. However, iso images made by AnyDVD are protection stripped. Therfore can be played on any OS.

mbo

There are many issues with blu-ray support. A major obstacle I could foresee would be having to provide support for java: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blu-ray_Di ... re_support

1. MPEG-2 encoded movies might work. TS parsing is bit broken for other codecs so AVC and VC-1 prolly won't work. (search Windows forums to find out complains)
2. TS support will hopefully get better at some point. But for Java, decryption or other difficult stuff ain't coming anytime soon (and AFAIK nobody is creating support for those).

Last message is 2 years old. Are there any developments or plans?

Bluray Player: PowerDVD.

VLC support M2TS, you can decrypt and rip bluray main movie to m2ts.

Are there any plans to include blu-ray iso playback feature?

That might come at some point (in sense that if you open unencrypted Blu-ray ISO with VLC, the movie will start).

Bluray Player: PowerDVD.

VLC support M2TS, you can decrypt and rip bluray main movie to m2ts.

The whole process on how to Play Blu-Ray on Mac (or PC) using VLC is explained http://sites.google.com/site/ultimatema ... nts/step-4.

In short terms : You use MakeMKV Beta to create a Streaming Server (creating an .M2TS URL) an then you use VLC to play the streamed URL.

No need for riping the Blu-Ray discs and it work great.

This would require a lot of hard disk space for us collectors.

If you really want to play Blu-Ray movies on your Linux desktop, install makemkv and convert only the movie to MKV format and then use VLC to play it.

Read this full details.
http://www.makemkv.com/forum2/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=224

I use makemkv to convert my blu-ray into mkv, so I can play it on my BoxeeBox, than use my blu-ray player and get my discs scratched.

VLC 1.2 will play Blu-Rays.
Nothing fancy so far, no menus, BD-J or BD-Live++ crap.

It will work with encrypted blu-ray and some encrypted blu-rays.

Wonderful news!

VLC 1.2 will play Blu-Rays.
Nothing fancy so far, no menus, BD-J or BD-Live++ crap.

It will work with encrypted blu-ray and some encrypted blu-rays.

great! will it support play direct from decrypted .iso file? or only from disc and iso mounted with tool like daemon tools?

No iso support.

I've been trying to play Blu-Rays with VLC; I have version 1.2.0-git-20110718-1810 Twoflower, but it does not acknowledge that there is a disk in the drive.
Am I doing something wrong?

Yes, 20110718 is way too old...

I have only used ISO files to watch movies once and used VLC once. But here goes:

I heard VLC plays ISO files according to this guidehttp://www.afterdawn.com/guides/archive ... u-YdIzuHUQ. But I can't get VLC to open the file. Maybe it doesn't play ISO or bluray ISO? Im guessing VLC decodes or unpacks then plays like Winrar would do. VLC partly plays the file when i mount it using Daemon. But I cant play the ISO directly.

Which file or folder should I look for to play the large file? I can't currently burn blurays or an ISO that large. I don't know how yet.

I have:

Windows 7
i7 processor
VLC