Blu-Ray Support

[RFranzen]

I installed VLC on my new Windows 10 64-bit OS machine via the Windows App Store. I want to add Blu Ray support and found https://vlc-bluray.whoknowsmy.name/ telling me how to do it -- except for app store installs, that is. Apparently app store installs don't go to "c:\Program Files" and don't have an executable named "vlc.exe". Instead, it hides itself in a protected directory, "c:\Program Files\WindowsApps". The VLN install goes to 4 subdirectories with long names, one of which contains the executable file: "VideoLAN.VLC_3.2.1.0_x64__paz6r1rewnh0a\VLC.Universal.exe".

Fine. That only took an hour to figure out. <sigh> BTW, VLC runs fine, and is version 3.2.1.0.

I make the directory C:\ProgramData\aacs and place KEYDB.cfg in it. (Instructions don't say make the directory, but there wasn't one.)

Now I'm stuck. I don't know whether this is a 64 bit file, as the "x64" part of the long-a** directory name would indicate, or a 32-bit file, as VLC.Universal.exe would indicate. Besides that detail, I can't add anything to the directory because it is protected, even from a dos promp shell with administrator privileges.

How do I continue? And do I want the 64-bit DLL or the 32-bit DLL?

[flummoxed]

I make the directory C:\ProgramData\aacs and place KEYDB.cfg in it. (Instructions don't say make the directory, but there wasn't one.)

Now I'm stuck. I don't know whether this is a 64 bit file, as the "x64" part of the long-a** directory name would indicate, or a 32-bit file, as VLC.Universal.exe would indicate.

Neither. Keydb.cfg is a simple ASCII text file, you can view it in Notepad.

You might need to put a copy in C:\Users\'user name'\AppData\Roaming\aacs\ as described in the post from TopShrop44 just above yours.

From the filename for the .exe, it sounds like you have a 64bit VLC install (which makes sense for a 64bit OS). If so then you will want the 64bit version of whatever DLLs are needed.

I do not have (nor want) any systems running any version of W10 and don't know how the app store installs work, so maybe someone else can help with that.

[flummoxed]

Seems these two posts got moved out of the thread they used to be in, which is a bit confusing now. So the post by TopShrop44 that used to be above what is now the first of this new thread is at https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.ph ... 75#p518162

[Lotesdelere]

I'm not even sure the Store version of VLC is still being developped. You'd better use the Desktop version of VLC for playing blu-rays.