VLC Media Player (64-bit) is a favorite of many video watchers thanks to abundant format support, style, and customization options. There aren't many videos this app can't play and play amazingly.
Blu-ray movies are regularly getting famous today among movies lovers and the main reason lies in its superb viewing experience. Blu-ray movies come in a very crystal clear quality and users can enjoy every scene of their movies. You can view these movies on your computer or laptop by using software's video player.
On the other hand, VLC is one of the most famous video player due to its easy-to-use interface and availability for every operating system. However, VLC can't play Blu-ray movie since the latter is a new technology. To solve the issue, we are going to share how to use VLC to play Blu-ray movies in following 4 parts. Part 1. Introduction of VLC and Blu-Ray Movies What is VLC Movie VLC is an exceptional free media player software and available for almost every operating system, Mac, Windows, Android, iOS and Linux devices.
The only limitation in the program lies in that it doesn’t support all audio video formats but MPEG, Quick Time, 3GP, MP4, MKV and some other formats only. What is Blu-Ray Movie Blu-ray is a video format known as Blu-ray Disc (BD) and invented by Blu-ray association. This format enables users to play HD videos and store more data in a single disc, it stores up to 50GB data in a dual layer disc. The greatest benefit of using Blu-ray is that it comes with very short wavelength as compared to red laser.
In short, it can easily store more data in less space by packing data more tightly. Free Way to Play Blu-Ray Movies with VLC on Window/Mac 1. Use VLC to Play Blu-Ray Movies on Windows VLC supports playing Blu-ray movies on your Windows computer or laptop if you do some extra operations. Note that 2.0 or later version of VLC is a must, so please upgrade your VLC if you are using an old version. Below is the way to use VLC to play Blu-ray movies. This is tested on Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 10 as well.
Step 1 First of all please visit and download the latest version of VLC media player on your computer. Step 2 Now visit the below URL and download key database AACS DYNAMIC LIBRARY from the site on your computer.
Make sure you're downloading 32-bit files for 32-bit VLC, and 64-bit files for 64-bit VLC. Step 3 Go in the 'C:Usersyour usernameAppData' for Windows Users. Step 4 Enable viewing hidden files. Click on Folder Options and then click on View tab, in the View tab check this option “Show hidden files and folders” and click on Ok button. Step 5 Create a new folder in the App data with name aacs and paste the downloaded KEYDB.cfg key file in this new folder. Step 6 Install AACS DYNAMIC LIBRARY on your computer. Just visit C drive and find out “Video LAN VLC” in the program files of 32 bit.
Then paste or drag and drop AACS Dynamic library file in this folder. Step 7 Run VLC and click on Media and then click on Open Media option. In the popup, click on “Disk” and check “Blu-Ray” option then click on Play button. Now your Blu-ray movie will start playing in VLC. Play Blu-Ray Movies with VLC on Mac Above steps are how to use VLC to play Blu-ray movies on Windows. Now we are going to tell you about playing Blu-ray movies on Mac devices.
Nothing is changed there you just need to follow the above steps and download Mac version of key database AACS DYNAMIC LIBRARY. Step 1 Visit VLC website and download 2.0 or later version of VLC for Mac. After installation, visit the below URL and download the key database AACS DYNAMIC LIBRARY for Mac. Step 2 After downloading key database and AACS DYNAMIC LIBRARY from the site, put key database in the below directory /Library/Preferences/aacs/ (if this folder is not there then create it) on your Mac, and AACS dynamic library in the /lib directory. Now you can easily play Blu-ray movies on Mac using VLC media player. The Easiest Way to Play Blu-Ray Movies (High Recommended).
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Fetch metadata for your iTunes movies automatically. Burn and customize your DVD with free DVD menu templates. Versatile toolbox combines fix video metadata, GIF maker, cast video to TV, VR converter and screen recorder. Industry-leading APEXTRANS technology converts videos with zero quality loss or video compression. Supported OS: Windows 10/8/7/XP/Vista, Mac OS 10.14 (Mojave), 10.13, 10.12, 10.11, 10.10, 10.9, 10.8, 10.7, 10.6. How to Play Blu-ray Movies with Wondershare Video Converter Ultimate Step 1 Launch Wondershare Video Converter Ultimate by double clicking on the software icon after downloading and installing it via the download button above, you'll under Convert tab by default.
Step 2 Now add your Blu-ray movies files in the Wondershare Video Converter Ultimate by dragging and dropping in the interface or by clicking on Add files button to browse. Step 3 Then you'd see the loaded video being displayed as the screenshot shows. Click on Play icon in the middle of video preview and your Blu-ray video will start playing. Step 5 Your Blu-ray video will be playing like the below picture in front of you. You can view full screen of video by clicking on Full screen icon in the down right side.
VLC Media Player is the most popular and robust multi format, free media player available. Its popularity has been aided by compatibility and codec issues which render competitor media players like QuickTime, itunes and RealPlayer useless to many popular video and music file formats. The easy, basic UI and huge array of customization options mean few free media players can match VLC.
Flexibility VLC plays almost any video or music file format you can find. At its launch this was a revolution compared to the default media players most people were using that often crashed or displayed “codecs missing” error messages when trying to play media files. VLC can play MPEG, AVI, RMBV, FLV, QuickTime, WMV, MP4 and a shed load of other media file formats. For a full list of compatible file formats please click here. Not only can VLC Media Player handle loads of different formats, VLC can also playback partial or incomplete media files so you can preview downloads before they finish.
Easy to Use VLC’s UI is definitely a case of function over format. The basic look does however make the player extremely easy to use. Simply drag and drop files to play or open them using files and folders then use the classic media navigation buttons to play, pause, stop, skip, edit playback speed, change the volume, brightness, etc. A huge variety of skins and customization options mean the standard appearance shouldn’t be enough to prevent you choosing VLC as your default media player. Advanced Options Don’t let VLC Media Player’s simple interface fool you, within the playback, audio, video, tools and view tabs are a huge variety of player options. You can play with synchronization settings including a graphic equalizer with multiple pre-sets, overlays, special effects, AtmoLight video effects, audio spatializer and customizable range compression settings.
You can even add subtitles to videos by adding the SRT file to the video’s folder. Summary VLC Media Player is quite simply the most versatile, stable and high quality free media player available. It has rightly dominated the free media player market for over 10 years now and looks like it may for another 10 thanks to the constant development and improvement by VideoLAN Org. Core: Update subtitles display while paused. Access: Enable srt support on binary builds.
Decoders: Allow videotoolbox hardware decoding to be disabled. Disable VideoToolbox for 10bits H.264. Fix VideoToolbox with some invalid HEVC streams. Fix subsdec wide character support. Fix 1st order Ambisonics in AAC.
Demux: Miscellaneous ogg improvements & bugfixes, including oggds. Fix forced tracks selection. Fix Topfield files. Probe AAC/ADTS inside TS. Fix tracks detection issues with DolbyVision and Bluray streams.
MacOS: Fix 'Open Network Stream' URL box focus. Add option to disable hardware acceleration for video decoding. Remove option to force dolby mode from simple preferences. Video Output: Fix crashes on Direct3D11. Qt: Fix tooltip display on some desktop environments. Fix spurious movement of the main Window.
Fix playlist being displayed in fullscreen. Misc: Fix amem output. Fix numerous issues on fonts fallback and font shaping. Fix subtitles toggle through hotkeys. Fix audioscrobbling. Fix buffer over-read in avcodec audio encoding with non-default layouts. Numerous 3rd party libraries updated, fixing security issues.
Translations: Update of most languages.