Best Software with Blu-ray.

[johnyeah]

I recently bought a LG Black SATA Internal Blu-ray Burner 6X Blu-ray Disc Burner & HD DVD-ROM Drive Model GGW-H20L - Retail. The software bundled with the drive is absolutely junk. I was thinking about getting the dvd ultra suite 6 from cyberlink, but are there any better applications out there?

 

[Shadow703793]

Try VLC.
(Not sure if it supports Blu-Ray now)
Link:
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

 

[skittle]

No open source player supports BR yet. Even if an open source player supported the audio and disk structures (they do not), they still do not support AACS and BD+ decryption.

Nero 8 also has support for BR disks now.

 

[johnyeah]

But Nero 8 doesn't play BR does it. I know it can burn.

 

[skittle]

Yes, it can.

 

[roadrunner197069]

Nero is a player and burner, not just a burner.

I use Cyberlink.

 

[roadrunner197069]

Here is a link where to get plug-ins for Nero
http://www.nero.com/enu/nero8-plugins.html

 

[johnyeah]

what's better?

...

 

[bharath1097]

mpc home cinema is an open source software that supports blu ray playback.
it also supports hardware acceleration of h264 and vc1.
here is the link
http://mpc-hc.sourceforge.net/

 

[johnyeah]

Hmm.

How good is the MPC-Home Cinema?
I don't mind paying for a good program, I just don't want a crappy player (otherwise I'd just stick with the bundle software).

 

[skittle]

MPC-HC doesnt support BR playback.

MPC-HC is also Directshow based, so you can use any directshow filters you want. (read ffdshow)

 

[johnyeah]

I see, thanks.

I'm probably just getting the Cyberlink Ultra Suite 6. Only $70 bucks off newegg.