Best BR Plyer 2 Watch on Comp of Legal Own Disc

[Shatinator]

It has taken a long time to post this frustrating question again, but I own a HP computer with an internal or infernal Blue ray player and burner, which is completely user -UN-friendly.

I down loaded Power DVD11. To make my life easier while watching blu-rays, since it worked better on my old e-machine. Silly-me.

I upgraded from VGA to DVI, as required and followed all their completely unnecessary security protocols.

Despite that, my completely legally payed for program crashed three separate times and even alerted my Windows firewall, while playing official region A (US authorized) blue ray disc that I OWN, made in China (of course).

So, what is a honest consumer to do? As of this moment my blu-ray player operates, but that is no guarantee. I receive updates from this software from time-to-time, that have done the following:

• Added side adds to the boot up process.
• Causes me to use a separate function to activate choices-isolating the mouse completely.
• Adding a time line of where & when the video is in play, that I neither like nor can get rid of.
• And prohibits me on accessing the menu once play has started. That's right, If I want to go to a scene, I need to start all over again (with films).

Help. What program is best (i. e. less stupid and big-brother like). Their must be a legal alternative, yes?

 

[clint g]

And this is why people torrent shit. I had the same exact issue with my internal blu-ray player on my vaio. The funny thing is, it works perfectly fine on my girlfriends account on my laptop. On my administrator account however I can never get it to work right. Honestly, it would be EASIER to just dl blu-ray rips than to deal with the piece of shit internal drive.

Sorry I'm not able to give you any advice, just felt like I needed to vent as well

 

[YellowSubmarine]

As I mentioned in your previous thread, recent VLC versions play blu-ray disks. VLC doesn't call home without asking and it doesn't purposefully break your playback to enforce the anti-customer rules built into Blu-ray.

The only downside is that you'd have to make the effort to find your AACS keys yourself. As for the legal part, some people have questioned the legality of distributing the keys, but no court has ruled it illegal, and these “some people” have a vested interest in it being perceived as illegal, so...

 

[Shatinator]

As I mentioned in your previous thread, recent VLC versions play blu-ray disks. VLC doesn't call home without asking and it doesn't purposefully break your playback to enforce the anti-customer rules built into Blu-ray.

The only downside is that you'd have to make the effort to find your AACS keys yourself. As for the legal part, some people have questioned the legality of distributing the keys, but no court has ruled it illegal, and these “some people” have a vested interest in it being perceived as illegal, so...

Yellow Sub,

Yes, I remember our chat from my previous thread with this topic. But the system was "relatively" stable until recently. Thank you for the information / links, I will research this and try to figure this out.

BTW, like that you use the least intrusive search engine out there. Duck Duck Go, I have heard of them, but not used them myself. I rarely use search engines, actually. At this stage of the web, these engines, seem that their only function is to track user, give inaccurate / misleading information and increase the users sense of their own echo-chamber, or ego-chamber.
Not helpful! As a matter of fact, Google was the reason I decided to leave you tube-along with many...but I am digressing.

Again thank you for this I am just frustrated the citizens of my nation would allow themselves to be told what they are allowed to watch and in what manner. I'm sure if one day they opened up the fridge and it only chilled their milk and not their OJ--they would be in arms.

End of my soap box!