Windows media center blu ray playback

Download Microsoft Edge More info. Contents Exit focus mode. In this article. The chart below summarizes the findings. As a conclusion from the previous section, make sure that you have enabled GPU hardware acceleration in your media center.

Once you have ripped your movie to the hard drive, it is time to add it to your movie library. The process is very similar e. Check folder naming convention Make sure that you name the folder for each movie with the real name of the movie. You should also set automatic scanning on and use folder names for lookups. Now, hit OK. The alternative method with MakeMKV is not the most convenient as you are not able to play movies directly from optical drive with most media centers.

The key finding in this test was that CPU performance does not matter that much when watching Blu-ray movies if you have a decent hardware acceleration enabled graphics chip either embedded on the CPU or separate graphics card. But into blurays and Picture quality - you would want that pemium player. You only buy blurays if you got the equipment to replay them and render out the full picture quality onto a top notch screen - not just because they're cheap - because they are not On some Windows 8 reviews, like many other publications that got their information from Microsoft, originally reported that the Media Center and Pro Pack contain codecs for both DVD and Blu-ray movie playback.

This is false. They only facilitate DVD playback, not Blu-ray. For optical discs playback on new Windows 8 devices, we are going to rely on the many quality solutions on the market, which provide great experiences for both DVD and Blu-ray. That can lead to confusion if you thought it was checking your machine.

This should be obvious if you see the program in the 32 but directory, but nevertheless the first time I put the 64 bit bluray dll in the VLC folder and of course that did not work. Looking more carefully, there is a 64 bit experimental version that you choose from the ftp site if you hit the link, after thinking about which of the files is the actual installer.

If you "auto-play" the disk you get the "MLR" error. It was a little but better but still not usable. I enabled it. Now the test BD, " to Yuma," is playing.

The playback controls are supposed to be limited. You can move along in the timeline and skip scenes. Connect the external BD drive with your PC, and place the blu-ray disc in the blu-ray disc drive. Step 2. Step 3. Step 4.