Play Blu Ray movie files from the hard drive?

Bob

Newbie Location: Michigan Joined: Oct 29, 2009 21:12 Messages: 24 Offline

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Nov 18, 2009 15:52

I have PowerDVD V8. It can play Blu Ray movies from the Blu Ray drive in my PC, but I have not figured out how to play blu ray movie files stored on the hard drive. Using the "play movie files" I can open and play DVD files, but not blu ray. Any ideas? Thanks. mkh productions

CLD

Senior Contributor Joined: Mar 23, 2007 02:05 Messages: 925 Offline

Nov 18, 2009 23:35

Hi Bob,

PowerDVD does not play Blu-ray Disc files or folders because of copyright protection. This is based on the Blu-ray Disc spec.

There are some programs that will play them though.

Regards,
David

iieeann

Newbie Location: nil Joined: Oct 21, 2009 21:20 Messages: 41 Offline

Nov 19, 2009 01:52

movie file you wish to playback is in which format? BD disc image or m2ts? CPU......: i7-975, evga x58 Classified, Kingston 2000 1Gbx3
Display.: GTX285, Dell 2709W
Hdd......: x25M 80Gb x3, iRAM 4Gb
Sound...: Auzentech HTHD, Psyko 5.1, Razer HP1 5.1, Onkyo TX-SR876 AVR

Bob

Newbie Location: Michigan Joined: Oct 29, 2009 21:12 Messages: 24 Offline

Nov 19, 2009 08:30

Disk image. I render a blu ray disk in PowerdirectorV8 and have it write the file to a folder on the hard drive. I would like to preview the results before burning to a disk. mkh productions

Greg

Newbie Joined: Nov 19, 2009 09:05 Messages: 3 Offline

Nov 19, 2009 10:54

Quote: Disk image. I render a blu ray disk in PowerdirectorV8 and have it write the file to a folder on the hard drive. I would like to preview the results before burning to a disk.

you need to mount an iso image on a virtual drive. i use daemon tools pro. regards,
greg
http://www.kimnach.org

iieeann

Newbie Location: nil Joined: Oct 21, 2009 21:20 Messages: 41 Offline

Nov 20, 2009 07:31

You need AnyDVD HD to remove the protection for playing with disc image file, like what i am doing now. My BD disc is kept in safe place. CPU......: i7-975, evga x58 Classified, Kingston 2000 1Gbx3
Display.: GTX285, Dell 2709W
Hdd......: x25M 80Gb x3, iRAM 4Gb
Sound...: Auzentech HTHD, Psyko 5.1, Razer HP1 5.1, Onkyo TX-SR876 AVR

Bob

Newbie Location: Michigan Joined: Oct 29, 2009 21:12 Messages: 24 Offline

Nov 20, 2009 08:08

These are Blu Ray movies I have rendered, I would not think they have any protection. mkh productions

iieeann

Newbie Location: nil Joined: Oct 21, 2009 21:20 Messages: 41 Offline

Nov 21, 2009 22:50

In what file format the disc image you rendered is kept? .iso or .mds/.mdt ?

Daemon tools lite (free) and alcohol 52% (free) are the 2 most famous disc mounting tools at the moment. They create virtual BD/DVD drive and are able to mount a lot of image formats.

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CPU......: i7-975, evga x58 Classified, Kingston 2000 1Gbx3
Display.: GTX285, Dell 2709W
Hdd......: x25M 80Gb x3, iRAM 4Gb
Sound...: Auzentech HTHD, Psyko 5.1, Razer HP1 5.1, Onkyo TX-SR876 AVR

Bob

Newbie Location: Michigan Joined: Oct 29, 2009 21:12 Messages: 24 Offline

Nov 22, 2009 09:20

OK, I guess I am dumb as a bag of rocks . . .

I tried Daemon Tools Lite, it does not know what to do with the Blu Ray folders on the hard drive.

The file PDV8 creates looks just like a Blu Ray disk, it has two folders under the root, BDMV and Certificate. It is not an image file. Under the BDMV folder there are many directories, most of them empty, but there is one directory called STREAM with lots of 000XX.m2ts files, in this case numbered from 00000 to 00052.

When I burn a disk with Nero, I use the Blu Ray option and simply add the BDMV and Certificate folder to the project and burn.

So I'm guessing PDV8 is not creating an image file? mkh productions