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Now download it and start the Blu-ray to VLC conversion. Download Blu-ray to VLC Converter: (Note: Click here for OS X 10.5) How to Compress Blu-ray movies to VLC playable video. Import Blu-ray movies. Insert the Blu-ray disc to external Blu-ray drive and click the 'Load Disc' button to add the Blu-ray movies you want to play on your VLC. Wonder how to get your VLC 3.0 to play encrypted blu-ray discs? You'll need two files: keys database and AACS dynamic library. VLC 64 bit on Windows: put that file in your VLC directory Mac OS X: put that file in ~/lib directory (create it, if it does not exist).
Conceivably, VLC is the most popular as well as powerful free and open source tool in the market. The 2.0 and later version of VLC Media Player support Blu-ray media playback with some extra operations. You can download the latest version from VLC official website. However, for legal reasons, AACS and BD+ DRM libraries and keys still are not shipped. That means only Blu-ray disc with AACS libraries exposed are supported. Below I will introduce the guide referred from VLC’s forum.
How to Play Blu-ray Freely with VLC Media Player?
Step 1: Go to videolan.org, download, install and run the latest version of VLC for your system.
Step 2: Go to: http://vlc-bluray.whoknowsmy.name/ to download the KEYS DATABASE(KEYDB.cfg) and AACS DYNAMIC LIBRARY(libaacs.dll for Windows or libaacs.dylib for Mac).
For Windows Users
1. KEYS DATABASE
* Open your user area (“C:Usersyour usernameAppData”)
* Enable view hidden files and folders (Under Folder Options – View tab then select “show hidden files…”->select ok)
* Open “AppData” directory or create a folder and name it aacs
* Place the downloaded KEYDB.cfg file in this folder directly.
Download Install AACS dynamic library for VLC to use:
2. AACS DYNAMIC LIBRARY
* Go to “c:Program Files” [Or “c:Program Files (x86)” if running 64bit]
* Navigate to “VLC” directory, and move the libaacs.dll file into it.
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Now, you can easily play Blu-Ray disc with VLC on Windows for free. Note: The latest VLC still doesn’t have menu support yet.
For Mac users
You may navigate the corresponding folder and move into the necessary files as follow. Go to: http://vlc-bluray.whoknowsmy.name/, get the necessary files.
1. KEYS Database
Mac OS: put it in ~/Library/Preferences/aacs/ (create it if it does not exist)
Mac OS: put it in ~/Library/Preferences/aacs/ (create it if it does not exist)
2. AACS Dynamic Library
Mac OS: right-click on VLC, choose “Show package contents” and put that file in Contents/MacOS/lib/
Mac OS: right-click on VLC, choose “Show package contents” and put that file in Contents/MacOS/lib/
Tip: VLC does not yet support Blu-ray menus so you must manually select title to play. Not all Blu-ray movies are supported.
Errors You May Encounter When Playing Blu-ray in VLC
“I downloaded the latest version of VLC which is 2.1.3 Rincewind. Then I followed the instructions above and put everything in the right directory, but when I try to ply the blu ray disc, I get this error message:
Blu-ray error:
This Blu-ray Disc needs a library for AACS decoding, and your system does not have it.
Your input can’t be opened:
VLC is unable to open the MRL ‘bluray:///D:/’. Check the log for details.”
This Blu-ray Disc needs a library for AACS decoding, and your system does not have it.
Your input can’t be opened:
VLC is unable to open the MRL ‘bluray:///D:/’. Check the log for details.”
In fact, not all the Blu-ray discs are supported. VlC can only deal with discs which its library has the corresponding AACS keys. However, for legal reasons, AACS and BD+ DRM libraries and keys still are not shipped.
What to do when VLC Won’t Play Blu-ray
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When playing Blu-ray movie, you can choose any title/chapter you want to watch and adjust the video and audio effect. When copying Blu-ray, you can choose the copy mode like “Full copy”, “Main movie”, “Clone”, and “Write Data”. When Ripping the Blu-ray, you can edit the movie effect to make it perfect.
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libbluray
is an open-source library designed for Blu-Ray Discs playback for media players, like VLC or MPlayer.This research project is developed by an international team of developers from Doom9.
Latest release is libbluray 1.1.2.
Features
- Portability: Currently supported platforms are GNU/Linux, Windows, MacOS X. Dependencies are very limited.
- Freedom:
libbluray
is released under a Free Software license, LGPL, ensuring it will stay free. - Features: the library integrates navigation, playlist parsing, menus and BD-J.
- Legal:
libbluray
is DRM-circumvention free, and thus, safe to integrate in your software. - Fun:
libbluray
is a fun to hack on project, in its starting phase.
NB: Most commercial Blu-Ray are protected by AACS or BD+ technologies and this library is not enough to playback those discs.
People interested in AACS technologies should have a look at libaacs.
People interested in BD+ technologies should have a look at libbdplus.
Get libbluray
You can get
libbluray
latest release on our download server: libbluray 1.1.2 libbluray
is also available through git at:you can browse the source code at code.videolan.org.
Mailing list
You can discuss about libbluray on the libbluray-devel mailing list.
Légal
libbluray
est un projet de recherche, intégralement développé, sans spécifications et sans aucune aide ou copie extérieur que ce soit. (research project, started from scratch, without specifications or external code). libbluray
ne contourne aucune mesure technique de protection MTP (doesn't include any DRM-circumvention tool). libbluray
s'inscrit dans le droit à l'interopérabilité, tel que décrit par CE 10e et 9e soussect., 16 juillet 2008, n° 301843, APRIL, par le CPI 122-6-1 et par le CPI 331-5. Documentation
Document | Status | Download | Maintainer |
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Libbluray API documentation | Up-to-date | HTML | Generated by Doxygen |