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More => Old Versions => Media Center 17 => Topic started by: Irinotecan on June 06, 2012, 07:03:02 pm

Title: Blu-ray support - Native or pass-through? (Crash on opening disc)
Post by: Irinotecan on June 06, 2012, 07:03:02 pm

Can someone tell me if the Blu-ray playback support in MC17 is native, or is it a pass-through player, and I need to install something else like Cyberlink PowerDVD first?  I ask because I was going to evaluate MC17 as a Blu-ray player since it was $50 cheaper than most of the other Blu-ray players, but it always crashes when I try to play a Blu-ray disc.  It gets to the "Opening" or "Adding required components" message then shortly afterwards I get a CTD.

Is the crash because it can't find an actual Blu-ray player for its pass through?  Or is this something else?  I've tried updating my graphics driver to the latest build, and updated MC17 to the latest version, and nothing helps...

Title: Re: Blu-ray support - Native or pass-through? (Crash on opening disc)
Post by: Scolex on June 06, 2012, 07:11:46 pm

It is pass-through
The licensing fees are too expensive at this point was the response when native playback was asked for IIRC.

Title: Re: Blu-ray support - Native or pass-through? (Crash on opening disc)
Post by: JimH on June 06, 2012, 07:42:02 pm

You need to install AnyDVD HD or equivalent to read the disc.

http://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/Blu-ray

Title: Re: Blu-ray support - Native or pass-through? (Crash on opening disc)
Post by: jmone on June 06, 2012, 10:09:51 pm

MC naively plays the audio, video, subtitle content stored in a BD format and structure just fine (eg it does not a pass through to another player).  But unlike players such as PDVD or TMT, MC is unable to decrypt protected content found on commercially released disks (eg see the link that JimH posted about 3rd party solns to this) AND it does not support currently support Java Menus (but you can still select various streams).