Blu-Ray software suggestions?

[Stroking_it]

It doesn't have to be about piracy per se. You are talking about circumventing the protection on blu-rays which requires licensed software to play them on.

And you are right, this thread isn't for me, but the OP similarly wasn't interested in crackware or a fly-by night solution that may or may not work tomorrow. And although I do not buy imported discs I, do play my discs in a media player. WinDVD has a limited WMC plugin. Its not perfect but since TMT went south in my experience it is the best 100% legit solution out there (unfortunately its now a very short list).

The only reason someone will revoke my player's license is if someone else out there tries to find or exploit a weakness in it - as per the software you are promoting.

Anyway, the OP (who I think is going to be disappointed in his search) wouldn't be interested in such an approach, and obviously neither am I, so you can have the rest of this thread to discuss bypassing AACS with as much plausible deniability as you like.

Meanwhile I shall enjoy my cheap player until someone messes it up for me.

[candela]

I think you may need to read the original poster's message once again. What he is asking simply does not and cannot exist because of Bluray DRM design.

He wants to make screenshots and have a solution that keeps working after the company providing the software shuts down. Any licensed AACS player fails on both accounts. Therefore, what I have presented here is perfectly suited for the original poster

Having a database of disc keys is in fact the ONLY method that will work in future with a 100% guarantee (granted for some discs you will need a drive that does not support bus encryption and BD+ also needs to be tackled). Nobody is denying anything about AACS circumvention as it's obviously what this is.

And the so called crackware "DVDFab" is only needed for people that want to contribute keys. If all your discs are already in the database or you can wait until someone adds it, you need only 100% free and open source software

[deepsepia]

Originally Posted by Stroking_it

If you ask me, the DRM issues are being caused by same people who are railing against it. I'm no fan of DRM as a concept, but then again it doesn't stop me doing anything I want to do with my DVD or Blu ray collection either. It is the growing army of the internet generation who believe that everything should be free and all big business is, like, evil

Its a bit more than that. I consider "fair use" of a book that I purchase to be "the ability to take notes from it; similarly with videos, I'd like to be able to screenshot them.

Blu-Ray's DRM makes the question of "what do I actually own" when I buy a disk rather uncertain . . . basically what you "own" is "I can play it until they say I can't anymore" and "I can't screenshot it at all".

I am sympathetic to the interests of intellectual property owners -- I want them to make money, so they make more stuff I want to see. But I also want to be able to watch what I buy the way that I please, and Blu-Ray makes that incredibly difficult, and indeed is a kind of inducement for piracy, as a BR-rip is so much more useful than the original disk.

Originally Posted by candela

Having a database of disc keys is in fact the ONLY method that will work in future with a 100% guarantee (granted for some discs you will need a drive that does not support bus encryption and BD+ also needs to be tackled).

Very nicely put . . .