gHacks Technology News | Latest Tech News, Software And Tutorials » blu-ray movies http://www.ghacks.net A technology news blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:51:26 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Can Your PC Play Blu-Ray Movies?http://www.ghacks.net/2009/01/05/can-your-pc-play-blu-ray-movies/ http://www.ghacks.net/2009/01/05/can-your-pc-play-blu-ray-movies/#comments Mon, 05 Jan 2009 17:49:15 +0000 Martin Brinkmann http://www.ghacks.net/?p=9652 Practically any modern computer is capable of playing DVD movies. But what about Blu-Ray movies? Everyone knows that this high definition video format requires some processing power and probably additional capabilities. Cyberlink’s Blu-Ray Disc Advisor is trying to answer that question for you by determining if a computer is capable of running Blu-Ray movies.

It was created as a reference tool and will display results seconds after execution. The results are divided into two categories. Basic Playback will check if the hardware of the computer is able to play Blu-Ray movies. The diagnostic tool will analyze the cpu, system memory, video card, disc drives but also the software players and video connection types available.

The detection is not overly accurate but should be sufficient on most occasions. It did detect 2 Gigabytes of computer memory on a system with 4 gigabytes installed. The Blu-Ray Disc Advisor will show if the items are Blu-Ray ready. A green icon means the hardware or software component can playback Blu-Ray movies while red means it is not capable of, yellow means an upgrade is required and brown means that the software cannot rate that item.

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The second tab analyses the advanced Blu-Ray playback capabilities of the computer hardware. This includes special features that are included in some Blu-Ray movie titles like Internet interaction or picture-in-picture.

Items will be tested for dual-video decoding capabilities, network capabilities and player capabilities. It is possible to save the information in a log file and visit the Cyberlink website for additional information about items that are not Blu-Ray capable.

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Blu-Ray Disc Ripper is the perfect complement for the Blu-Ray Region Code Remover that we introduced yesterday. The process would therefor start be started by running the Blu-Ray Disk Ripper to rip the Blu-Ray movie to the hard drive and start the Blu-Ray Region Code Remover afterwards to get rid of the region code protection if that is of concern.

The Blu-Ray Disk Ripper requires a unique volume key which the user has to supply. The software developer suggests to either search the Doom9 forum for the movie title or use the applications DumpVID and AACS Keys to find them. The program will check the key if it can be used to decrypt the Blu-Ray movie.

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The software provides access to four actions.

  • Copy the contents and decrypt the .m2ts files
  • Copy the contents and do not decrypt the .m2ts files
  • Decrypt BD-Live files related to the movie for a specific software player
  • Sync modified dates between source and destination folder

The program is available at the Doom 9 forum. The current version can be downloaded at Sendspace directly.

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