How to play Blue Ray on Windows 11

[Saint of M]

Have a Windows 11 laptop. Can play DVDs really good, but doesn't seem to want to play Blue Rays.
Preferred player is VLC.
Any programs or add ons to be able to play these as most of them have good extras and I like watching those.

 

[Chimpzy]

Have a Windows 11 laptop. Can play DVDs really good, but doesn't seem to want to play Blue Rays.
Preferred player is VLC.
Any programs or add ons to be able to play these as most of them have good extras and I like watching those.

VLC doesn't natively support bluray afaik. Haven't tried myself, but you can apparently get it going by adding the right libraries to VLC

libbluray - VideoLAN

www.videolan.org

libaacs - VideoLAN

www.videolan.org

libbdplus - VideoLAN

www.videolan.org

Alternatively, you can just rip your blurays with something like MakeMKV or Dumbofab. Just keep in mind that'll probably result in some pretty beefy files.

 

[Gordon_4]

Have a Windows 11 laptop. Can play DVDs really good, but doesn't seem to want to play Blue Rays.
Preferred player is VLC.
Any programs or add ons to be able to play these as most of them have good extras and I like watching those.

Playing blu-rays on a PC these days is honest to Christ way more trouble than it is worth. Take Chimpzy's advice and either rip the damn things or just find them on a streaming service.

 

[Worgen]

Does it even have a drive that is compatible with blurays? Cause if it just has a dvd drive then you aren't playing any blurays on it.

 

[Saint of M]

Does it even have a drive that is compatible with blurays? Cause if it just has a dvd drive then you aren't playing any blurays on it.

External Blue Ray Drive. THe External DVD players work wonders.

 

[TheMysteriousGX]

Unfortunately, Blu-ray software is still proprietary technology

 

[TheMysteriousGX]

Can personally confirm MakeMKV works pretty well, at least on the 5 year old series's I just picked up.

Super hate that I'm having to download extra software and/or rip 40 gigs of data onto a hard drive to watch a 30 year old cartoon while I fish in Final Fantasy XIV, but it is what it is