Play Blu Ray Dvd On Windows8.1

[catmando]

I have a laptop with a blu-ray enabled dvd drive. My o/s is Windows 8.1. Any advice on how to play commercially encrypted blu-ray dvds on my laptop would be gratefully received please. I recently downloaded the free version of VLC but it seems this otherwise versatile product cannot cope with encrypted dvds. Any suggestions gratefully received, thanks. S p.

[hc4361]

Has this dvd played properly on any machine?

[hc4361]

What about the region? Is it the right region for your player?

[whiskeryron]

As hc4361 asks, because if your P/C has a Blu-Ray enabled DVD drive it should play as soon as you put the disc in without downloading any other software.

[Buenchico]

VLC can't natively support encrypted Blu-ray discs because of licensing issues. You can try patching it though:
http://windows7themes.net/en-us/playing-blu-ray-on-windows-7-or-8-yes-vlc-can-play-bds/

However it's unusual for for a machine with a Blu-ray drive not to be supplied with suitable software (either on a disc or pre-loaded onto the computer). Are you sure that you've not got something like CyberLink’s PowerDVD or ArcSoft’s TotalMedia Theatre somewhere or other?

[catmando]

Thanks for your replies. My dvd drive is a replacement drive replacing one that gave up the ghost. It was fitted by a local techy where we used to live and I have since upgraded (if that is the right word) the o/s from Windows 7 to 8.1. This involved a complete reformat of C: Hope this explains why no blu-ray software. And, yes it is a local region disk bought in Tesco or some such place. Thanks again for taking trouble to respond.

[hc4361]

What software did you use to play blu ray? It should have been supplied with the new dvd drive.