No Blu-ray Player? Try to Convert Blu ray to Video Files like MKV, MP4

Sep 20
07:29

2012

janehuang

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"Is there a free codec for the playback of Blu-ray movies on a Windows PC? I have searched far and wide and eventually leads back to CyberLink's payware BD codec or PowerDVD release. Is there any hope for a freeware BD codec? Have I somehow missed it? "

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At the very beginning,No Blu-ray Player? Try to Convert Blu ray to Video Files like MKV, MP4 Articles you must know that Blu-ray is a closed format not a codec. So, there is no so-called BD codec. If you want to play Blu-ray disc on your computer, you need a professional Blu-ray player, like you mentioned PowerDVD 10 or so. Blu-ray is much alike to DVD. They all have to play with pro player software through drive. To be honestly, there is no useful free Blu-ray player software available on market right now since the technology is relative new. If you don't want to buy a Blu-ray player, you may try to convert Blu-ray content to regular used video formats, like MP4, MOV or MKV. The output videos can be played with player on your computer smoothly. Here is a tutorial about how to rip Blu ray to MKV, take a look.

Step1-Run Blu ray to MKV converter. Click on Add button to load disc content. Please make sure you have insert Blu-ray disc in drive. Load BD/DVD ROM, after seconds, all data in disc will be listed in this software.

Step 2-Choose complete disc, then Edit button will light up, click it. Then "Edit Disc" panel will pop out. Any changes will apply to whole disc content. Click the down menu of "Format", choose "Lossless" for output. Click OK to get back to main interface.

Step 3-Set a folder on your computer as targeted folder. Afterwards, click on Convert button  to start backing up Blu-ray to MKV lossless. The program will put your Blu-ray movie into MKV container with all data within disc, all audio tracks, subtitles and video tracking will be package into MKV without any quality loss. Once the conversion is finished, open up targeted folder to get exported files.

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