4K UHD Blu Ray Playback Question?.

hdmi said:

Those issues no longer matter now anyway.

There is still an issue with the 4k player software, though. Will PowerDVD work with such a hack? AnyDVD Player will, I imagine, but the "Ultra" version, needed for UHD, isn't free.

Can you recommend player software?

bobkn said:

There is still an issue with the 4k player software, though. Will PowerDVD work with such a hack? AnyDVD Player will, I imagine, but the "Ultra" version, needed for UHD, isn't free.

Can you recommend player software?

It works with PowerDVD according to post #8 in that same forum thread I linked.

Disclaimer: I am NOT advocating any attempt to bypass DRM, however, if someone were to RIP a 4K disc using any of the utilities that strip the DRM from the end image, then a player should have no difficulty with the Ripped image, so long as it is capable of decoding HEVC and the audio formats that the video is encoded with.

@hsehestedt

The optical drive runs warm during playback which shortens the lifespan of both the drive and the disc. It also makes a slight humming noise in the background, whereas playing an MKV file from SSD can be completely silent if the PC in question uses passive cooling. Here in Europe it is perfectly legal to bypass DRM if the goal is to store copies for personal use only.

hdmi said:

It works with PowerDVD according to post #8 in that same forum thread I linked.

Thanks.

In theory, it should be legal here as well under "fair use" laws, but interestingly discussion on HOW to bypass DRM is not, so I'm not going into anything like that here.

I'll simply say that media servers such as Plex cater to people with large media collections.

@bobkn

YW.

@hsehestedt

Yeah, AFAIK the better choice would be TrueNAS CORE. But I don't watch movies 24/7 and I also don't run a hotel, so...