Good freeware blu ray software?

[tangstang]

Long story short, I bought a Liteon 4x bluray player, it came with cyberlink powerdvd8 software bundled with it. When the program works, it works well enough, however it won't play all my blu rays? WTF!!! Is there a good freeware alternative or something?


And the issue with it... it will say its playing the disc and just won't do it, if i click stop it will give me the option to resume, but i can't navigate to the top menu or next chapter,etc.

[bottlerocket]

Found this

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/236297-49-free-media-player-codec

[bottlerocket]

From my searches, apparently you have to pay a licencing fee every time you "build" a blu-ray player. Your reader just means it can read the data, but to make it a functional player you need to have the software, so thats where the fee comes in it seems. Nero is the most straight forward, but thats close to $90 with the additional Blu-ray addon.

[tangstang]

Tried some and nothing worked for blu-rays at all. OF course wind0ws7 would say the drivers were up to date even when i downloaded some and told it manually to search for them on my pc in a folder... ended up downloading a -smart update tool- from liteon and it put the right drivers on and so far everything is working.