VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files as well as Blu-ray, DVDs, Audio CDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. After install the program, you can insert your DVD to your drive and play DVD with VLC on Windows 10/8.1/8/7.
If you are a Windows 10, Windows 8.1, Windows 8 or Windows 7 computer user, you might be surprised to find out that it won’t play your DVDs/Blu-rays as Microsoft, in its infinite wisdom, omitted this feature in the new version of the OS. Although optical media is going the way of the VHS tape, there’s a lot of content out there that’s not available for streaming or in compatible video formats. And now VLC provide a free way to play encrypted DVD/Blu-ray on Windows 10/8.1/8/7 and also Mac OS, Linux.
Here’s how to get your VLC 2.0 to play encrypted blu-ray discs on Windows 10/8.1/8/7?
First download VLC from here. Then you’ll need two files: keys database and AACS dynamic library.
Keys database
Get the KEYDB.cfg file UPDATED 20-04-2012!
Windows 8.1/8/7: put it in %APPDATA%/aacs/ .
Mac OS: put it in ~/Library/Preferences/aacs/ (create it if it does not exist)
Linux: put it in ~/.config/aacs/
AACS dynamic library
VLC 32bits on Windows 8.1/8/7: put win32 libaacs.dll file in your VLC directory
VLC 64bits on Windows 8.1/8/7: put win64 libaacs.dll file in your VLC directory
Mac OS: put mac libaacs.dylib that file in ~/lib directory (create it, if it does not exist)
Linux 32bit: put linux32 libaacs.so.0 file in VLC folder (or in LD_LIBRARY_PATH, usually /usr/lib/)
Linux 64bit: put linux64 libaacs.so.0 file in VLC folder (or in LD_LIBRARY_PATH, usually /usr/lib64/)
Tip: If VLC still can’t help you play Blu-ray disc movie on Windows 10/8.1/8/7, you need a third party software to help you. You can get a UFUWare Blu-ray Player for Windows(Only $39) to play Blu-ray movies like Blu-ray Discs, Blu-ray folder, Blu-ray ISO Image on windows 10/8.1/8/7/Vista/XP directly with Blu-ray effect.
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