However, when the trial period expired, it reverted to only being able to play certain Blu-Rays, which did not include Star Wars (the only Blu-Ray I've tried so far). VLC crashes without libaacs, and gives a BD+ error without libbdplus (for the Star Wars discs). My configuration: Windows 7 64-bit, 32-bit version of VLC, libaacs (from here and libbdplus (extracted from the archive here), along with their corresponding %appdata% entries. I haven't watched a whole movie yet, but over several minutes there are no problems. Perhaps these are the supposed BD+ copy protection artifacts, as DVDfab Passkey Lite appears to have gotten rid of them. Large gray areas would appear on the screen, as well as bands across the video that look like extremely compressed video. I just bought a DVD drive to play Star Wars Blu Rays, and found that a couple minutes into the movies, they would start displaying large artifacts, a few per second.

All MakeMKV BD decrypting abilities run through MakeMKVCon.exe. If you look at Task Manager while a BD is playing you'll see MakeMKVCon.exe listed there. It's possible Mike modified MakeMKV to not start a trial until certain conditions were met to stop that kind of business so you might need to run the MakeMKV GUI first and scan a BD to activate the trial if you haven't used it before.Ĥ: the dlls call MakeMKVCon.exe so you need MakeMKV properly installed for all this to work.

I think it's valid, there are a few posts on the MakeMKV forum complaining that a key isn't working but I don't know if that means anything any more.ģ: A program called MyBD decided they'd steal some files from MakeMKV, hide them, then sneak them onto the HDD when it needed to rip Blu Rays. You can get the free beta key from the MakeMKV forum: If you'd installed MakeMKV at one point and your trial has now expired the dlls simply won't work. 1: you need to match the 32 bit dll with a 32bit VLC player or 64 bit with 64 bit.Ģ: MakeMKV needs a key to work.

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