Windows Media Player for Playing Blu-ray on Windows 10/8/7 PC

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Blu-Ray DVD error: “Windows Media Player cannot play the Blu-ray. The disc was created in a manner that the Player does not support.”

Upgrade to Windows 10 or Windows 8/7 and you may be surprised to find that you can no longer play video DVDs or Blu-ray. Unlike previous versions of Windows, Windows 10/8 don’t include built-in support for playing DVDs, even not say Blu-ray. Windows Media Player makes you enjoy nearly all kinds of videos on your Windows 10/8 computer. But it must meet its Waterloo in Blu-ray. That’s because Blu-ray has DRM copy protection, like AACS and BD+. If Microsoft corporation wants to play Blu-ray on Windows Media Player, he would have to pay Sony a royalty for Blu-ray technology. This cost is likely to be passed on to consumers. Therefore, Microsoft chooses to let the consumer decide on whether to pay to use Blu-ray technology.

For Windows 10/8/7 users, a common way to play Blu-ray on Windows Media Player is to use a external Blu-ray drive and download and install a codec pack. Media Player Codec Pack supercharges your Windows Media Player by adding support for dozens of new video and audio formats. Consumers can download codec pack from mediaplayercodecpack.com website, which offers consumers for a popular codec pack for Windows Media Player, that includes a number of popular codecs, including support for Blu-ray, which will allow you to play Blu-ray movies on Windows media player.

Another option to play Blu-ray on Windows Media Player is to use a third party Blu-ray ripping tool to remove Blu-ray copy protection and transcode Blu-ray to Windows Media Player supported formats. So that you can succeed in playing Blu-ray movies using Windows Media Player. UFUSoft Blu-ray Ripper is a good choice to get the above job done. This Blu-ray ripping program can rip and backup Blu-ray to Windows Media Player in AVI, MP4, WAV, WMA, VOB, etc at ultra fast speed on Windows 10/8.1/8/7 pc. With continuous decryption technology updating, it can rip new released and region-locked Blu-ray disc for Windows Media Player. Besides, you can extract audio from the Blu-ray movies: MP3, AC3, WMA, M4A, WAV, OGG, AAC, MKA, MP2, AIFF, FLAC, etc. audio formats are supported. In addition, it also can backup DVD to Windows Media Player.

Steps to rip and copy Blu-ray to Windows 10/8/7 Media Player?

Step 1. Inserting the Blu-ray disc, run the Blu-ray ripper on PC, click “File” ＞ “Load from disc” to import Blu-ray movies.

Step 2. Click “Format” bar to choose HD Video, then select H.264 HD Video(*.mp4) or HD WMV as the target format for Windows Media Player.

Step 3: Click Convert to start to rip Blu-ray to Windows Media Player on Windows 10/8/7.

Tip: If you don’t want to rip or convert Blu-ray discs, you can directly hire a powerful and professinal Windows 10 Blu-ray Player Software to play blu-ray disc, blu-ray folder or blu-ray iso movies on Windows pc. It is very easy for use and let you enjoy original Blu-ray video/audio effect.