That’s what I saw, Brian, but there’s just one little catch. The download links don’t work, nothing happens. It may be a quirk of my individual system, I don’t know.
However, amid all this complaint, I found one more good reason to like and support VLC. I think I mentioned the other day its handling of the MASH DVD’s, especially the early ones. Any blind person who ever tackled these shows on any platform will testify that they are formidable. Not only does VLC make searching for episodes simple and elegant, I discovered it will play Disks from season 3 straight through with no problem. The Home feature, allowing continuous play of consecutive episodes, was not added until Season 5, so, up until now, a viewer had to choose and run each individual program from the first 4 seasons. True, individual audio or video settings (Alternate soundtracks, or subtitles( must be reset each time, but this really doesn’t take much time, given VLC’s menu system. Ted From: Brian Vogel [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, December 18, 2015 5:02 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: VLC It appears that all the DVDx, which is what you get to on SourceForge.net, is a joint project of labdv, bsg, and dvdx_dev groups. When I clicked link for the VLC 2.X with AACS<http://www.labdv.com/aacs/play-encrypted-bluray-with-vlc.php> link it opens this page, Play encrypted Blu-ray with VLC 2.x<http://www.labdv.com/aacs/play-encrypted-bluray-with-vlc.php>, on which there are two links for downloading items: * vlc-bluray-2.1.5-win64_nobdplus.zip<http://sourceforge.net/projects/dvdx/files/Open%20Blu-ray/VLC%20Blu-ray/vlc-bluray-2.1.5-win64_nobdplus.zip/download> for VLC 2.x 64-bit * aacs-updater-1.1-win32-setup.exe<http://sourceforge.net/projects/dvdx/files/Open%20Blu-ray/AACS%20Updater/aacs-updater-1.1-win32-setup.exe/download> and you are instructed to download the first, unzip it (of course), and once you do you'll find a file named spad-setup, which I'd presume is the setup. There is a slightly older version of the VLC player than is current bundled but you could install over that. It is the 64-bit version. The libaacs.dll is included in that install folder as well. The statement on that page is that there is not a functioning version of this for 32-bit (at least not from them) and this seems to be tied up with playing of Blu-ray only, not other media types including DVD. Then you are instructed to download the second and run it. They also suggest you create a shortcut to it so that you can run the updater every once in a while in case there have been updates, though I doubt that's necessary really. I haven't done any more digging into libbdplus and won't unless someone indicates it must be installed to view the Blu-ray discs available in the USA. I'm at a disadvantage here because I have no Blu-ray discs and none of the computers in my house, including this one, has a Blu-ray compatible player in it. Brian
