XBMC Blu Ray Support

I am currently running XBMC 10.1 and wondering if there is a way to get XBMC to play Blu Rays directly from the drive? I know it can't do it natively but wondering if there are any plugins that will do it?

I have a licensed copy of Cyberlink PowerDVD 8 that plays Blu Rays just fine and if this can be integrated in, that be awesome, but cant seem to find anything.

Anyone have any ideas?

I'm sure you can. I use TMT5 to play ripped ISO's and once mounted they show up in XBMC on the main menu. When I select one it just loads TMT and plays it. You may just need the ISO code below.

To get XBMC to launch MPC-HC for MKV’s and TMT5 to play BD ISO’s:

Create a file called playercorefactory.xml and put it in c:\Users\Dan\AppData\Roaming\xbmc\userdata

With the following text pasted in:

<playercorefactory>
<players>
<player name="MPC-HC" type="ExternalPlayer" audio="false" video="true">
<filename>C:\Program Files (x86)\Media Player Classic - Home Cinema\mpc-hc.exe</filename>
<args>"{1}" /fullscreen /close</args>
<hidexbmc>false</hidexbmc>
<hideconsole>false</hideconsole>
<warpcursor>none</warpcursor>
<playcountminimumtime>3600</playcountminimumtime>
</player>
<player name="TMT5" type="ExternalPlayer" audio="false" video="true">
<filename>C:\Users\Dan\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\userdata\Mount.bat</filename>
<args></args>
<forceontop>false</forceontop>
<hidexbmc>false</hidexbmc>
<hideconsole>false</hideconsole>
</player>
</players>
<rules action="prepend">
<rule filetypes="mkv" player="MPC-HC"/>
<rule filetypes="ts" player="MPC-HC"/>
<rule filetypes="avi" player="MPC-HC"/>
<rule filetypes="iso" player="TMT5"/>
</rules>
</playercorefactory>


For Blu-ray .ISO compatibility, create a .bat file named Mount.bat in c:\Users\Dan\AppData\Roaming\xbmc\userdata and cut/paste the following code into this file:


"C:\Program Files (x86)\Elaborate Bytes\VirtualCloneDrive\VCDMount.exe" /d=0 %1
"C:\Program Files (x86)\ArcSoft\TotalMedia Theatre 5\uMCEPlayer5.exe" E:

Where E: above is your VCD drive letter.
uMCEPlayer works better with remote as it&#8217;s for MCE and the back button exits the app.

TMT5

Disable BD Java
Enable refresh rate switching.

I found a pretty simple way. Apparently MakeMKV has a streaming feature of disks and there is a plugin for XBMC to connect to the streaming server.

Takes about 5 minutes to get a Blu Ray disk read by the MakeMKV streaming server and then it works perfectly.

dvd fab passkey does on the fly decryption
xbmc will play the index file if the disk isn't encrypted