Two free blu-ray software programs - opinions?

[DreamBliss]

In another thread of mine it was mentioned that most blu-ray players do not come with software to play blu-ray discs, and this software can cost $100.00 or so. I did a quick Google and came up with these:
http://www.videohelp.com/tools/PotPlayer
http://www.winxdvd.com/resource/free-blu-ray-player.htm

Just curious if anyone has tried either of these, and how well it worked, or didn't. I guess VLC has blu-ray support, but not the encoding part, so it can only play unencrypted discs if I understand what they are saying. That would have been my first choice of player.

Well let me know, and thanks in advance!

 

[octoberasian]

I've ne'er tried or heard of the Winxdvd DAPlayer, but I have used PotPlayer before. It works pretty well and I've used it mostly for DVDs.

There is some amount of manual setting up, well in my case since I was using it on a laptop. Other than that, I haven't had any minor or major issues with it.

 

[munkle]

VLC can play encrypted disks you just need to do some manual setup with some files. I did it once just to try it out and it worked but I have powerdvd and just use that.