I think Independence Day Resurgence killed my laptop's BD player

[Wilykit]

My laptop played Star Wars ESB BD without any issue last night but today I got the new BD of Independence Day Resurgence. After Corel WinDVD started up, it just up and quit with no message. Every attempt since then just makes a busy cursor for about 2 seconds and the program never loaded. I've restarted my laptop and put Star Wars BD back in, it still won't start. No error message, just never shows up in process (Task Manager).

I tried Leawo BD player and PotPlayer which are free. It also produced busy cursor and movie never loads. I can see the BD file in the explorer and there's simply no error message or anything to explain why I can no longer play BD video. If I use VLC, it still runs regular DVD but it does not support resumable playback on DVD so I have to sit through 30 minutes worth of unskipable ads, FBI warnings, and studio splash screens before I can even get to the menu. (it's stuff like this that are why few people rip or illegally download in the first place!) VLC does not work with BD, it reports many bad JAR files.

I tried Googling this and tried a few stuff but it seems nothing would let me play any BD video anymore. What are the chance the DRM update within ID:R locked out my BD-ROM? My laptop (Asus, i3, 12GB RAM) is about 6 months old, running Windows 10 64 bits. I do not have CD emulator or ripping software on the laptop.

[theewizard]

IDK
But did you try a system restore
You do have restore points? Right?

[october262]

Try dvdfab media player - http://forum.dvdfab.cn/showthread.php?t=29694

[Wilykit]

Tried that, got "FabPlayer.exe has stopped working" on the very first BD it tried to open.

IDK
But did you try a system restore
You do have restore points? Right?

Other than Windows update, no. My major restore point is from when I got the laptop new. It won't be an issue if I wiped and restarted since I only used 3 apps exclusively: Chrome browser (bookmarks and all are already backed up), WinDVD, and MPC for playing video off my drive, plus VLC for older video files that won't play nice like those with illegal DivX-3 encoding. The issue would be oh about 20,000 different Windows 10 updates in the last 6 months because it was basically "free" beta OS, not a proper finished OS like Windows XP and 7.

I tried my BD-ROM on my desktop computer using SATA to USB adapter (also running Windows 10, 64 bits, i5 CPU, 16GB RAM) and it worked fine with WinDVD so it is not my BD-ROM. Think a setting got borked on my laptop then. :/

[drjtech]

Try playing a DVD. If that works you know the red laser is OK. In that case it's possible you lost your blue laser. If so, it's probably a coincidence that it happened as you tried to play Independence Day Resurgence.

[Wilykit]

Already tried that. Plugged my laptop's BD-ROM into my desktop and ID:R played just fine on that. It's just my laptop that won't play BD video anymore for some reason. Going to go ahead and wipe the drive and reinstall Windows from the backup I made months ago.