Playing Blu-ray File Structure from Hard Drive

[DorianDW]

Is there a way to play Blu-ray files from a hard drive to check it before burning it to a disc? I use Adobe Encore to create the file structure needed for Blu-rays and I want to play it with the menus, chapters... not just the video files on my computer to check it before burning to disc. I know Encore has a preview option, but I'm not fond of it. With DVDs I just clicked the VIDEOT_TS.ifo file. Thanks.

[Cornucopia]

No, not really much choice: If you just wanted to play the M2TS files, VLC and others can do that. If you want the whole BD menu structure/navigation experience to test (as you say), you'll either need to use a commercial software BD player (Cyberlink PowerDVD, Corel WinDVD, or Arcsoft TMT) or a hardware player. No other software has achieved true, full BD player emulation status.

Scott

[DB83]

What about

https://www.videohelp.com/software/Leawo-Blu-ray-Player

??

[DorianDW]

I have PowerDVD but I can't even figure out how to open the Blu-ray with menus in it. I tried to open it by navigate to the folder, but only the M2TS files came up as playable.

[Kerry56]

What about

https://www.videohelp.com/software/Leawo-Blu-ray-Player

??

Leawo Player has improved enormously over the last couple of years, but it still fails to open some Blu-ray menus. For those, it just skips to the main feature.

[Cornucopia]

@DB83, yes forgot about that (probably because I have a bias against Leawo products which have in the past been too-simplistic & shoddy). Might work.

@DorianDW, Arcsoft TMT can certainly do discimage-based and folder-based emulation playback/testing. I had thought the other 2 were to be upgraded to include those features, but if they haven't yet, you'll have to either try to trick them (by something like SUBST mounting) or burn them, or use Arcsoft.

Scott

[Kerry56]

Only problem with advising to use TMT is that it isn't sold anymore. There isn't even a trial to download.

[Cornucopia]

ebay, etc.