Let's do an experiment, you can try to play your 4K Blu-ray discs on your multiple Blu-ray drives on multiple PC's. Later, you will find that no one can recognize it. Actually, many people discovered that they can put in any other blu-ray or 3D blu-ray and they work fine the only disc they wont see is the 4K Ultra HD. 4K Blu-ray playback sucks on PCs. The software is atrocious. So to play 4K Blu-ray on PC, you can try to rip the 4K Blu-ray to 4K H.265 video and play 4K H.265 video with HEVC players on Windows.
Ripping 4K Blu-ray to HEVC video can compress the video size when keeping the picture quality. Then you can play 4K HEVC video with HEVC player on Windows. Pavtube ByteCopy is a small program that runs on the background and detects whenever you insert a DVD or Blu-ray disc in your drive. It then runs by placing itself between the data your drive provides and the operating system, circumventing any known protection mechanisms the disc may have, automatically providing you with an unprotected disc, ready to be copied or ripped. It also removes the region code, plus the AACS encryption and the BD+ copy protection, MKB v61, MKB v62 most Blu-ray discs have.
With this Blu-ray Ripping tool, you can rip 4K Blu-ray to HEVC MKV, HEVC MP4 for your HEVC player on Windows. Or you can play the converted 4K Blu-ray HEVC files via Roku 4 on 4K TV. This Blu-ray Ripper supports to bypass 4K Blu-ray encryption and then convert Blu-ray to HEVC files at up to 30x times speed cause it supports the newest NVIDIA CUDA hardware acceleration, which saves you a lot of time of 4K Blu-ray ripping.
Start to Rip 4K Blu-ray to H.265 Video Up to 30X Speed for HEVC Player on Windows
Step 1. Load 4K Blu-ray movies
Install and launch the best 4K Blu-ray to H.265 Converter program. Insert your Blu-ray disc into your BD drive, and click “Load from disc” icon to load your 4k Blu-ray movies and DVD discs. You can also import movies files from Blu-ray folder, ISO and DVD folder and DVD ISO/IFO. Read Pavtube ByteCopy review.
Step 2: Choose H.265 MP4
Click "Format" to open the drop-down window and choose H.265 HD MP4 video in "HD Video" catelog. You also can choose HD MKV from HD Video category and set video codes to x265 in "Settings" to choose to rip 4K Blu-ray to H.265 MKV. Meanwhile, you are allowed to adjust profile parameters like display resolution, bitrate, frame rate, audio sample rate to achieve the best video and audio playback on your device.
Step 3. Utilizing Nvidia GPU Hardware Acceleration In ByteCopy
Now, move your cursor to “Tools” button on the top of the main interface to choose “Options”. Then you can enable GPU Encode acceleration. You need to check if your graphic card supports CUDA acceleration from here. .
Step 4: Start ripping 4k Blu-ray to H.265/HEVC MP4
Hit on the “Convert” button and 4k Blu-ray to H.265/HEVC video Conversion begins. When the conversion is done, open output folder, find the ripped movie inoutput folder. Then you can play these HEVC video with HEVC media players on Windows.
Top 5 HEVC Players to Play HEVC/H.265 Videos on Windows Smoothly
# 1: 5KPlayer
5KPlayer is a sophisticated free HEVC player as well as a 4K video player, to some extent, which delivers high quality playback of 4K/5K/8K, H.265, MP4, MKV, AVI and even DVD, 360 degree video playback on Mac or Windows. Besides the ability to play HEVC UHD videos, it also features various other abilities like playing music in AAC, MP3, FLAC etc and organizing video & music files easily.
# 2: Potplayer
Potplayer also serves as a free HEVC player for HEVC/H.265 encoded videos playing as well as any other multimedia formats or codecs like H.264, MP4, FLV, MKV, AVI, MOV etc. Besides, other than the powerful ability of playing HEVC codec videos, you can alsodownload 3D and blu-ray movies/videos for playing on this marvelous video player, which makes it unique among the best HEVC players. But sadly it's only available on Windows.
# 3： VLC Player
VLC player has support for a very large range of codecs, making it possible to play back virtually any type of video file (as well as audio). It can also play DVDs and various streaming protocols. The VLC project has merged support for x265 to provide support for HEVC/H.265 in the popular open-source cross-platform media player. It is available for free for Mac OS X and for Windows machines.
# 4： DivX Player
DivX Player is promoted as a very high quality media player and is known as another robust HEVC video file player. It supports DivX HEVC video with the HEVC plugin, as well as regular DivX and DivX Plus. By using its DivX Media Server one can stream music, video and photos to any DLNA-compatible device at home like PS3, XBOX, or Samsung Galaxy line of product. With the Stream To feature in player user can also control which device they can stream their videos to.
# 5： Hoid P HEVC H265 Video Player
Hoid P HEVC H265 Video Player is a video player that supports High Efficiency Video Coding format – H.265. This media player for Android allows you to play h265 videos, h264, prores, mxf videos and more formats. Hoid is the first app. for Android that allows you to play files encoded in the new High Efficiency Video Coding format.
Src: http://techmovieshare.blogspot.com/2017/01/rip-4k-blu-ray-to-hevc.html
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