Last updated on 2013-05-29, by David Brooks

How to play Blu-ray disc on Windows 8 with professional Blu-ray disc player software

With large storage and high quality, Blu-ray becomes more and more popular for people’s digital entertainment. However, due to Sony’s license, it’s pretty difficult to play Blu-ray on PC. But there’re a few solutions. To play Blu-ray on PC, or let’s say play Blu-ray on Windows 8, the first thing is to make sure the hardware reaches the requirements of Blu-ray playback. The most important hardware for Blu-ray playback is a Blu-ray drive. Besides, it also requires a beefy processor, plenty of memory, a graphics card with very specific characteristics and monitor with HDCP support.

Then, for software, to play Blu-ray disc on PC, currently very few Blu-ray disc player software programs could be made use of. Leawo Blu-ray Player Software is one of the most top-rated Blu-ray playback software to help you play Blu-ray discs smoothly with high quality. This Blu-ray disc player software is exclusively designed Blu-ray player software for Windows 8. It could offer the best cinema-like experience of HD movie enjoying. Check the below detailed steps to know how to play Blu-ray disc on PC with the expert Blu-ray disc player software.

Full Guide

Load source Blu-ray disc

Insert Blu-ray disc into the BD drive. After you download and install this Blu-ray player software on your PC, launch it. On the home interface of this Blu-ray disc player software, you can see two options: Open File and disc name. Click on the disc name and the Blu-ray playback software would start to play disc.

Subtitle settings

This Blu-ray playback software allows users to set subtitles for easy enjoying. On the upper left of the playback screen, people could click the "T" icon to set subtitles.

Video settings

On the upper left, users could also do video settings during Blu-ray disc playback.

Audio settings

To set audios, just take a click on the audio icon on the upper left corner of the playback screen.

More settings are available: Users could choose to play back and watch Blu-ray disc with this Blu-ray disc player software in full screen, freely choose to play back chapters or bonus features of a Blu-ray disc, etc.