Recommended software to do this? I have a higher end pc, and a ASUS BC-12B1ST optical drive.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004SUO068/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
I was looking at CyberLink PowerDVD 14 Ultra but I want to know any other alternatives that offer bells and whistles similar to their TrueTheater stuff.
It HAS to be able to playback in HD and higher fps. I'm addicted to the smooth motion.
I appreciate any help, thanks.
Before you go and pay money for software you don't really need (isn't the standard Media Player integrated in Windows capable of doing this?) try THIS, it should play everything.
The quality/Frame rate has nothing to do with the player used . . . it depends on the video itself and the codec used. If the video is in PAL it plays with 25fps no matter what codec/player you use, if the video is in NTSC it plays with 29,97fps. The quality depends on the Kbps of the video stream, a video with 5000Kbps (1080p) will look better then a video with 1000Kbps (1080p (same codec)).
Ive been playing with that software from your link for the past hour and a half, I cant recreate the effect I had going with my trial of PowerDVD. My trial ran out a while ago, but I remember it having a hardware/software decoding option and that was how I ran my dvds to get that higher frame rate look before.
I use a combination of svp, mpc-hc, madvr and reclock to do this (you can get these all packaged together from the svp site).
To play blurays in real time without licensed software you will need to get anydvd hd, which is paid software but it can decrypt blurays and DVDs in real time so you can play them with any player which supports the codec.
If you don't want to pay for it there are alternatives that will let you rip a bluray to hard drive and then you can play it, but as far as I know anydvd is the only one which does it in real time.
If you try svp the default settings will give you the same higher frame rate effect you get from some TV's. If you don't like that I've found that the best settings are to leave everything at default but change the top option to uniform (can't remember what it's called) and artefact masking to the highest setting. This gives a much more subtle frame smoothening effect.