Create library entries for your disc collection on your server so that the external player definitions in Emby Theater get triggered to play the discs.

Create external player definitions within Emby Theater.

Install software to enable your PC to play your commercial Blu-ray discs.

Your PC also needs to have sufficient horsepower for the processing required – though most available nowadays will have this. Of course, whether you rip or play, your PC needs to be equipped with a drive capable of reading Blu-ray discs though the approach I use will work with DVDs alone if you only have a DVD drive. Being able to play your discs directly can avoid a lot of potential concerns though it can introduce others of its own. You may like watching the extra features included on your multi-disc sets and don’t relish the extra effort to organise them for the server.

You may find yourself repeating rips trying to identify the correct language version you want - video, audio or subtitles. However you may have a reason why you don’t want to do this. This makes it accessible to the widest selection of Emby clients. The general recommendation from the Emby team is to have all your media “online” on your server and for media on the discs you own this means ripping to HDD in some way. Through the course of this information I’ll also include any relevant experiences of my own in case they help with troubleshooting in the event someone making use of this advice hits a problem.

Due to the mists of time I don’t have the original references/links to share but I’d like to doff my cap to the trailblazers and forward-thinking software developers whose original work this is based on. As such, a lot of the detail is obtained from others work that had been published on the internet.

A lot of the details within this post are based on information I have gleaned over the last few years when I set up commercial Blu-ray disc playback within my WMC installation which I am now in the process of replacing with Emby Theater.

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