I have a question for OP, most if not all the players listed above, specially something like VLC, will not be able to get past BRD encryption if we are talking about a movie, how do you plan to get past that?
AnyDVD HD.
removes encryption, allows you to copy movies to your hard drive.
As I said before, for the $49 JRiver costs, it is the best program I have used to manage both my music and video collection. it does everything I need it to, and more.
Rips music into almost any format
converts music you have to almost any format, so I no longer need to have several copies of each song for different mobile play back devices.
(I now rip my music as Flac, which is a lossless format. Then use JRiver to convert to MP3's for my mobile devices)
Rips both DVD and BRD disks to my hard drive, (I do need AnyDVD HD to do this)
Check it out, you can make it as simple or as complex as you would like.