[mythtv-users] Blu-ray Playback

Robert McNamara robert.mcnamara at gmail.com
Fri Jul 16 01:49:24 UTC 2010


Thought some of you might enjoy this.

Over the past several months, a number of us have been working hard at
Blu-ray playback in Myth.  The libraries used are still in their
infancy, but as of tonight, although not easy (and requires the
installation of some external libs and editing of key files for them,
as well as some configuration unique to each drive), it is possible to
play back some retail blu-ray disks, direct from the disk, in MythTV.
Disks which are AACS-protected only with MKV versions 10 or less will
play successfully straight off the disk.  To give you some idea, I
have a few dozen films, all a few years old, with the newest being The
Dark Knight.  All play successfully in Myth.

Thanks to some collaboration amongst a number of us, Blu-ray playback,
(limited) encrypted Blu-ray playback, chapter navigation, correct
seeking, and title switching between the various items on the disk are
all possible, including proper playback of the HD Audio codecs at
their native bit depths and numbers of channels thanks to the work of
Jean Yves and Foobum, in trunk, which will ultimately become MythTV
0.24 in a couple months.  I daresay MythTV has by far the most
advanced native Blu-ray playback implementation in Linux.  The above
features are not available by default in MPlayer, XBMC, Xine, VLC, or
anywhere else.

I'll reiterate that it's not easy, there are some configuration
hurdles (all outside of Myth code) to overcome to make retail disk
playback work, but it is very, very possible.

Robert


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