[mythtv-users] Blu-ray? How?

[Robert McNamara]

On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 4:21 PM, Fedor Pikus <fpikus at gmail.com> wrote:
> I just rip them using makemkv
> (http://www.makemkv.com/forum2/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=224) and play them
> without any previews and demos and other crap.

Playing them with MythTV straight off the disc doesn't play previews,
demos, or any other crap.  It also gets you title switching,
multi-angle support, chapter navigation, access to all the extras, all
the metadata about all the tracks, and all the other niceties of
having a disc (minus the menus, which hopefully will be partially
supported in .25).

Sorry that linux is currently limited as to what decryption is
supported, but we *do* support Blu-ray playback of any properly
authored disc or disc structure.  MythTV doesn't provide any
decryption code whatsoever, that's all provided by libaacs/libbdplus,
which are limited by the publicly available Processing Keys (up to
MKBv10 right now, or early-mid 2009 or so discs in real life
parlance).  I understand that to many people these things are a black
and white issue (it works for everything, or it doesn't work at all in
their minds) but this is how open source (especially when it comes to
media) works.  We have to take the initial steps to get things
supported, or we'd never get anywhere.  It makes me a little sad and
disheartened when people express such strong disappointment that we're
not "all the way there" yet.  I just don't know another way to get
there, especially when decryption hinges on code we neither ship nor
control.  Meanwhile all I and others can do is continue to polish the
code we *do* control, namely a great experience within MythTV itself
for accessing extras, angles, multiple language audio, subtitle, and
video tracks, menu support, etc.

Guess you can please some of the people some of the time, but there
will always be some people you can't please any of the time.  ;)

Robert