[mythtv-users] Blu-ray? How?

Dave Richardson mythtv at derdev.com
Mon Nov 22 13:31:04 UTC 2010


 On Sun, 21 Nov 2010 16:36:05 -0800, Robert McNamara 
 <robert.mcnamara at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
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 Robert, I am both pleased and thankful.  Hang in there.



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