[mythtv-users] Blu-Ray Drives and MythTV

[Frank Phillips]

On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 12:00 PM, Raymond Wagner <raymond at wagnerrp.com>wrote:

> On 5/24/2011 12:50, Eric Sharkey wrote:
> > On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 10:09 AM, Kenneth Emerson
> > <kenneth.emerson at gmail.com>  wrote:
> >> Will I be able to play rented Blu-Ray disks through MythTV?
> > Not easily.  With MythTV 0.24 you can't just pop in the disc and hit
> > play they way you can for a DVD.
>
> Yes you can.
>
>
Only for discs made before summer 2009.

For discs made after then you will have to use makemkv (closed-source) to
rip them to disk. There is also a streaming feature, but I don't find it
very useful. Makemkv is currently in free beta, but may be a pay-for app at
some point.

MythTV 0.24 will let you navigate titles, chapters, audio tracks and
subtitles but won't show the disc menus like in a DVD. I believe this will
be enabled in 0.25.

The reason MythTV (and other open-source apps) can't play newer discs is
because the newer Private Keys haven't been discovered (at least, not by
anybody who will release them publicly.)
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