[mythtv-users] Blu-Ray player? Myth capable?
Phil Bridges
gravityhammer at gmail.com
Mon Feb 25 17:01:07 UTC 2008
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 11:53 AM, Mark Hutchinson <mark at onnow.net> wrote:
> Ben Coates wrote:
> >
> > I'm about to do the same and purchase a Blu-ray drive to play Blu-ray
> > movies on my main myth box.
> >
> > What I'd like to know is - how to play Blu-ray discs in linux...
> >
> > If anyone has any recommendations for what's supported under linux (or
> > what to avoid), I'd be very grateful.
> >
> >
> > On 2/25/08, *Mark Hutchinson* <mark at onnow.net <mailto:mark at onnow.net>>
>
> > wrote:
> >
> > I have read the wiki and such on Blu-ray, but still have some
> > questions.
> >
> > I purchased an LD Blu-ray/HD-DVD player. With UDF 2.5 patched
> > into the
> > kernel, it is seen fine.
> > I also have a Winblows box with AnyDVD that can see and play this fine
> > with PowerDVD.
> >
> > My goal is to be able to see the Blu-Ray DVD I have purchased in
> > MythTV.
> > Does anyone know a way to rip to avi or mpeg or anything so as to be
> > able to view in myth?
> > They are in m2ts files now ( about 30 of them in some cases )
> >
> > Thoughts? Advice? What might work?
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> The best way would be to simply have Mplayer or Xine be able to play a
> blu-ray disk. I dont think this works now though. Mplayer SVN can play
> .EVO files, but I have had no luck trying to convert blu-ray to EVO.
> There must be some simpler way. If there were an equivilent to PowerDVD
> in the Linux space, maybe.
> Any one else have ideas? Ways to convert etc.... I own these movies, I
> just want to see them in Myth. I am even willing to convert in Windows
> to get this done first, then transfer.
>
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats/BluRayAndHDDVD
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