[mythtv-users] Any Blu-Ray success stories?

[Mark Anderson]

Well, I guess it's about as encouraging as I thought from my Google crawling.

I'm still on the fence about returning this LG BD drive.

I'm a sucker for newness, I work for a CPU designer, but this is far
enough from my day job to be "hobby-as-work".

Thanks for the notes!

-Mark

On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 4:29 PM, Jean-Yves Avenard <jyavenard at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> 2008/9/12 Florin Andrei <florin at andrei.myip.org>:
>> I am under the impression that DumpHD relies on a database of keys that
>> you need to keep updated and that may miss the key(s) for just the disk
>> you want to watch. Am I wrong?
>
> There is a database of keys available on the doom9 forum ; however I
> found that most of the keys were missing for the disks I bought.
>
> You have a tool called aacskeys that can retrieve the key for the disk
> currently in your drive.
>
> Finding aacskeys isn't too easy unfortunately, google it
>
>>
>> I've heard most people say that AnyDVD HD works great for BD decrypting
>> on Windows. I find it hard to believe it will work under WINE, due to
>> the way the application operates, but you never know. Somebody should
>> try it and let everyone know.
>>
>> Now, according to Internet chatter, DVDFab HD Decrypter is known to work
>> pretty well with DVD under WINE and it's free. It should work with BD
>> under Windows, is my guess. Anybody tried to watch their legally
>> purchased BD with it on Linux yet?
>>
>> http://www.dvdfab.com/free.htm
>>
>> Of course, even assuming you solve decryption, then just playing HD
>> compressed with AVC or VC-1 (two out of the three codecs used by BD) may
>> not be quite trivial on Linux.
>> I know for a fact that interlaced (1080i) AVC, as created by AVCHD
>
> But most (all?) bluray are using 1080p
>
>> Then there's the issue of the sound tracks. AC3 is definitely playable
>> on Linux. So is PCM. Not so sure about DTS and the other common formats.
>> Some disks offer 5.1 (and higher) only in DTS or some other kind of
>> strange formats. I don't want to be restricted to 2.0 audio.
>
> I leave to my sound processor all that task ; just configure your
> player to pass-through any DTS or AC3 sound stream
>
> It's not easy to watch a bluray on linux and you certainly need a lot
> of patience
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