[mythtv-users] Blu-ray playback in XBMC (Lifehacker)

[Thomas Mashos]

On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 8:55 AM, Robert McNamara
<robert.mcnamara at gmail.com>wrote:

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> On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 8:31 AM, Robert McNamara <
> robert.mcnamara at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 8:29 AM, <boehm100 at comcast.net> wrote:
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>>> I thought Mythtv  understood the Blu-ray file structure but did not
>>> understand commercial disks.  The link in the previous message was used for
>>> viewing commercial disks.  This, I believe, is new and a very exciting
>>> feature.
>>>
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>> MythTV does not include decryption code.
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>> It does, however, make use of external decryption libraries when the user
>> has them installed, just like DVD playback.  I am able to watch all of my
>> Blu-ray films straight from the disc, in Myth.  Granted, my discs are
>> slightly older and don't use BD+, but libbdplus is maturing as well.
>>
>> Robert
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> I also meant to mention that as of last night, thanks to the hard work of
> Chris Pinkham, Blu-ray, DVD, and ISO playback via storage group is now
> possible, meaning you can house all of your discs all across your backends,
> using storage groups, and adding new frontends will "just work" with no
> additional configuration, and no network mounts required.  Add to that the
> fact that we are dangerously close to being able to do HDMV menus in
> blu-ray, you can switch between titles on Blu-ray in Myth, Myth has
> multi-angle, proper subtitle and audio track handling... and using some hack
> to stream a title to XBMC is a tough sell.
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> Robert
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Awesome news Robert. Great work! Will that make it into 0.24?
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