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

[Robert McNamara]

On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 9:55 AM, Thomas Mashos <tgm4883 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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>>>
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>>> On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 8:29 AM, <boehm100 at comcast.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>
>>> MythTV does not include decryption code.
>>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> Robert
>>
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> Awesome news Robert. Great work! Will that make it into 0.24?
>
>
Yes, all of the above (with the exception of HDMV menus, which will probably
be .25) will be in .24 (coming Novemberish to a distro near you ;)  ).

Robert
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