[mythtv-users] Can MythTV play blu-rays?

[Paul Gardiner]

On 26/06/2012 12:29, Jean-Yves Avenard wrote:
> On 26 June 2012 21:25, Paul Gardiner <lists at glidos.net> wrote:
>> Yeah, I read that and BD+ isn't supported. I'm trying to find out how
>> much that matters. Are most current releases BD+, making MythTV a pretty
>> useless Blu-ray player, or are they fairly rare? Someone out here shoud
>> know, but getting an answer out of this list is like... well... I don't
>> know... like trying to get someone to look over a submitted source
>> patch! :-)
>
> Any bluray released in the past 2 years will be BD+
>
> it's not all hopeless with tools like MakeMKV or AnyDVD-HD.
> I use the later in a windows 7 VM and export the decyrpted image and
> play it from mythtv.
>
> While it sounds complicated, it really isn't.. And from the time I
> insert a bluray to the time I can play it and see the movie starting,
> it takes about 12-15s...
> Compare that with my dedicated panasonic BD player that will take well
> over 90s to play most title.. and it's a fast one at that !

Right. Thanks for info. That would be ok for my own frontend, but it's
my girlfriend's frontend that I'm trying to add Blu-ray support to.
She'll want to just put in a disc and play it. :-( I'd quite like
that myself to be honest. I'm guessing you don't have what you describe
as a completely automated solution.

MakeMKV sounds interesting in that I read it can stream the unencrypted
data, but since the wiki instructs to use VLC to play the stream, I'm
guessing internal player cannot do it. I wonder how hard it would be to
import MakeMKV's decryption into mythtv.