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

Paul Gardiner lists at glidos.net
Tue Jun 26 18:12:30 UTC 2012


On 26/06/2012 14:26, Jean-Yves Avenard wrote:
> On 26 June 2012 22:29, Paul Gardiner <lists at glidos.net> wrote:
> => 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's exactly what I do.
>
> the BD drive is allocated to the VM (which runs on the frontend)
> I insert the disk in the forntend, AnyDVD automatically reads it.
>
> Then I select my custom play BluRay entry that mounts a directory from
> the Windows PC and plays it with mythavtest
>
> It couldn't be easier...
>
> There is one downside I admit... you still have to get up to put the
> disk in the drive's tray...

Oh right. That is nice.


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