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

Matt Emmott memmott at gmail.com
Tue Jun 26 18:59:35 UTC 2012


On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 9:26 AM, Jean-Yves Avenard <jyavenard at gmail.com>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...
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>
That's pretty awesome, you should add a howto to the wiki somewhere. I bet
a lot of users would find this very helpful.

I assume you somehow have AnyDVD set to auto-export only the main title so
none of the special features / menus are available to Myth, correct?
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