[mythtv-users] cannot play bluray or dvd's in .27

[Tony Guadagno]

Jean-Yves,

ok, i have made some progress.  first, i don't think i had the aacs keys in place.  i installed them.  but also, your suggestion about the region was very helpful.  this is a new LG drive and you are right, it had no region on it.  I stumbled upon the regionset command and now i am able to play (in vlc and mythtv) some dvds.  I say some because the first on i happened to pick out of a pile (of course) does not play.  the second one i chose does play.
  On the bluray side, i have had less success.  i cannot get 2 different bluray disks to play.  in both cases, vlc throws errors.

On the subject of Bluray, as i learn more about it i am getting the impression that even if i can get aacs encoded discs to play, the new bd+ will never work....is this true?  if so, is there a pay product that i could use (on debian) to integrate with mythtv?

thanks for all your help!!!!



Tony Guadagno

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Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] cannot play bluray or dvd's in .27



Le samedi 1 f?vrier 2014, Tony Guadagno <tonyg at guadagno.org<mailto:tonyg at guadagno.org>> a ?crit :
Hi, I am new to MythTV.  I have set up a backend and frontend.  I am installing on Debian (7.3) and using deb-multimedia's version of .27.  most functions seem to work very well on the frontend, i am able to stream from the backend live tv as well as recorded shows.  one thing that does not work is playing dvd's and blueray's.  I have googled and checked the suggestions I have found.  for example, there is a /dev/dvd linked to /dev/sr0.  also, there is a /media/cdrom that contains the bluray when inserted.  I am using nvidia drivers (current) with a geforce 630 hdmi to my stereo.  audio and video are fine when streaming from the backend.  here is some info that might be

>From your log there can be one or two possible issue:
If DVD:
1- you are missing libdvdcss
2- your drive is region locked, and the region your DVD drive is set to doesn't match the zone of the disk inserted.

For possibility 2, depending on the brand of the disk (LG, Panasonic/Matshita in particular) do not let you access physically access the disk content unless the two zones matches. So you either have to set the proper zone first (if new, LG and matshita for example aren't set to any zones and won't read any disks out of the box). Other alternative is flashing a RPC-0 or RPC-1 firmware (check rpc1.org<http://rpc1.org>)

If bluray:
-you must have libaacs installed and configured (that include having found a aacs keys file: google AACS keys VLC) with the keys installed in ~/.mythtv/KEYDB.cfg. Read: http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/High_Definition_Disk_Formats

Mythtv at present only supports playback of AACS encrypted bluray, provided you have the keys for it, and it's not too recent.
Bluray encrypted with BD+ required at present a commercial solution: anydvd HD or makeMKV. It's explained on the wiki.

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