On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 12:00 PM, Raymond Wagner <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:raymond@wagnerrp.com">raymond@wagnerrp.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On 5/24/2011 12:50, Eric Sharkey wrote:<br>
> On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 10:09 AM, Kenneth Emerson<br>
> <<a href="mailto:kenneth.emerson@gmail.com">kenneth.emerson@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> Will I be able to play rented Blu-Ray disks through MythTV?<br>
> Not easily. With MythTV 0.24 you can't just pop in the disc and hit<br>
> play they way you can for a DVD.<br>
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</div>Yes you can.<br>
<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br></div></div></blockquote><div><br>Only for discs made before summer 2009.<br><br>For discs made after then you will have to use makemkv (closed-source) to rip them to disk. There is also a streaming feature, but I don't find it very useful. Makemkv is currently in free beta, but may be a pay-for app at some point.<br>
<br>MythTV 0.24 will let you navigate titles, chapters, audio tracks and subtitles but won't show the disc menus like in a DVD. I believe this will be enabled in 0.25.<br><br>The reason MythTV (and other open-source apps) can't play newer discs is because the newer Private Keys haven't been discovered (at least, not by anybody who will release them publicly.)<br>
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