[mythtv-users] Blu-Ray player? Myth capable?

Mark Hutchinson mark at onnow.net
Mon Feb 25 17:29:41 UTC 2008


jedi at mishnet.org wrote:
>> On Feb 25, 2008, at 9:53 AM, Mark Hutchinson wrote:
>>     
>>> Any one else have ideas?  Ways to convert etc....  I own these
>>> movies, I
>>> just want to see them in Myth.  I am even willing to convert in
>>> Windows
>>> to get this done first, then transfer.
>>>       
>> Actually you do not "own" those movies. You purchased a license to
>> view them under circumstances specified in that license (you did read
>> it, right?).
>>     
>
>     That's just what the studios want you to think.
>
>   
>> Technically it is still illegal to view a conventional DVD under
>> Linux, at least in the USA.
>>     
>
>     The illegal part is distributing the player. More precisely, it's
> distributing the "encryption cracking" part. Some DVDs don't have this
> legal issue.
>
>   
>> I suspect a Linux Blu-Ray viewing solution will come along, but will
>> still be a violation of the DMCA.
>>
>> I'm anything but an apologist for the MPAA, but that's what their
>> position is, and so far the courts have backed them up.
>>     
>
>     So when are they arresting the SlySoft guys?
>
>     DVD Jon has a US company. He should also be an obvious target.
>
>     Who's gotten sued or arrested for putting their DVDs on their ipod?
>
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Well said.  So, how to get Blu-ray into Myth? Slysoft AnyDVD get RIP 
this to some extent (m2ts) , but how to get that to avi or something 
Myth can read?


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