[mythtv-users] BD+ cracked in Linux now

Nick Rout nick.rout at gmail.com
Tue Nov 4 23:43:57 UTC 2008


On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 2:54 AM, Andrew Lyon <andrew.lyon at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 8:22 PM, Mitch Gore <mitchell.gore at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 12:52 PM, Johnny Russ <jruss at mit.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>> I saw this on slashdot today
>>> (http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/01/1728222). I thought some
>>> people on the list who would like to incorporate a Blu-ray player into their
>>> setup would like to know that some of the people over at Doom9 have
>>> successfully cracked the BD+ DRM so that Blu-ray discs can now be played in
>>> Linux. It is currently not a straightforward process but it seems like
>>> things are already on the move to code up the necessary software to make
>>> this more widely available.
>>
>> now if a hardware manufacturer would release h.264/vc-1 acceleration support
>> it might be feasible.  I dont want to have to buy a top of the line Proc to
>> decode these video's with!
>
> http://www.reel-multimedia.com/en/extension_linux_technische_daten.html

Looks good until you click on "software" and it says "Shortly you will
find software for the extension HD in this section.... "

Does anyone actually have one of these working on linux and more
specifically mythtv?


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