[mythtv-users] Blu-ray? How?

[Fedor Pikus]

On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 3:16 PM, Matt Emmott <memmott at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 6:11 PM, DaveD <mythtv at guiplot.com> wrote:
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>> I've been all over the new 0.24 and haven't found any mention of anything
>> to do with blue-ray.  I put in a rented blu-ray disk and no response (had to
>> boot under Windoze to watch it.  Yuck!).  Couldn't find any mention of howto
>> in the wiki or in the archives.  Is there a howto somewhere?  A plugin?  I'm
>> using FC13 (Atrpms).
>>
>> Dave D.
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> Here's the wiki entry:
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/High_Definition_Disk_Formats#Playing_Hi-Definition_Material
>
> Good luck. Like you, I saw in the release notes and mailing list that 0.24
> now "supports Blu-Ray" playback, so I bought a drive off newegg and a couple
> discs, and thought that it would "just work". I was sorely mistaken. I
> haven't spent much time looking into it yet but it appears you need to have
> the decrypt key for every disc you want to play ahead of time. Plus, the
> wiki says that the discs must be  "protected by AACS MKB version 10 or
> lower, and not protected by BD+ "  - I have no idea what that means or how
> to figure that out.
>
> My fault for not researching things a bit further before diving in, but IMHO
> there really should be disclaimers on features like these.
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I just rip them using makemkv
(http://www.makemkv.com/forum2/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=224) and play them
without any previews and demos and other crap.
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