[mythtv-users] Can MythTV play blu-rays?

Kevin Johnson dabears_rule at yahoo.com
Wed Jun 27 14:50:52 UTC 2012


On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 8:12 AM, Paul Gardiner <lists at glidos.net> wrote:
> On 26/06/2012 20:13, Ronald Frazier wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 2:59 PM, Matt Emmott <memmott at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I assume you somehow have AnyDVD set to auto-export only the main title
>>> so
>>> none of the special features / menus are available to Myth, correct?
>>
>>
>> AnyDVD sits as a device driver between the drive and software, and
>> transparently strips off all of the protection mechanisms. So to the
>> software, the disc appears as the complete file hierarchy minus the
>> DRM. It would then be up to the software to determine and playback
>> individual tracks. Myth picks one track to play by default (not sure
>> how it chooses...first track, longest track, etc), and then you can
>> use the myth OSD menu to switch between tracks.
>
>
> So we want AnyDVD for linux. That would be a really clean solution. I
> wonder if the MakeMKV people are working on a device-driver mode of
> operation.

There is an xbmc addon that uses makemkv to stream blurays which is
then picked up by the player (at least I think that's how it works, it
certainly uses makemkv)

It is written in python, so it should be clear enough :)

https://github.com/abultman/plugin.makemkvbluray


And it works great.
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