Blu-Ray

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Hello,

Does anyone know if there are some development to ease the use of Blu-Ray on linux to watch films?

I bought a Blu-Ray player recently and I have obviously been totally ignorant to the fact that there are codec issues involved, I just thought it would work as any DVD. Silly me!

I did a test with a software called MakeMKV but struggled with having it running, and in any case it would be much more convenient to just use MPlayer, VLC, Xine etc. if possible.

Cheers,
Olav

2

Hi , I used to got it working with XBMC plus plugin which used makemkv as the backend.

Does not work any longer, something must have changed ?!?

cheers

3

Hello otto_oz!

I read the posts you wrote on the topic on this forum but had no luck with running makemkv. Thanks for the effort you put in all the same!

Lets hope it changes to the better in the future (soon).

PS
I tried dumpHD which runs and sees the Blu-Ray disc, and given it had the right code it would perhaps read it as well?

Cheers

4

I installed the new “makemkv”

It crashes at the end of the rip. I will try again to get it working and let you know

cheers

otto_oz

5

Whilst “makemkv” crashes at the end of the rip (no file), streaming (using makemkv as the backend) works.

#!/bin/bash

#
# Cross-Platform Blu-ray Playback Script
# Release 1.0
#
# Depends on having curl, MakeMKV and VLC installed.
#
# Revision History:
#
# 05-OCT-2010:  Initial release.
#

# Is this a Mac?
if  `uname` == "Darwin" ]; then
	MKVPATH="/Applications/MakeMKV.app/Contents/MacOS/"
	VLCPATH="/Applications/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/"
else
	MKVPATH=""
	VLCPATH=""
fi

# Make sure we're not already decoding a disc.
killall makemkvcon

# Start streaming the first Blu-ray drive we find.
${MKVPATH}makemkvcon --upnp=1 --cache=128 stream disc:0 &

# Wait for the streaming server to be ready.
RESULT=1
COUNT=0
while  $RESULT != 0 ]; do
	curl -f http://localhost:51000 -o /dev/null 2> /dev/null
	RESULT=$?
	sleep 1
	# Handle timeouts so we don't leave orphan makemkvcon tasks running.
	(( COUNT=${COUNT} + 1 ))
	if  ${COUNT} == 60 ]; then
		killall makemkvcon
		exit 1
	fi
done

# Tell VLC to play the first title of the disc.
${VLCPATH}vlc http://localhost:51000/stream/title0.ts

# Shut down MakeMKV after VLC closes.
killall makemkvcon

You can change VLC to smplayer, works as well. You need to start the above code in a “Konsole” window.

I do not know if the latest version of “makemkv” supports BD+ encoding. need to go to the makemkv website to find out.

What would be nice if a friendly soul could enhance the above code to allow interactively select the file and audio file.

Have fun

cheers from oz