Can't get bluray disk to play

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#1

I’ve tried smplayer, vlc, and kaffeine without any luck on openSUSE
12.3 and 13.1. The disk in question worked OK in Windows 7.

I hear kaffeine is no longer supported so I’m not surprised it doesn’t seem
to have heard of bluray disks.

Vlc came closest in that it actually gave an error message -
“missing AACS configuration file” - but that was it. It also added a
comment that I should look in “the log” but didn’t suggest in which
part of the woodpile I might find this particular log and how I would
recognise it.

I’d added “vlc-codecs” from packman (from whence came “vlc” itself) in
the hope that this might be a solution but it proved not to be so.

–
Graham P Davis, Bracknell, Berks.
openSUSE 12.3 (64-bit); KDE 4.11.3; AMD Phenom II X2 550 Processor;
Kernel: 3.10.0; Video: nVidia GeForce 210 (using nouveau driver);
Sound: ATI SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA); Wireless: BCM4306

#2

It is my opinion you are wasting time messing with blue-ray movies in any version of Linux. Without a doubt, if you want to play a blue-ray disk, get a stand alone DVD player. Else, if you are set on a HTPC, build or buy a Windows based one and use PowerDVD. openSUSE does support blue-ray data disks and thier high capacity. Its encoded movies that does not work and for which I suggest you forget about linux.

Thank You,

#3

On Thu, 28 Nov 2013 15:36:01 GMT
jdmcdaniel3 <jdmcdaniel3@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:

> It is my opinion you are wasting time messing with blue-ray movies in
> any version of Linux. Without a doubt, if you want to play a blue-ray
> disk, get a stand alone DVD player. Else, if you are set on a HTPC,
> build or buy a Windows based one and use PowerDVD. openSUSE does
> support blue-ray data disks and thier high capacity. Its encoded
> movies that does not work and for which I suggest you forget about
> linux.

Thanks, James, but I’ve now found a way to play the Blu-ray disk using
Vlc on Linux. I found the solution here:
http://www.webupd8.org/2012/08/how-to-get-encrypted-blu-rays-working.html
It’s para 2 which describes how to create the missing AACS
configuration file.

Although it worked, it was a bit jerky compared with PowerDVD on
Windows. There are a few other things I need to look at to see if I can
fix that.

As I’ve only one Blu-ray disk - bought in error - I’m a bit loathe to
get a Blu-ray player yet as I’ve got enough electronic gizmos
cluttering up the place already.

–
Graham P Davis, Bracknell, Berks.
openSUSE 12.3 (64-bit); KDE 4.11.3; AMD Phenom II X2 550 Processor;
Kernel: 3.7.6; Video: nVidia GeForce 210 (using nVidia driver);
Sound: ATI SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA); Wireless: BCM4306