Comments on: Mini-review: LG GGC-H20L Super Multi Blue Blu-ray Disc & HD DVD-ROM Drive on Ubuntu http://www.serenux.com/2009/01/mini-review-lg-ggc-h20l-super-multi-blue-blu-ray-disc-hd-dvd-rom-drive-on-ubuntu/ Life, the Universe and Ubuntu. Wed, 18 Jan 2012 12:38:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: HyRax http://www.serenux.com/2009/01/mini-review-lg-ggc-h20l-super-multi-blue-blu-ray-disc-hd-dvd-rom-drive-on-ubuntu/comment-page-1/#comment-1056 HyRax Wed, 16 Jun 2010 20:29:06 +0000 http://www.serenux.com/?p=355#comment-1056 Well... no. Like it or not, BD's are encrypted by the movie production houses for the purpose of copy-protection, so they have to be decrypted to play them. It's what any consumer player already has to do. If you simply want to watch the movie off the disc without keeping a copy of it on your HDD, then there is a way to watch it via piping into DumpHD, but it's far from convenient. MythTV is about to gain BD playback support, but at this stage it appears that the source BD media will still have to be decrypted first. For some people, that may simply mean making a one-off decrypted copy of a given BD title onto a blank BD so that Myth can then play it from disc. Personally, I find HDD storage is cheap, so I'd rather convert my BD titles into an MKV file, put the disc away on the shelf and never touch it again, and watch my movies from a pool of them on a network drive from my file server. Well… no. Like it or not, BD’s are encrypted by the movie production houses for the purpose of copy-protection, so they have to be decrypted to play them. It’s what any consumer player already has to do.

If you simply want to watch the movie off the disc without keeping a copy of it on your HDD, then there is a way to watch it via piping into DumpHD, but it’s far from convenient.

MythTV is about to gain BD playback support, but at this stage it appears that the source BD media will still have to be decrypted first. For some people, that may simply mean making a one-off decrypted copy of a given BD title onto a blank BD so that Myth can then play it from disc. Personally, I find HDD storage is cheap, so I’d rather convert my BD titles into an MKV file, put the disc away on the shelf and never touch it again, and watch my movies from a pool of them on a network drive from my file server.

]]> By: Martin http://www.serenux.com/2009/01/mini-review-lg-ggc-h20l-super-multi-blue-blu-ray-disc-hd-dvd-rom-drive-on-ubuntu/comment-page-1/#comment-1055 Martin Wed, 16 Jun 2010 17:26:30 +0000 http://www.serenux.com/?p=355#comment-1055 I'm a sucker of high definition also. Is there any way in Ubuntu to read BlueRay without the hassle of drecrypting and saving the 20GB of each movie into my hard disk ? I'm now using ubuntu 10. Thanks I’m a sucker of high definition also.
Is there any way in Ubuntu to read BlueRay without the hassle of drecrypting and saving the 20GB of each movie into my hard disk ?

I’m now using ubuntu 10.

Thanks

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