Comments on: HowTo: Use lxbdplayer – the Open Source Blu-Ray Disc player for Linux

By: Gabriel

Gabriel — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 17:44:03 +0000

Hi folks, I have an HTPC setup running Ubuntu 10.04 LTS and XBMC. I have a Panasonic-Matshita UJ-240 optical drive and I was wondering if anyone got this drive working and if yes, how long it takes to load a bluray disc using this approach.

I’m looking forward to know how long it takes (in average) to have the disc loaded and film start playing for linux folks that have this setup working.

Thx!

By: HyRax

HyRax — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 23:53:34 +0000

Sounds like you are not using hardware acceleration to decode the video. Make sure you are using an recent NVidia-based graphics card to offload the decoding work to.

By: Geoff T

Geoff T — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 13:29:14 +0000

Successfully installed this now but the films are very slow and sometimes stop and start. How do I fix this problem?

By: HyRax

HyRax — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 21:11:44 +0000

Oh, you can get copies of the keys – if you pay lots and lots of money for them.

A BD Optical Drive is simply a device to access BD media – it is NOT a license to watch movies, much like a car is a means to get you around but does not give you the right to use public roads without a driver’s license.

The keys you require are for decrypting encoded movies on the BD media. The Windows software that comes with your drive you’ve actually paid for (as part of the cost of your drive) – it’s licensed software for playing movies, but it won’t work forever as the keys are constantly updated, forcing you to have to get updated software with new keys.

In the Linux World, someone has to pay for the licensing of the keys, and so far no-one has. The keys you are using now have been discovered though traditional hacking methods. As new keys are found, they are added to AACSKeys’ database.

By: rwogg

rwogg — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 20:41:46 +0000

Where are you supposed to get these keys??
I always thought that when you bought the hardware that you should also be getting the “keys” to make it work. The player comes with Windows software. Is there a way to get keys from that?

By: HyRax

HyRax — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 09:49:58 +0000

Your issue with AACSKeys is that there is no decryption key available to decode the BD+ conversion table on the disc. Without that, you cannot decode the movie to play it. Unfortunately some titles you will just not be able to play until decoding keys are found for it, particularly titles released in the last 6-12 months.

Your issue with MakeMKV is that you don’t have a valid activation key to run the app. You need to buy one.

By: rwogg

rwogg — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 07:20:18 +0000

I am looking to play Blu-ray movies in Linux Mint 10. I bought an ASUS External Slim Blu-ray Writer. I installed everything that the site told me to download and install. I used the GDebi installer to install them. The player sees the disk and all the chapters. Everything seems to work OK except movies don’t play. Regular DVDs play fine, no problem, but I don’t need a Blu-ray hardware player for that.

Running “lxdbplayer” on the command line shows errors and give this output:
rwo@rwo-Lenovo-G555 ~ $ lxbdplayer
Charging plugin … AACSDecrypt (based on DumpHD) : original author KenD00DumpHD (Mod) 0.01 Beta Original Author : KenD00

Opening Key Data File… OK
Initializing AACS… OK
Loading BDVM… FAILED
bdvm.vm.BDVM
Automatic BD+ removal disabled, specify a Conversion Table manually to remove BD+ if necessary

Start time: Fri Apr 08 15:57:50 CDT 2011

Checking source…
Source path: /media/DROPZONE
Initializing source…
Disc type found: Blu-Ray BDMV
Collecting input files…
Source initialized
Identifying source…
Identifying disc… OK
DiscID : 7FBB40E6B682D140A32266831B91C663E9513184
Searching disc in key database…Disc not found in key database
You Are in Linux : DumpKey From MakeMkv… Please Wait it’s maybe long
This disc cannot be decrypt
Finished identifying source
mplayer: could not connect to socket
MPlayer 1.0rc4-4.4.5 (C) 2000-2010 MPlayer Team
mplayer: No such file or directory

Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.
Playing -.
PID :11856
DumpHDMod PID :11856
Reading from stdin…
Cannot seek backward in linear streams!

Exiting… (End of file)

End of lxbdplayer output

Running “makemkv” on the command line gives this error message:
“The stored activation key is invalid. I guess someone tampered with settings… Please purcase an activation key if you’ve found this application useful.”

By: HyRax

HyRax — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 21:48:18 +0000

Have you patched your drive? None of this will work without patching your drive’s firmware to bypass the player certificate authentication.

By: hofi

hofi — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 13:53:17 +0000

i mean pablo sry

By: hofi

hofi — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 13:52:24 +0000

hi, same problem as josep. i can see the titles but i can’t play them… new ideas?

greets hofi