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Comment on HowTo: Encode a Blu-ray rip into a smaller format without losing quality by Thomas C.

Thomas C. — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 20:25:07 +0000

Hi!

Thanks for your nice script..

I hacked it a little bit, becouse I had no space to copy the file to a writeable folder.

woth my version you can give the full file as input and optionally a folder for output.

http://pastebin.com/9TUu94pE

Regards!
Thomas

Comment on HowTo: Rip a Blu-ray movie using an LG GGC-H20L Blu-ray drive with Ubuntu by HyRax

HyRax — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 20:51:44 +0000

They don’t. That’s why manufacturers of player software must release updates to their software with new player keys which the end user downloads and installs manually. It’s why all consumer hardware Blu-Ray players are firmware updateable. It’s why the PS3′s firmware updates also include updated keys for the BD player component.

However if you have a BD drive running hacked firmware that ignores the Player’s certificate, blacklisted or not, then it becomes irrelevant and you can concentrate on the task of reading the disc.

Comment on HowTo: Rip a Blu-ray movie using an LG GGC-H20L Blu-ray drive with Ubuntu by Joe

Joe — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 19:31:48 +0000

How do non-networked blu-ray players get updated when their keys are blacklisted?

Comment on HowTo: Fix MythTV’s Frontend not going full-screen in Ubuntu Jaunty. by Jason

Jason — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 19:53:42 +0000

Thanks, this was exactly what I was looking for.

Comment on Mini-review: LG GGC-H20L Super Multi Blue Blu-ray Disc & HD DVD-ROM Drive on Ubuntu by HyRax

HyRax — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 20:29:06 +0000

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.

Comment on Mini-review: LG GGC-H20L Super Multi Blue Blu-ray Disc & HD DVD-ROM Drive on Ubuntu by Martin

Martin — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 17:26:30 +0000

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

Comment on HowTo: Fix being unable to click in Flash applications in Ubuntu 64-bit by Tony

Tony — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 23:04:38 +0000

Wow, this has been bugging me for months now! Thanks!

Comment on HowTo: Encode a Blu-ray rip into a smaller format without losing quality by Donald

Donald — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 23:16:13 +0000

Hi,

I found the options =>
b_pyramid=none, b_pyramid=strict and
b_pyramid=normal

I used “normal” and it worked.

Thanks for the help.

Comment on HowTo: Get an Ubuntu Live CD to boot off a PXE server by Z3r0

Z3r0 — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 09:14:36 +0000

You my friend, are a hero.

Comment on HowTo: Encode a Blu-ray rip into a smaller format without losing quality by HyRax

HyRax — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 02:33:00 +0000

The version of MEncoder supplied with Ubuntu Lucid has had some of its parameters changed, and this is why your encode is failing. The “b_pyramid” parameter no longer accepts the argument used in the script and needs to be changed (b_pyramid now has options!). Check MEncoder’s man page for the possible arguments to use here and substitute accordingly, eg: b_pyramid=option.

I’ll make a note about it in the article later.