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beandog Bodhisattva
Joined: 04 May 2003 Posts: 2072 Location: /usa/utah
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BitJam Advocate
Joined: 12 Aug 2003 Posts: 2508 Location: Silver City, NM
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Posted: Sun Jun 13, 2010 10:13 pm Post subject: Suggestions on which Blu-Ray drive to get? |
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Looking over on NewEgg they had a couple of drives for as low as $64 (if you include shipping). I was wondering "what's wrong with these drives" so I started doing a little digging. It seems that the ASUS requires you to run a .exe program in order to update the firmware. Other drives that cost more, such as the Samsung, allow you to update the firmware by simply burning a cd-rom and then putting it in the drive which is totally OS agnostic.
It might be possible via FreeDOS or Wine to run the darned exe file but ISTM I would be better off supporting companies who are trying to make life a little easier for Linux users. |
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Tariella Guru
Joined: 10 Dec 2005 Posts: 384 Location: Europe/Austria
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Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2010 9:12 am Post subject: |
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I had my LG drive patched by a friend with win system, but there are reports that it works with wine too.
Patching the firmware is not necessary with MakeMKV, afaik. |
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1clue Advocate
Joined: 05 Feb 2006 Posts: 2569
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Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2010 4:24 pm Post subject: |
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I learned a long time ago to never buy the cheapest example of any hardware. Usually the same thing goes for the most expensive example (especially with video cards and such), they tend to be bleeding edge and therefore buggy.
Look at the scattering of prices for a certain capacity, chop off the bottom clutter and possibly the top cluster, and then pick something from what's left based on your needs. |
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Tariella Guru
Joined: 10 Dec 2005 Posts: 384 Location: Europe/Austria
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PraetorZero Apprentice
Joined: 11 Dec 2004 Posts: 239 Location: /home
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Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2010 1:48 pm Post subject: |
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Have you tried this yet? Is it a full featured player? ie, menus, etc? Or does it just pull up the main title, decrypt and playback? _________________ What's the worst that can happen? |
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Tariella Guru
Joined: 10 Dec 2005 Posts: 384 Location: Europe/Austria
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Posted: Wed Jun 23, 2010 5:13 pm Post subject: |
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I'm going to test it next week. Right now I have to prepare for an exam.
If I get something to work I'll let you know. |
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antonlacon Apprentice
Joined: 27 Jun 2004 Posts: 257
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Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 12:29 am Post subject: |
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beandog wrote: | I just added media-video/aacskeys to the portage tree. Lemme know if you guys have any problems building it. |
If you change the java depend to virtual/jdk:1.6, it would allow it to build and run on ppc + ppc64. It built for me just fine on a ps3 using IBM's jdk, but it looks like the hypervisor is keeping access of one of the keys from me. Haven't checked out how that change would affect other arches. |
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BitJam Advocate
Joined: 12 Aug 2003 Posts: 2508 Location: Silver City, NM
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Posted: Fri Aug 20, 2010 8:04 pm Post subject: |
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Just watched the Avatar Blu-ray. Installed an ASUS BR-04B2T Blu-ray drive ($50 + free shipping from NewEgg). Used MakeMKV-1.5.8. Updated an older ebuild. Had to remove "_beta" in four places. I couldn't stream from the command-line version, makemkvcon, probably because I haven't bought it and am on the 30-day free trial. Was easy to setup streaming via the GUI.
Streamed to SMplayer with VDPAU enabled. Used an Nvidia 8400 graphics card and a 1920x1200 24" monitor. Running amd64 with an Athlon x2 5200+ processor. The CPU was running at about 30% with the clock scaled back (via OnDemand governor) to 1.0 GHz down from a max of 2.7 GHz.
Of course the picture quality was marvelous but there were a lot of annoying video artifacts. Every few minutes there would be a pixelated horizontal strip across the video for a split second where it looked like the decompression failed. I don't know what part of the processing chain was failing. It usually happened when there was a lot going on in the screen and when the entire scene was supposed to change.
I went to the Nvidia support forums and got rid of the video artifacts by following their advice and running mplayer directly via: Code: | $ mplayer -vo vdpau -vc ffh264vdpau -demuxer lavf 'http://localhost:51000/stream/title0.ts' |
Probably some of that is not needed, but I'm very glad to have it working now without all the artifacts.
There were no subtitles in the stream. Does anyone know how to enable subtitles either by streaming or by ripping? Streaming would be preferred. |
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whig l33t
Joined: 27 Nov 2004 Posts: 973 Location: New Zealand
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Posted: Fri Aug 20, 2010 8:48 pm Post subject: |
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Recent mplayer-9999 does do bluray subtitles but not perfectly. |
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BitJam Advocate
Joined: 12 Aug 2003 Posts: 2508 Location: Silver City, NM
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Posted: Sat Aug 21, 2010 7:49 am Post subject: |
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I've found an easy to stream blu-rays with your choice of subtitles and languages using makemkv and xbmc: Code: | $ makemkvcon stream disc:0
$ xbmc 'http://localhost:51000/stream/title0.m2ts' |
I'm using xbmc-9.11-r4 with the vdpau USE flag enabled. XBMC gives you access to all the languages and subtitles!
I had been giving makemkvcon "/dev/sr1" instead of "disc:0" which is why it wasn't working before. It was PEBKAC, and nothing to do with paying or not paying. But I think you might have to use the GUI version the first time in order to turn on your 30-day free trial.
There is a blu-ray plugin for XBMC that runs makemkvcon for you automatically, but I (of course) had problems with it and XBMC locked up. When you run makemkvcon as above, make sure to read the final two lines of output, which for me said: Code: | Streaming server started, web server address is http://192.168.1.33:51000 or http://localhost:51000
UPnP server enabled on address 192.168.1.33 |
If you are mucking about, it might use a different port number. You also might want to browse to the URL given to find out which title contains the actual movie. It might not always be title0.
Update:The Blu-ray plugin for XBMC (version 9.11) is working great now. No need to use the command line fu above. You can have it automatically play the longest title on a disc or browse a disc to play any or all of the titles. The titles don't have names but you are given the order and the length of each title. You still need to install makemkv but the UI is all through the XMBC GUI. |
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johnny99 Apprentice
Joined: 24 Oct 2005 Posts: 249 Location: Berkeley, California
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Posted: Thu Dec 23, 2010 5:05 pm Post subject: |
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Are ebuilds for this stuff yet?
Seems like popular candidates.
As my system updates, I end up breaking dependencies (makemkvcon was built against libcrypto.so.0.9..
I don't see any bugs file in https://bugs.gentoo.org
Can this stuff get into portage? |
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BitJam Advocate
Joined: 12 Aug 2003 Posts: 2508 Location: Silver City, NM
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Posted: Thu Dec 23, 2010 5:48 pm Post subject: |
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Here is the ebuild I've been using for makemkv: Code: | # Copyright 1999-2009 Gentoo Foundation
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
# $Header: $
EAPI=2
inherit multilib eutils
MY_P="makemkv_v${PV}_oss"
MY_PB="makemkv_v${PV}_bin"
DESCRIPTION="Tool for converting Blu-Ray, HD-DVD and DVD videos to matroska."
HOMEPAGE="http://www.makemkv.com"
SRC_URI="http://www.makemkv.com/download/makemkv_v${PV}_oss.tar.gz
http://www.makemkv.com/download/makemkv_v${PV}_bin.tar.gz"
LICENSE="makemkv-EULA"
SLOT="0"
KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86"
IUSE=""
DEPEND="x11-libs/qt-gui:4
dev-libs/openssl
media-libs/mesa"
src_compile() {
cd "${MY_P}"
emake GCC="$(tc-getCC) ${CFLAGS} ${LDFLAGS}" -f makefile.linux || die "make failed"
}
src_install() {
# install oss package
cd "${MY_P}"
dolib.so out/libdriveio.so.0
dolib.so out/libmakemkv.so.1
dosym libdriveio.so.0 /usr/$(get_libdir)/libdriveio.so.0.${PV}
dosym libmakemkv.so.1 /usr/$(get_libdir)/libmakemkv.so.1.${PV}
into /usr
dobin out/makemkv
newicon makemkvgui/src/img/128/mkv_icon.png ${PN}.png
make_desktop_entry ${PN} "MakeMKV" ${PN} "Qt;AudioVideo;Video"
# install bin package
cd "../${MY_PB}/bin"
if use x86; then
dobin i386/makemkvcon
elif use amd64; then
dobin amd64/makemkvcon
fi
} |
Usually you just have to bump the version number when a new version is released. Currently I'm at makemkv-1.6.3.ebuild. |
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johnny99 Apprentice
Joined: 24 Oct 2005 Posts: 249 Location: Berkeley, California
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Posted: Thu Dec 23, 2010 6:03 pm Post subject: |
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Great! I found the bug for makemkv:
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=280347
What is the eclasses for makemkv (media-lib, media-tv, media-video)?
It provides libs and an executable, so I'm not sure. |
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BitJam Advocate
Joined: 12 Aug 2003 Posts: 2508 Location: Silver City, NM
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Posted: Thu Dec 23, 2010 6:24 pm Post subject: |
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I use media-video. BTW: the ebuild in the bug report is much better than the one I posted. |
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PraetorZero Apprentice
Joined: 11 Dec 2004 Posts: 239 Location: /home
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Posted: Thu Dec 23, 2010 6:52 pm Post subject: |
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johnny99 wrote: | Are ebuilds for this stuff yet?
Seems like popular candidates.
As my system updates, I end up breaking dependencies (makemkvcon was built against libcrypto.so.0.9..
I don't see any bugs file in https://bugs.gentoo.org
Can this stuff get into portage? |
MakeMKV exists in the multimedia overlay, FYI. _________________ What's the worst that can happen? |
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BitJam Advocate
Joined: 12 Aug 2003 Posts: 2508 Location: Silver City, NM
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Posted: Thu Dec 23, 2010 7:16 pm Post subject: |
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The latest version I see in my multimedia overlay is 1.5.8. The latest release is version 1.6.3. |
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Chr0nos Apprentice
Joined: 26 Feb 2010 Posts: 205
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Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2010 11:29 am Post subject: |
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yup, and the overlay fail:
Code: | >>> Emerging (1 of 1) media-video/makemkv-1.5.8 from multimedia
>>> Downloading 'http://www.makemkv.com/download/makemkv_v1.5.8_oss.tar.gz'
--2010-12-30 12:26:43-- http://www.makemkv.com/download/makemkv_v1.5.8_oss.tar.gz
Résolution de www.makemkv.com... 195.248.234.93
Connexion vers www.makemkv.com|195.248.234.93|:80...connecté.
requête HTTP transmise, en attente de la réponse...404 Not Found
2010-12-30 12:26:43 ERREUR 404: Not Found.
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BitJam Advocate
Joined: 12 Aug 2003 Posts: 2508 Location: Silver City, NM
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Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2010 11:38 am Post subject: |
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It failed because the source/binaries for the older version are no longer available. Try copying the ebuild to your local overlay and just bump the version number to 1.6.3. If that doesn't work, you can use the ebuild I posted which has been working fine. |
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gkmac Guru
Joined: 19 Jan 2003 Posts: 333 Location: West Sussex, UK
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Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2011 6:16 pm Post subject: |
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Tariella wrote: | The processing keys for discs with MKB V9 ans MKB V10 are found. I can't link them but have a look at the doom9 forums to get them. |
Two and a half years later, the processing keys up to MKB v25 are now out in the wild. Again, the doom9 forums are the place to begin looking. _________________ If ~amd64 ebuilds are cutting edge, then git-9999 ebuilds are chainsaws.
"Not everyone can ride a unicycle, does that mean we should put another wheel on it?" - Lokheed |
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cord Guru
Joined: 28 Apr 2007 Posts: 344
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Posted: Tue Dec 27, 2011 7:03 pm Post subject: Re: Blu-Ray (on gentoo) how-to [solved with MakeMKV, WIP] |
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First post:
Tariella wrote: |
ad2. Note that tsMuxeR is not in portage.
You can use the windows-version with wine
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It already is.
You don't need wine anymore. |
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Tariella Guru
Joined: 10 Dec 2005 Posts: 384 Location: Europe/Austria
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Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2012 10:04 am Post subject: |
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Thanks for the info.
Posting updated. |
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