BluRay playback - More stable method?

Kate Monster

Hi,

I'm a little disappointed with my experiences in Blu Rays with Linux. Out of the 4 Blu Rays I've tried with VLC and libaacs/aacskeys, 2 worked, maybe I'm just having bad luck, but I don't know. Are there non-native methods of playing Blu Rays that work better than VLC? I found that, along with half the blu rays not working, VLC crashed every couple of times I tried to load a disc. So is there anything better out there?

Thistled · Guru Joined: 06 Jan 2011 Posts: 572 Location: Scotland

Hi Kate
There are a few apps out there which claim to play bluray.
Have you tried XBMC?
The following apps have the vdpau flag (which is needed for direct access to the video card):

djdunn · l33t Joined: 26 Dec 2004 Posts: 810

anything that uses the xine backend, like xine-ui would work... i think
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Kate Monster · Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2012 3:05 am Post subject:

but they'll all be using the same libaacs/aacskeys.....won't they?

I'm more interested in non-native at this point. Is it, or is it not possible to play a Bluray with wine/virtualization?

HeissFuss · Guru Joined: 11 Jan 2005 Posts: 414

media-video/makemkv doesn't use libaacs. I haven't had a BD yet it won't work with, and you can stream from it to VLC (or mplayer). You won't get the menu or anything, but you'll have access to the raw ts.

Alternately, you could rip the entire disk to mkv, but it takes some time and a lot of space.

Kate Monster · Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2012 5:07 pm Post subject:

Excellent! Much appreciated, hopefully I will be able to play with that when I get home.