playing Blu-Ray discs

[Waitman Gobble]

On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 3:01 PM, C. P. Ghost <cpghost at cordula.ws> wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 3:47 PM, krad <kraduk at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> you are onto a looser as not even linux can do bluerays properly. Its to
>> do
>> with player licensing, DRM and opensource incompatibilities.
>>
>
> You need to remove the DRM with tools like Slysoft's AnyDVD-HD,
> which, unfortunately, runs only under Windows. You may want to try
> it under Wine, but I don't know whether it's been successfully done or
> not.
>
>
>>
>> On 9 November 2014 10:17, Waitman Gobble <gobble.wa at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > Anyone have pointers on playing Blu-Ray discs using FreeBSD?
>> >
>> > I installed /multimedia/libbluray from ports. This solved a problem of
>> > inserted discs spinning forever until the end of time (and actually
>> > blocking the entire system). But playing the disc does not seem to work
>> w/
>> > mplayer or xine.
>> >
>> > Thanks
>> >
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Thanks for the info. I notice the sysutils/udfclient can read the disk
structure. I've forked and updated https://github.com/williamdevries/UDF
for 11.0-Current, will see if that gets me anywhere.

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