playing Blu-Ray discs

Waitman Gobble gobble.wa at gmail.com
Tue Nov 18 05:03:02 UTC 2014


On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 8:47 PM, Adrian Chadd <adrian at freebsd.org> wrote:

> Hey!
>
> Cool! Would you mind posting a bug with the patches attached? It seems
> a bit daft to have the UDF support not at least mount bluray disks out
> of the box..
>
>
>
> -adrian
>
>
> On 17 November 2014 08:10, Waitman Gobble <gobble.wa at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 8:17 PM, Waitman Gobble <gobble.wa at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 8:01 PM, Waitman Gobble <gobble.wa at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> 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
> >>>>> >
> >>>>> > --
> >>>>> > Waitman Gobble
> >>>>> > Los Altos California USA
> >>>>> > 510-830-7975
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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.
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> Waitman Gobble
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> >>> 510-830-7975
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >> The updated UDF kernel source seems to work with 11.0-Current. Moves me
> a
> >> little forward :)
> >>
> >> #1 using existing UDF driver:
> >>
> >> [1019] > mount_udf /dev/cd0 /br
> >> mount_udf: /dev/cd0: Invalid argument
> >>
> >> #2 using 'new' UDF driver:
> >>
> >> [1020] > mount_udf2 /dev/cd0 /br
> >> [1021] > cd /br
> >> [1022] > ls
> >> AACS            BDMV            CERTIFICATE
> >> [1023] >
> >>
> >> I'll post the code if anyone else wants to tinker with it.
> >>
> >> Now to see about actually playing the disc...
> >>
> >> --
> >> Waitman Gobble
> >> Los Altos California USA
> >> 510-830-7975
> >>
> >
> >
> > Updated src patches are available at https://github.com/waitman/UDF
> >
> > Curiously on the xfce4 desktop I now get a little icon of a disc that is
> > 'named' the title of the Blu-Ray. So that's something new.
> >
> > I notice one caveat, 'mplayer bd://' without any other switches assumes
> > that your disc is mounted at /mnt/bd and that your KEYDB.cfg is in
> > ~/.dvdcss/
> >
> > Also it's possible to run the Linux 32 bit ./aacskeys /mnt/bd
> > (with the Linux compatibility port installed)
> >
> > I think it may work if I buy a Blu-Ray disc that is 'popular'. ie, the
> keys
> > are published. I only have a few and they are 'niche' disks that are
> > probably not mainstream. (for example 'the stone roses, made of stone').
> > Maybe I'll buy a copy of 'the matrix' or something and see if that will
> > play. :)
> >
> > Also it seems there are existing tools that 'figure' out the keys, maybe
> > I'll try that when I get a chance, but if a 'popular' disc actually
> plays.
> >
> > --
> > Waitman Gobble
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Hey Adrian,

sure, will do in a bit.


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Waitman Gobble
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