Re: [Hampshire] Blu Ray and Linux

2011-12-23 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
On Dec 23, 2011 9:29 PM, "Jim Kissel" wrote: > > > Thanks for the heads up on Blu Ray, a technology that I will let pass me by I would let it pass me by if i had the choice! Fortunately, i can always reverse engineer the host key if i need it in future, which makes the whole drm useless anyway. I

Re: [Hampshire] Blu Ray and Linux

2011-12-23 Thread Jim Kissel
Thanks for the heads up on Blu Ray, a technology that I will let pass me by James Courtier-Dutton wrote: On 4 December 2011 21:24, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: I now have a Blu Ray drive for my Linux machine. DumpHD does not work on any modern titles due to an out of date host private key.

Re: [Hampshire] Blu Ray and Linux

2011-12-23 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
On 4 December 2011 21:24, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: > > I now have a Blu Ray drive for my Linux machine. > DumpHD does not work on any modern titles due to an out of date host > private key. > MakeMKV does seem to work, but it is a binary blob and not open source > and you have to pay for it pa

Re: [Hampshire] Blu Ray and Linux

2011-12-10 Thread Peter Salisbury
On 9 December 2011 17:55, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: > On 4 December 2011 21:40, John Cooper wrote: >> On 04/12/11 21:24, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: >>> >>> I now have a Blu Ray drive for my Linux machine. >>> DumpHD does not work on any modern titles due to an out of date host >>> private ke

Re: [Hampshire] Blu Ray and Linux

2011-12-09 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
On 4 December 2011 21:40, John Cooper wrote: > On 04/12/11 21:24, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: >> >> I now have a Blu Ray drive for my Linux machine. >> DumpHD does not work on any modern titles due to an out of date host >> private key. >> MakeMKV does seem to work, but it is a binary blob and no

Re: [Hampshire] Blu Ray and Linux

2011-12-04 Thread John Cooper
On 04/12/11 21:24, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: I now have a Blu Ray drive for my Linux machine. DumpHD does not work on any modern titles due to an out of date host private key. MakeMKV does seem to work, but it is a binary blob and not open source and you have to pay for it past 30 days trial.

Re: [Hampshire] Blu Ray and Linux

2011-12-04 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
On 18 September 2011 03:43, Ian Grody wrote: > Im more surprised people don't use google. > > Took me two mins to concoct MakeMKV and DumpHD. The latter actually working. > > Blueray playback linux > > I dont watch much movies, just use the drive for backups. But thought heck to > it! > > DumpHD e

Re: [Hampshire] Blu Ray and Linux

2011-09-17 Thread Ian Grody
Im more surprised people don't use google. Took me two mins to concoct MakeMKV and DumpHD. The latter actually working. Blueray playback linux I dont watch much movies, just use the drive for backups. But thought heck to it! DumpHD even provide a lengthy list of keys to use to decrypt your blu

Re: [Hampshire] Blu Ray and Linux

2011-09-17 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
On 17 September 2011 11:25, Kevin Bagust wrote: > On 17/09/11 08:03, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: >> >> Does anyone actually have a blu-ray drive and have it working in Linux >> to watch movies on their Linux PC? > > Have a look at a program called MakeMKV, which will allow you to rip the > blu-ra

Re: [Hampshire] Blu Ray and Linux

2011-09-17 Thread Kevin Bagust
On 17/09/11 08:03, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: Does anyone actually have a blu-ray drive and have it working in Linux to watch movies on their Linux PC? Have a look at a program called MakeMKV, which will allow you to rip the blu-ray to an mkv file which is playable on linux. The web site is

Re: [Hampshire] Blu Ray and Linux

2011-09-17 Thread James Bensley
On 17 September 2011 10:54, Samuel Penn wrote: > Last time I checked, it seemed to be the case that you could read/write > blu-ray on Linux, however playing films was limited to those films for > which encryption had been broken. That was some years ago though. I was thinking a similar thing; Th

Re: [Hampshire] Blu Ray and Linux

2011-09-17 Thread Samuel Penn
On Saturday 17 September 2011 08:03:39 James Courtier-Dutton wrote: > Does anyone actually have a blu-ray drive and have it working in Linux > to watch movies on their Linux PC? I can't help you, but I would be very interested in hearing about how you get it working if you do. Last time I checked

[Hampshire] Blu Ray and Linux

2011-09-17 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Hi, Does anyone have experience with using Blu Ray on Linux? Blu Ray is a bit of a dead duck. It does not suit my use case at all well. I wish to have a server on my home network that acts as the media store. It will have inputs from DVB-S, DVB-T, DVDs, Youtube, iplayer. I have tested all those a