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I welcome myself to the forums!
I just recently discovered the beauty of XBMC and I've been using it for viewing videos..
I've been looking through the forums but I couldn't really find any discusions about thr subject that weren't at least a year old.
I'm planning to skip all the .mkv's in the near future and go blu-ray, all the way.. And the site, from which I get my films, only provide the contained files on the discs.
I mean it's never an image, of any sort, just a folder containing the files included on the blu-ray disc..
Is there any way to add films like this in a library? If not is there any other way to add blu-rays to a library without having to swap discs every time you change your mind about a film?
Regards.
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stabu
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I think its comming in xbmc version 11
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Is this something anyone can confirm or perhaps provide a link to some upcoming changes/change log..
Cheers.
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natethomas
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XBMC can currently read Bluray videos in folder format. Unfortunately, XBMC can't display all the nifty menus that come with bluray videos. So if you click on a bluray movie that is in your library, it'll load your movie straight up, skipping all the extras.
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stabu
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lack of DTS-MA true-HD too.
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So I'm guessing the reason to why Planet Earth won't work is because you have to pick which episode to play via the menus?
And you say that it lacks DTS-MA true-HD too.. I'm not entirely sure what that is but I'm guessing that it's still better than any encoded .mkv?
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MKV is just a container. It can store high bitrate 1080p streams, DTS/DD/DTS-HD/TrueHD audio streams etc. It`s the same thing on a Blu Ray disk, which uses m2ts as the container.
You can rip a Blu Ray disk to the HDD into an MKV container with something like MakeMKV without compression to keep the quality (MakeMKV doesn`t even have an encoder to compress anyway), or use DVD Fab to rip it into a disk structure. XBMC can read both
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You can also just get the main m2ts and remux to mkv. It's without loss in quality of any kind. A remux just changes the container but leaves the AV streams untouched (you could re-encode to FLAC though, which you should if you run Linux and the source is DTS-HD (MA)).
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So I'm guessing the reason to why Planet Earth isn't working is because it's episodes devided and selected by the actual blu-ray meni which isn't working..
Hmm.. When I think about it doesn't even load any information about! Might be the name of the folder, or something.. Looking into it when I get back home..
Cheers for all quick the reply's! ^_^