[pettergulbra]

Hi

I will try to add the possibility to play DVD`s and Blu-Ray`s on my ChromeBox.
So it can be a little bit more wife friendly and I do not have to rip the discs before she can watch them. :-)

I have looked at this:
Samsung SE-506CB/RSBD (https://www.netonnet.no/art/datakomponen...871.11095/)

ASUS SBW-06D2X-U (https://www.komplett.no/product/751699/d...52E5984D4D)

Samsung SE-506AB (http://www.clasohlson.com/no/Samsung-eks...rofilering)

Is one of these possible to work with KodiBuntu, and show my DVD`s and Blu-Ray`s.

Petter

[pettergulbra]

Will KodiBuntu load a Blu-Ray player at all. Or is this really just an dead question?

[DaVu]

In theory it is. If the device is detected fine and supported your discs will be played....

But!!! Linux isn't capable to play encrypted BR's. BRs are copy protected and Linux can't decrypt then out of the box because the lack of licenses. You have to make a workaround for that using the MakeMKV plugin.

Read this for more information:

http://lifehacker.com/5621471/how-to-ena...ck-in-xbmc

I never used this, but it might help you.

DVDs are working fine out of the box, btw.

[pettergulbra]

Thanks for that.

Then I just have to order one, and test if it will work nicely enough. If not, DVD has to do it, in this digital times.

[icebaer]

You might also try this solution:
Direct Blu-ray playback with VLC

Worked on my machine

[pettergulbra]

icebaer: thanx for info. I will look at it when the player comes :-)

[theslime]

I have the Asus Bluray player in your link, and it works with Kodibuntu on Chromebox using MakeMKV as a backend and addon. It's not perfect (I didn't get menus), but it works. I haven't tried any other ways.

[pettergulbra]

That sounds nice.

I have borrowed an DVD external just to test. It`s an Samsung.
Tested it once, did not get any "play disc" menu.
Could not find the files either, I found the name of the dvd under files, but just
the normal catalogs of Linux (var,usr etc). Found one "cd-rom" but there was no files.

[theslime]

It should be automatically mounted under /media, and the title of the folder will match the volume name of the disc. E.g. /media/TWIN_PEAKS_D1. If it's not, your disc isn't mounted, for whatever reason, which may be a driver issue or something else entirely.

I hadn't set up bluray playback since my last reinstall, but I tried yesterday and it's easier than ever. All DVDs and simple blurays with old copy protection should work out of the box. For more recent blurays, you need to install MakeMKV and delete three library files and create two symlinks to the corresponding MakeMKV library. I'll link to it later today when I'm on my laptop.

[theslime]

What I did, step by step. (You can disregard the MakeMKV addon bit I linked to in my first post, it's not needed anymore since the regular Play disc Kodi command will use the MakeMKV if they're correctly there).

1. Install MakeMKV

Code:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:heyarje/makemkv-beta
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install makemkv-bin makemkv-oss

2. Prevent libaacs0 from updates (since it will overwrite what you do in step 3 on every update)

Code:

sudo apt-mark hold libaacs0

(This is not an elegant solution, but I think it's necessary. It's at least better than removing the package, since it's a dependency of Kodi.)

3. Remove libaacs libraries and replace them with the MakeMKV ones:
Remove libs in /usr/lib:

Code:

cd /usr/lib
sudo rm libaacs.so.0
sudo rm libbdplus.so.0

...and in the subfolder ...linux-gnu:

Code:

cd /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ # if on 64-bit, which I assume you are
sudo rm libaacs.so.*

Symlink the MakeMKV library so it's picked up by Kodi:

Code:

cd /usr/lib
sudo ln -s libmmbd.so.0 libaacs.so.0
sudo ln -s libmmbd.so.0 libbdplus.so.0

(You don't have to put a symlink in the x86_64-linux-gnu folder, at least I didn't have to.)

It might stop working every 60 days, in that case you will need to input the MakeMKV licence key. Use the key from the official forums.

[pettergulbra]

Thanks. I will look into this soon.

And I will hear back again.

:-)