2008-03-02, 13:55
We will let you discuss this here as long as you do not discuss anything illegal. You may only discuss playback of Blu-ray under Linux with open source software as a general topic, meaning not specific to XBMC, the discussion here should be just as well pointed to MPlayer, VLC, Xine, or a other open source video-player for Linux, (I say Linux because if we can get it working on Linux first then it can be ported to Mac OS X and Windows operating-systems later).
For encrypted Blu-ray playback some other third-party project/programmers would have to write an open source 'DeDRM' library capable of AACS decryption and BD+ decryption on-the-fly (which are the Digital Rights Management schemes that Blu-ray uses), similar to how XBMC today use DeCSS to decrypt CSS (Content-Scrambling System) encrypted DVD-Video movies. Team-XBMC will not develop a such library from scratch.
NOTE! Finally, there will be no discussion about key-sharing/distribution in these forums!
PS! For unencrypted Blu-ray playback go lobby the FFmpeg project (as XBMC uses FFmpeg's open source video/audio decoders and container demuxers), see:
http://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=Codec_and_Format_requests
For encrypted Blu-ray playback some other third-party project/programmers would have to write an open source 'DeDRM' library capable of AACS decryption and BD+ decryption on-the-fly (which are the Digital Rights Management schemes that Blu-ray uses), similar to how XBMC today use DeCSS to decrypt CSS (Content-Scrambling System) encrypted DVD-Video movies. Team-XBMC will not develop a such library from scratch.
NOTE! Finally, there will be no discussion about key-sharing/distribution in these forums!
PS! For unencrypted Blu-ray playback go lobby the FFmpeg project (as XBMC uses FFmpeg's open source video/audio decoders and container demuxers), see:
http://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=Codec_and_Format_requests